- Book Page's Best Book Covers of the Year
- American Book Review's 100 Best Last Lines
Publishers are getting much better at trying to sell the appeal of a book with its cover. You can tell the genre and tone/mood of most fiction just by looking at the book's cover. Also, publishers include appeal info on the flaps and in the blurbs on the back covers. With so little time to sell a book to a patron, using the cover to help us divine clues about what is between those covers, is a helpful RA tool in and of itself.So what can you tell about the appeal of the books on the list from looking at their covers?
The last lines list was great. John and I talked about it at the RA desk for 10 minutes. His favorite (from Farwell to Arms) was there, but mine is book that ends in a flip book, not words, so it was not. Interestingly John noted, most people pick the last line of 1984, which is right at the top of the list.
So check it out for yourself.
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