This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: Cover Freebie (Pick any topic related to book covers. You can make up your own topic or pick one from the list of previous ones!)
I decided to find ten books with bodies of water on the cover – rivers, lakes, seas etc. It was more difficult than I expected but I got there eventually! I have written about all of these books on my blog and have linked to my reviews if you’d like to see my thoughts.
1. The Butterfly Picnic by Joan Aiken
2. Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
3. The Doctor of Thessaly by Anne Zouroudi
4. The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
6. The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull
7. Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore
8. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
9. The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick
10. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
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Have you read any of these? Can you think of any more books with water on the cover?
She Reads Novels 
I’d find it hard to do cover-related lists because I just don’t remember the artwork of most of the books I read. I’d have to start off thinking about books that had say a water theme – and then hope the cover matches that!
Yes, it was difficult and some of the books I thought were sure to have water on the covers turned out not to!
Had a quick scan of my bookshelves and found Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale, A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford and Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. (Hardback editions) Pretty much all Patrick O’Brian’s books I’d expect.
Yes, I had lots of Patrick O’Brian books to choose from, although some don’t have as much sea on the cover as you’d expect! Your Brooklyn cover must be different from mine.
Some fabulous covers there!
Glad you like them!
Gorgeous! I love that Laura Knight painting on the cover of To the Lighthouse especially
It’s a great painting, isn’t it, and perfect for that book, I think!
Great theme, and good job filling it from books you’ve reviewed. From my recent reads I can recommend Turning by Jessica Lee, with a beautiful watery cover and lots of water inside too. (The author swam in 52 different lakes near Berlin over a year). That pick was inspired by Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, also a very watery book, though not all covers pick up the theme.
Turning sounds fascinating and perfect for this theme. I read Surfacing last year but didn’t include it here because my cover wasn’t very watery, despite water having such a big role in the book.
I’ve read nos. 356 and 8. I thought immediately of The Secret River by Kate Grenville.
I haven’t read The Secret River yet, but yes, that would be a good one.
I don’t know that Morning Gift cover and did not remember any water in that book!
I visited Zennor with Cath from Read-Warbler several years ago and keep meaning to read that book.
The Man in the Brown Suit is one of my favorite Christies.
Isn’t there a scene by the Northumbrian coast at some stage? (Just checked my review, and yes, it’s at a place called Bowmont.)
As Chris has commented, there’s a small part of The Morning Gift set by water, but I don’t think that cover is really representative of the book!
The Man in the Brown Suit is one of my favourites too, at least of the ones that aren’t Poirot or Miss Marple books.
Landscape images are always a good sell on covers, I feel, and these were lovely to boot! The Aiken is one I’ve not yet read but the Ibbotson is, and the Woolf is on my notional schedule to read. 🙂
The Aiken was very entertaining, although I don’t think it’s one of her better books (not that I’ve read as much of her work as you have). I would be interested to hear your thoughts on To the Lighthouse – for me it was a book I admired rather than one I particularly enjoyed.
I don’t mind an admirable book even if I didn’t enjoy it, but a series of them can be a bit wearing sometimes!