Friday Face-Off: Letters & Words
Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined theme, post and compare two or more different covers available for that book, then name your favorite. A list of future weeks’ themes are available at Lynn’s Book Blog.
This week’s theme is:
“You know your A, B, Cs”
~ a cover featuring only LETTERS & WORDS
Mogsy’s Pick:
World War Z by Max Brooks
It feels apt to choose an epistolary novel for the theme this week, and I’ve gone with a fun one. World War Z is a apocalyptic horror novel featuring a collection of individual accounts chronicling the global devastation following a zombie plague.
Let’s take a look at some of the covers:
First row, from left to right: Crown (2006) – Broadway Books (2013) – Duckworth (2011) – Thorndike Press (2006)
Second row, from left to right: Finnish Edition (2011) – French Edition (2010) – Italian Edition (2013) – Portuguese Edition (2010)
Third row, from left to right: German Edition (2010) – Polish Edition (2008) – Norwegian Edition (2012) – Romanian Edition (2012)
Fourth row, from left to right: Persian Edition (2006) – Spanish Edition (2008) – Thai Edition (2012) – Bulgarian Edition (2012)
Winner:
I’m not exactly the biggest fan of text-only covers, so I was glad to find plenty of graphical ones to choose from as well. These ranged from the atmospheric (Romanian Edition) and chaotic (Bulgarian Edition) to the creepy (Finnish Edition) to the downright insane (Thai Edition). In terms of overall aesthetics and art style preference, however, I’m going to have to go with the Portuguese Edition as my winner. It’s just so “classically zombie”.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
That Portuguese cover is awesome and very classically zombie-ish, I agree! I like the Romanian one too, and the Finnish, but I think my favorite is the Duckworth edition.
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Ah, the Duckworth cover is nice and clean. I do love the iconic zombie motifs though 😦
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I like the Bulgarian version. I haven’t watched the film yet as I wasn’t a fan of the book format and DNFed it quite early. Still I’ll see the film at some point!
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The movie was interesting. It was nothing like the book, so maybe it’ll actually work for you! 😀
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I think the ROmanian version with Polish second
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Both of those are quite nice!
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I love the very first one. Fun post!
x The Captain
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I like it too, it’s the ebook version I own I think 🙂
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Wow, who knew there were so many covers for this one. I like the one you chose and I also like the Duckworth version – must be the red, black and white. I’ve always been drawn to covers like that.
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Yes, there are a ton! And this is only scratching the surface; there are a lot more, but I only chose the better looking ones 🙂
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Such a varied bunch this is! I’m laughing at the Finnish cover, for some reason. I think I’m still partial to the original Crown edition since that’s the one I own.
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Oh, the Finnish cover is awful…it’s funny because it wouldn’t look out of place on a metal album 😀
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I like your choice! so many for this title!
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There are! Looks like it’s been translated all over the world!
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I not too big fan of text-only cover either, and it did take me a bit of time to find one in my collection Lol
The Portuguese one you selected in my second favorite: I am big fan of how they used the darker gold. But, like Tammy, I’d have to say the original Crown is still #1.
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I wonder if the gold on the real life cover is done in foil. Because that would make it look even more amazing!
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WOW, there is an incredible variety of covers for this one! And the Portuguese one caught my attention as well – that grasping hand is quite powerful…
🙂
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Yes, and there’s just something so classic and nostalgic about the Portuguese cover, I just couldn’t help but be drawn to it 🙂
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How cool! I’m sure I’ve got a different version… haha!
Great post!
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Yes, there are a lot of different versions 😀 Pretty sure I’ve got the first one.
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Yes to your choice!
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What a lot of covers and we have an accord – that was my favourite too. It just jumped out at me and I love it – not seen it before either.
Lynn 😀
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Yeah, my thought as well. There were a lot of covers for this book I hadn’t seen before 😀
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