The Friday Face-Off: Shop or Market

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: “Who will buy this wonderful morning?” – A cover featuring a shop or market.

For once I had no trouble coming up with a book for the theme. Needful Things by Stephen King is actually about a store called Needful Things, and although it’s been years since I read it, I remember it being a bunch of fun. And being a Stephen King book, there are a ton of covers, so I tried to pick only the good ones:-D Take a look:

Viking/Penguin edition 1991 | UK Paperback 2011

Spanish edition 2009 | German edition 2003

Czech edition 1999 | French edition 2010

French edition 1993 | Chinese edition 2009

This book is tough for me to call, but I’ll try. I actually love the Spanish and German editions, but I’m not crazy about the font on either one. Same goes for the French 2010 edition, I just love the design, but I HATE the font! So I’m going with the UK edition because the font doesn’t make me mad, and I do love the atmospheric colors:

What do you think? Which cover do like best?

Posted March 1, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 26 Comments

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26 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Shop or Market

  1. Great choice. I love your cover and it’s the one that immediately sprang out to me followed closely by the French 2010.
    Lynn πŸ˜€

  2. I actually really like this week’s topic! I totally agree about the French one–great image, not so great font choice. These ones definitely make it a tough call–I like the Viking and Spanish ones as well.

    • Tammy

      Stephen King books always have so many covers, so it’s fun when the theme fits one of his books:-)

  3. What a fabulous response to this week’s theme, Tammy! You definitely have by far the best selection of covers here:)). And I, too, love your favourite, though the 1993 French edition comes a very close second.

    • Tammy

      I do love the French edition, I just wish publishers wouldn’t use such terrible fonts! LOL

    • Tammy

      Me too, I have the Viking edition, so it’s definitely got a sentimental feel to it:-)

  4. Aaron Booth

    I’m with you on this one. The UK cover is pretty beautiful and atmospheric compared to the rest. I may be a tad biased (being from England), but I do think the rest of the world gets far less pretty covers than we do.

    • Tammy

      I have to agree with you Aaron, and I live in the US! I’ve always loved UK publishers’ covers, for some reason:-)

  5. That’s an intriguing title. My choices are the ones you didn’t pick as your faves, so basically I’m your opposite this time, haha. I like the Viking one and the French 1993 one. I guess I like how it almost looks like a normal, quaint shop, but not quite, and they both have that eerie shadow silhouette!
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