Here at the Infinite Shelf, it has never been a secret (however shallow that statement may sound) that book covers do matter! It often is the first chance a book has to lure us into reading it. The Artsy Shelf features interesting covers that share a similar characteristic : it can be a color, a detail, the model’s pose, anything! Black, red, white, pink : my four favorite colors. If a book cover has any of these colors as a main...

Last year, there seemed to be a trend of covers with gorgeous red dresses and beautiful white ones. While these trends are far from over, 2012 seems to be the year of the black dress. It’s something we had seen a lot on the covers for the Fallen series by Lauren Kate – and in fact, some of these covers look like they could belong with the series – but I’ve noticed a lot more of them in the recent months. Here are a few...

♥ Happy Valentine’s Day lovely readers! ♥ This specific holiday tends to bring either the love or the exasperated sighs, I know. But I love celebrations – and this one brings lots of lovely memories from my childhood! My mom always made it as a celebration that included not only significant others, but also family and friends. So, that’s a little of what I want to do here today; but instead of offering you valentines, I...

We’re back to the serious stuff this week as I feature covers that I actually love. It’s a theme I have kind of done before, with the Walking Away and Walking Away Together features. This time, I picked covers with a similar composition – tiny figures walking in the distance – and similar tones. There’s something serene, peaceful, quiet in these covers – almost too quiet, I’d say. I like them all, but...

I think the similarity between these covers is pretty obvious, right? The Artsy Shelf is usually my sweet spot to feature covers I love or themes that always catch my eyes on book covers. I hope you’ll forgive me as this week, I am doing the opposite by featuring a trend not that I dislike, but I don’t really get. I do kind of like the Forget You cover. The tones are sunny, summery and I’ve been missing the sun these days...

Somewhat following the last feature on white dresses, today I have selected covers who also have white dresses, but also present a character curled up on the ground. I’m pretty sure The Opposite of Amber and Far From You use the same image in reverse, and I do think the first one works best for me. My favorite though would be between  Ash and The Girl Who Chased the Moon. I love the contrast and simplicity of the first one, but the...

It’s no secret by now that I love dresses, and while now a book with shoes on the cover will barely get my attention, a beautiful dress will always do the trick. This week, I picked a few recent YA covers with girls in white dresses. I love seeing white dresses out of the wedding day context! I hadn’t realized, until I put them all together, how similar the tones are, too, among those picks. I love the energy, the movement, the...

Back in January, I featured on the Artsy Shelf covers with closeups, two of which inspired me today’s feature. It seems that blue eyes contrasted with a pale skin might be the perfect way to capture the readers’ attention. There’s a definite resemblance between Russel Smith’s Girl Crazy and Lauren Grodstein’s A Friend of the Family, which is why in my mind I often confuse those two covers. I think A Friend of the...