Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover.

I don't know about you, but I LOVE judging books by their covers!!!

Of course, pretty will be in the eye of the beholder. What's pretty to you?

I've got my eye on or


Since TBRs are unique to each reader, I didn't create a Listopia for this.

Too bad I read this year.
This cover is sooooo pretty.

I went with The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.

I'm probably going with Phoenix Extravagant:



Though it's hard to pick just one favorite.


Also, some favorite covers of books I've already read:

I haven't read Untamed yet and I LOVE the cover!!!

That'll be my pick for this one... I wish the glitter parts were real glitter.

I like:

I added Horrid to my TBR solely because of how gorgeous the cover is, so I guess it has to be the winner!

I love pretty covers!

I don't keep a good cohesive TBR list but let's see what I see. Time to find out what I think is pretty...


Own:




Much Better in Person:




Not Yet:





Apparently I think words and lines are pretty.

I'm going to be hilarious and use this one:

I don't even remember putting it on my list (maybe I entered a giveaway), buy anyway, what's prettier than Keanu?!?!

Hmmm perhaps

poshpenny wrote: "Hmmm perhaps "


hahahahaha!!!!

If anyone is looking to acquire a book from your mental TBR and would like a pretty one, here are some to check out


Can you say Penguin?


Penguin Clothbound Classics


Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection


Penguin Christmas Classics


Puffin Hardcover Classics


Puffin in Bloom



Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions


-- the most beautiful edition of Gatsby I have ever seen
Canterbury Classics



MinaLima


Or if you have a large amount of money for books with custom dust jackets (or just the jackets) or you just want your jaw to hit the floor, check out
Juniper Books

Sooooo many choices for me. I admit, covers sell me more than anything else. And there are so many beautiful options from my tbr list:



And so many more. That doesn't even include what I may buy in 2021! This is going to be a really easy one to fill. ^^

Ooh, I've got lots of candidates!



But I might have to hold out for:

poshpenny wrote: "Hmmm perhaps "

Oh, I do like the way you think, posh! :)

Booked 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton
Wonton Terror by Vivien Chien
Voyages of Imagination by Jeff Ayers

Posh— Those Penguin Christmas classics are gorgeous!

UGH I know! I want all the books! I didn't forget these, I just couldn't remember their name. They are gorgeous! They also have matching notebooks. *swoon* It's not too late to add books to our wish lists!



Chiltern Classics


Most of the books I've posted look much better in 3D/larger/better photos than Goodreads shows.

I already read this, but I thought the cover was so beautiful.

Oh hey I just realized I saved the "cover TBR" I made for the QotW a few months ago! Gonna repost it here.

cover tbr:






probably not interested, but amazing covers:

I think the best thing about this thread is seeing all our differences in aesthetics.

I think I want to go with for mine!

This might be my very favorite thread to peruse. 💕

I like this one

Kiran Millwood Hargrave gets the prettiest covers so I will probably go with one of hers:

I really love, and have been collecting, these Thomas Nelson Season's Collection books. So I'll probably read one of these, although I'm too afraid to read the actual books lol

Here's another site from Chiltern with really pretty covers.

I agree with poshpenny. Love those covers! For me, I'll be reading The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I'm really looking forward to reading The Sound of Stars!

I haven’t sifted through my TBR yet to see what all fits this or ugliest cover, but while reorganizing books on one shelf the other day, I did take note of the cover on my edition of Practical Magic (and it’s more striking IRL):

So many options for this one! I might go with one of these:

Lauren wrote: "So many options for this one! I might go with one of these:
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I read Girls of Riyadh this year and enjoyed it

Too many to choose! So I'm restricting it to the TBR I've got for 2021 rather than all my books, and I'm going with The Bear and the Nightingale

poshpenny wrote: "UGH I know! I want all the books! I didn't forget these, I just couldn't remember their name. They are gorgeous! They also have matching notebooks. *swoon* It's not too late to add books to our wis..."

Oh my god, I saw these in a bookshop recently and they are utterly stunning. Wish I was rich 😭

These are just a few, but I think at the end Paperweight (the last one) is my favourite 😍

The cover of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh really caught my eye.

Oh dear. After a year of doing NOTHING but sitting at home, I had a bit more money than usual. Online Christmas shopping has led me to order way too many books, for others and for myself.

Who on Earth knows what I'll end up with here.

Who here doesn’t know that feeling, lol? The enablers on this site don’t help. I do wish Amazon would go back to shrink wrapping books together to protect the covers instead of tossing them into the box haphazardly. One for my niece arrived with a bent corner.

Here’s hoping your new books will be with you soon. I ordered one last month that has been touring the country. It was in my city, then decided to visit Tennessee. After a couple days in Illinois, it returned to Wisconsin, but then went off to Chicago. As of yesterday it was supposedly back in Wisconsin and is to be here today—unless it suddenly decides to head west or maybe to Canada this time. Gotta live the competency of the USPS some days! 🙄 😐 🤣

Wow I hope it took pictures.

I had the opposite problem with packaging this year, I wanted to support some independents so I did a few of my pre-orders with Goldsboro Books and they really overdo their packaging. Like I can understand if you bought a rare first edition, but just new books came wrapped in metres of bubble wrap, in a big box and they put plastic wrappers round the dust jackets too. It's actually put me off using them again because I don't like that amount of waste. Most books are fine in a card sleeve, I think it's more how the packer treats them when putting them in said sleeve, and I doubt Amazon gives them time to be careful.

Ellie — Okay, that is a bit excessive. I think wrapping all books together so the covers don’t get damaged is a good thing (as Amazon used to do), but each individual book in a shipment doesn’t need to be wrapped and then all of it wrapped again. With the three books that already came, they were with several other items and just tossed in the box haphazardly, no attempt to keep them from being damaged. Half the box was empty space with hardly any filler, so I am surprised only the one cover was damaged.

As I suspected, my missing book was not delivered yesterday as they said it would be. When I checked the tracking again last night, I had to laugh at the notice now posted, that shipping had been delayed, and that that was usually only a day, expect it in 1-3. One day?? It’s already been more than a week because they keep shipping it out of town once it gets here. At this point I’m not holding my breath.

Just not sure I will wait until 2021.

I chose Light from Other Stars. I have a hardcover copy, and the cover is very pretty. I don't know how to add the cover here in my comment.
Light from Other Stars

Kelly wrote: " [bookcover:The Archi..."

I read The Ten Thousand Doors of January this year, but the cover is very pretty.

Misty wrote: " I already read this, but I thought the cover was so beautiful."

I agree! I read this book in 2020.

The Binding really is gorgeous.

Some others that haven't been mentioned I don't think:



Midnight Library isn't the prettiest but I adore the neatness of the cover.

And something I read ages ago:

Mahi wrote: ""

On a similar note,

Probably A Time for Mercy by John Grisham

So many pretty covers come to mind! Mostly books that I want to reread and then reread again! I guess those are the ones I am most inclined to remember:

And here are a few that I want to read for the first time:

Also, since I love bunnies, any book with a cute bunny on the cover could easily fit this prompt for me! Or a dog! Or a cat! Or maybe a mermaid!

I feel like I could keep adding and adding! There are so many magical covers!