Our Biggest Book Icks
After seeing this trend all over our TikTok, we thought we would collate a list of some of our biggest bookish icks.
Real people on book covers
Examples: Daisy Jones & The Six, City of Bones, A Little Life, The Selection
Long, long, long chapters
Examples: The Secret History, Lord of the Rings, It, Jane Eyre
Inconsistent appearance of a series
Examples: Alex Rider, Lunar Chronicles, Mickey Bolitar Series, ACOTAR
Names you don’t know how to pronounce
Examples: Into The Crooked Place, Five Midnights, The Kingkiller Chronicles
Movie Covers
Examples: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Percy Jackson Series, Twilight, The Great Gatsby
Beautiful Sleeves, Boring Nakedness
Example: The Eve Illusion
‘Not like other girls’ protagonist
Examples: Throne of Glass, A Deadly Education, Cruel Prince
Long awaited series completion
Examples: A Song of Ice and Fire, The Kingkiller Chronicles, Ninth House
Honourable Mentions
- Too many sizes of paperbacks and hardbacks
- Stickers and fake stickers
- No blurbs
- ‘It was all a dream…’ endings