Judging books by their covers

Let’s talk aesthetic books!

Books mentioned:
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (1966)
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu (trans. Julia Sanches) (2022)
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant (2022)
Slow Days, Fast Company. The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz (1977)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (1981)
Histoire de la sexualité 2: L'usage des plaisirs (The History of Sexuality vol. 2) by Michel Foucault (1984)
Deluge by Leila Chatti (2020)
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)
Girls Against God by Jenny Hval (trans. Mariam Idris) (2018)
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2012)
Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
Pew by Catherine Lacey (2020)
2666 by Roberto Bolaño (trans. Natasha Wimmer) (2004)
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (trans. Benjamin Moser, Katrina Dodson) (2011)
Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014)
The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington (1975)

Tag prompts:
1. Best color combination
2. Best typography
3. Best simple cover
4. Best end pages
5. Best map
6. Best naked hardcover
7. Best back cover
8. Best chapter headers
9. Best spine
10. Best drawings

[r.enee.morris]

Yes the purple red combo is a winner esp in this Susan Sontag. I’m so glad you did this tag because I really wanted to perve your collection.

[jameskatie]

so excited when i saw you had done this tag because i knew every single example would be gorgeous and you did not disappoint! beautiful sophie with beautiful books 🤍💫

[wicebittten]

ahh i just read the hearing trumpet but with the nyrb edition which i'm literally in love with, it might be one of my favorite covers ever. i loved the book too of course. although i was under the impression that the illustrations in the book weren't by leonora but actually her son pablo! anyways have you read down below?

[SpringboardThought]

Hah love this. Always want to see what people have. I’ve got so many graphic novel special editions that it’d be even more difficult to choose, I imagine

[julie.k]

loved slow days fast company and its nyrb cover, also the Gallimard blanche editions hehe so classic<3

[nathansnook]

Augenblicke!!! i gasped when you unraveled that work of art! 🤯

[alattemorning]

LOVE your dungarees, and Pew is a great, strange little book, highly recommend!

[yenasung]

Ooo what a fun tag!! I consider myself tagged 🤓

[nadsluvsread]

The cover for Deluge is amazing. So striking!

[dinaklarisse]

"not an extremely aesthetic library it's a big library" hallelujah

[petervalente]

The Importance of Being Iceland is great!

[jorjastonej]

Isn’t it great to celebrate beauty?! Thanks