Take It Or Leave it - June: Challenge #2 - Faceless Covers

This is the place where we can post a picture of the faceless cover of the book that we are reading for Challenge #2.

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To start us off, my first cover for this challenge:



The Midwife of the Blue Ridge by Christine Blevins

The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

I have one, can someone give me a hint as to how to post a picture that's a cover on LT?

#4 by @Helenliz> see:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/129158#3125117

Is this one okay?

#5 - thanks, lets see if it works...
I'll be listening to The Italian Matchmaker with its faceless lady


Oh cool, that seems to have worked. Thanks!

The Getaway by Jim Thompson



Hard to make out in this image, but that's guy with a rifle. His chin is in his chest, his face obscured by his shoulder. He appears to be failing to make a getaway.

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

Here's mine, Will Many Be Saved?: What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization by Ralph Martin.

Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge edited by Paul Zakrzewski

#6 - Jean, I think that cover works just fine for this challenge.

I love how there are so many different ways of not showing the person's face!

Almost The Truth by Margaret Yorke



Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Life after life by Kate Atkinson

Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz


I had to include this one!

Eleanor and Park byRainbow Rowell

#17 - I love that one!! :)

The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human by Vint Virga

The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

>#17:
I loved LAL so much that I still get all a-tingle when I see that someone is reading or going to be reading it. One of my best reads of the year for sure!

Days of Grace by Catherine Hall

Here's another one, A Million Suns by Beth Revis

#24 - Heather, I love that cover, but you may want to check the link, it leads to Arthur's Ashe's biography instead of the book you have listed.

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

#26 Well spotted - thanks Judy!

I'm going to add Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. Technologically can't post pics without risk of computer problems, but it's on all the various websites. Designs have a girl with hair, the tip of one eye -- but the face is masked by hair in front of it and a sweater or something pulled up. Clever.

Is this the one you want Suzanne?

that's it!! Thanks so much...

And there is one more that I may get to - An American Bride in Kabul is a memoir in which the pic is of a woman dressed in hijab, with hands over her face, as if praying or weeping. No touchstone yet.

The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell

Here's the image for An American Bride in Kabul.

It's amazing how many ways there are to NOT show a face, beyond what have become the ubiquitous headless woman covers on historical novels... :-)

In darkness by Nick Lake

#34 - Chatterbox, I was just thinking that myself!

Mine has people whose heads are hidden by the bags of coal that they are carrying:

I read Mariana last month and the cover, a fine example of no head fiction!

Die unsichtbaren Stimmen : Roman by Carolina De Robertis

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Gossip by Beth Gutcheon

Angel's Ink by Jocelynn Drake

Twice Shy by Patrick Freivald

Well I can report that The Italian Matchmaker managed to be not only headless, but fairly pointless too. Almost as if the first draft came up about an third too short - so there seemed to be a fair amount of excess baggage to make up the word count.

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Guess it's not going to happen. I can't remember how to find the address for a book cover. My book is Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick.

Here you go, Joyce.

Thank you so much, ccookie. I know I've done it before, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it again. right now just isn't my time.

I've been trying to post the cover for A Half Forgotten Song by Katherine Webb, but am not really sure how to do it - there are in fact two alternative covers with people whose faces can't be seen - one has one person, the other two.

Thanks!

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Austenland by Shannon Hale

The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmetier

The Luckiest Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

My last faceless book for this challenge is (completed just in the nick of time!):



The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

Tinkers by Paul Harding



Paul Stalder requested me to put this up as his copy wouldn't qualify.

merci, mon cher

What did you think of Peach Keeper? I've read two others by Allen and really liked them.

Hey, Morphi - Same here. I've read her Sugar Queen and Garden Spells and even though I'm not really a fantasy reader, I enjoyed them both very much. I didn't think Peach Keeper was quite as good as those, but I did like its theme of lifelong friendship, and enjoyed seeing the Waverly ladies from Garden Spells again in one of the chapters.

I'm surprised to see how many of my books for the July challenges have faceless women on the cover. Sheesh. I'd never noticed this trend before. Thanks, for pointing out yet one more way women are being erased.

61: It was eye-opening, wasn't it?!

Karen O.

Thanks for posting all these varied covers, everybody. It is interesting to see the different ways that the faces are kept from us, from the coy, with their backs turned towards us, to the hands up to the face or peeking out from behind a dog! My personal favorite was Colin Fischer posted by Kerry (Avatiakh)with a bold, full frontal erase of the facial features.