More lookalikes (or in this case, the same picture!)

Both of these books are mysteries, which is very fitting given their interesting (and a bit creepy) cover art - plus they were both officially released just days apart!

Still Life by Joy Fielding (released March 24, 2009)

This book sounds very interesting and sometime soon you'll be able to read my thoughts about it since I was lucky enough to win it through Twitter -THANKS AtriaBooks!

Keeper of Light and Dust by Natasha Mostert (released April 2, 2009)

(for more info read a great review by A Novel Menagerie, which is where I first heard of the book)

More Lookalikes

Both of these covers feature women behind curtains, which is intriguing and yet a little creepy........

Wife Goes On by Leslie Lehr

Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

More Lookalikes

Two very compelling covers of blue-eyed sad looking children (with only one eye showing). Ironically enough both books are award winners!

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland

Book Cover Faux-Pas

I came across a New York Times article written back in 2005 about book covers. The article does not talk about lookalikes but rather covers with the EXACT same photo, which apparently has been quite the problem. According to the article, this phenomenon is "the publishing equivalent of arriving at a party wearing the same dress as the hostess." I've never really thought about it like that. It does bring up some interesting issues.....

What do you think?


Pictured here are two examples of duplicate cover photos that are mentioned in the article.

Lookalikes

A little while ago I came across a great post on She reads and reads , where Avis wrote about similar book titles and mentioned her past post on similar book covers . She also listed other blogs that feature or mention similar findings:

Pop Culture Junkie 's series of lookalikes

A Girl Walks into a Bookstore 's “cover deja-vu"

Books on the Brain 's post here

Since reading those posts, I've been on a "similar book cover" hunt and today, I finally came across similar book covers!

The Debs by Susan McBride

The Prairie Bridesmaid by Daria Salamon

If anyone else comes across any others, I'd love to hear about it!