Book Cover of the Day

Fat Vampire
By Adam Rex
Harper Collins $16.99

Vampires are supposed to be young and sexy, but what if you're the fat kid and you get turned into a vampire? Now you have to be the fat kid forever. Great use of slushy as blood on this cover.

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Rat Girl
By Kristin Hersh
Penguin $15.00

Oh my goodness, a memoir from Kristin Hersh! I was sure happy to find this on the shelf, and it has a fun cover. I love the illustration and the colors and the fact that it's not flashy.

Book Cover of the Day

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
By Alain de Botton
Vintage $15.95

This cover is elegantly simple and I love the way the text is split into columns.

Book Cover of the Day

The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books $13.99

This cover is clean and simple and this book is in our Fiction section (where new books are 20% off in October).

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John Henry Days
By Colson Whitehead
Anchor $14.95

The symmetry is lovely.

Book Cover of the Day

Sick City
By Tony O'Neill
Harper Collins $13.99

I like this cover, it looks like a movie I would want to go see.

Book Cover of the Day

The Financial Lives of the Poets
By Jess Walter
Harper Collins $14.99

The designer did a great job fitting all that text onto the front cover and still making it look good, it's a challenging thing to do.