The Friday Face-Off: Favorite Book

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: A freebie. Choose one of your favorite titles and compare the covers.

At first I was trying to come up with a favorite book from THIS year. But just about everything I read is so new, there hasn’t been much time for the books to sell internationally and acquire a bunch of cool covers. So I’m choosing a book from my past, pre-blogging, that I absolutely love, A Secret History by Donna Tartt. No doubt if I had actually written a review of this book, it would have received five stars and would be at the top of my “best of the year” list! Luckily, there are plenty of covers to choose from, take a look:

U.S. Knopf edition 1992 | Dutch edition 1999

Portuguese edition 2005 | Dutch edition 2004

Chinese edition 2016 | Spanish edition 1994

Polish edition 2015 | Finnish edition 1996

Slovenian edition 2016 | French edition 1993

This is tough for me to pick my favorite. There are several I love, especially the Slovenian, Finnish and Dutch 2014 editions. But for some reason my eye keeps going back to the Spanish edition:

Have you read The Secret History? Which cover do you like best?

Posted December 28, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 18 Comments

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18 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Favorite Book

  1. Oh, these are all so different and so beautiful! I like the Spanish version, too, but something about the Chinese version is drawing me to it. Our U.S. edition it the most boring, though I still like it. I still need to read this book!

    • Tammy

      I love the Chinese edition too, it’s very bold! Yeah, the US cover is pretty bland compared to the others:-)

    • Tammy

      Yes, I think the classic designs work the best. The story is steeped in that classic feel, which I love!

    • Tammy

      I really like that one too. And yes, it does make sense! Although it doesn’t work quite as well as some of the others, I immediately liked the idea.

  2. I can’t believe I’ve never really taken the time to look at other covers of this books, it’s also one of my all-time favorites! They are all pretty good! I’m rather fond of the U.S. hardcover, but I also like the Spanish, Polish, and Chinese editions (even though the Chinese one seems slightly dramatic). Great choice for this week. 🙂

    • Tammy

      This is the first time I’ve looked at the other covers too! I was surprised how many good ones there are:-)

  3. Oh yes – I completely agree with you – that Spanish cover is gorgeous… I haven’t read Donna Tartt, but I know I should – several of my students are huge fans so I should get hold of this one:).

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