Designer: how misleading do you want this design? Publisher: yes.

[@justcallmeteacup4711]

That Great Gatsby cover is criminal 😂 It's giving "Arranged marriage to a mafia boss, enemies to lovers"

[@Fluff_Noodles]

It is such a strong romance smut Wattpad / Webnovel competitor

[@fulana_de_tal]

Imagine someone picking it up thinking it's erotica because of the cover and then it's The Great Gatsby 😭

[@dancinganimals.]

​@@fulana_de_tal😂

[@ros9764]

It's incredible that somebody took a book that talks about american greed culture in the early 20th century and thought the cover should look like a playboy magazine

[@itsdivyag]

A must read

[@haveagoodday7021]

No one can ever dethrone Lolita for "book covers that completely miss the point of the book"

[@lilyhawthorne1196]

Ugh yes, it's almost always either chic contemporary romance or thrift store smut type covers. My favorite idea for a cover is a broken chrysalis

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

It has many awful covers but some are very good too. I like the one with 3 lips saying the different syllables of Lo-li-ta

[@sghuntress.mp4]

i like the one where it's a painting of a creepy looking man who's supposed to represent humbert. i think it really sets the tone perfectly.

[@itsdivyag]

ty for this suggestion. i included lolita in the part 2 of this series :) ! feel free to check it out

[@cristinamagalhaes4813]

The six of crows with the six feathers on the cover... Someone thought they were very smart for doing that

[@itsdivyag]

symbolism I’ll give them that 👏👏 and the fact that it has the title and author name

[@LivesInHerBooks]

I just want to know who came up with the idea of pink and blue... like how?

[@mikaylamyers8521]

@@LivesInHerBooks I can actually tell you! They're the Indigo (Canadian Barnes & Noble) Special Summer Editions, and they were designed to be beach-read style books. I had to make a display for my store when they first came in, and I think they are so ugly, and I cringe everytime someone buys them.

[@goosegas2087]

​@@mikaylamyers8521They should've at least put a yellow on the spine.

[@esobelisk3110]

@@mikaylamyers8521 i get that aesthetic for a beach read type of book, but from what i’ve heard, six of crows is not in that genre at all? so it’s just misleading marketing. like that’s not how you reach your target audience….

[@JamesLawner]

WHO thought that Great Gatsby cover was okay?!?! Like there ain’t even a sex scene in that book! 😳😱😖😭🤬

[@lvzyours]

There’s no correlation what so ever. False advertisement. I’m dying at the fact “great” is just maximized to the fullest and we have squint to even read “the” and “Gatsby” 😂😂😂

[@JamesLawner]

@@lvzyours Someone really took “sex sells” and ran with it! 🤣

[@lillyputian5907]

I’m crying like who is that even supposed to represent 😂😂😂

[@aries08]

You sound like someone who bought the book based on the cover and is now very upset with the way it went

[@JamesLawner]

@@aries08 I've read Great Gatsby in 2011, and I did not read the edition that I saw in this vid 😂😂 I'm just a disgruntled civilian.

[@LC-gw7tp]

I actually have that edition of Wuthering Heights that has “Bella and Edwards favourite book” printed on it

[@itsdivyag]

did it become your favourite book also

[@anitasilvestri]

They really made the great Gatsby the great thirst trap 💀

[@GreySeashell-j3m]

LMFAO

[@agnieslefttoes]

SOBBING

[@Arc_Carnes]

NOOOO

[@groofay]

Gotta love it when the cover is a different _genre_ from the book.

[@itsdivyag]

Same

[@alexdingley9808]

seen that wuthering heights cover irl and it has a nonremoveable sticker on it saying "Bella and Edward's favourite book!", the marketing team knew what they were doing im crying

[@itsdivyag]

bamboozled me at age 12

[@missimmi]

I love that cause it's not even true. If memory serves me right, Edward hated Wuthering Heights and only warmed up to it cause he wanted to kill Jacob, but only if Bella stopped being friends with him, so he related to the characters in that sense. Didn't mean he liked it.

[@itsdivyag]

the great g[abs]by part 2 is up!! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/a17QlXl-q9xmndE part 3!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3YlJlvfaqSq8U

[@raineatscheese]

I’m not ready for this

[@chileab.]

...genuinely read this as the great g[asp]by because of how shocking the cover was

[@itsdivyag]

@@chileab. this is so good

[@OctopusWhoSeesAll]

The great ga[bs]y

[@RubykonCubes3668]

noice, very cool

[@zamiyaFlow]

That Wuthering Heights cover is brilliant, perfect way to wean someone off Twilight and into the novel

[@itsdivyag]

It’s like ‘just read twilight? 😜 here’s a classic from the 1800s get rekt’

[@happyjellycatsquid]

@@itsdivyag “You thought you knew toxic codependency? B*tch here’s Wuthering Heights 🤡” That sht is going to traumatise some tween girls 😆

[@elikrauss6071]

bro, I remember that Bella's favorite book was Wuthering Heights!!

[@itsdivyag]

@@elikrauss6071 yesss there’s a sticker on it that says bellas fave 😭

[@EmyN]

I see the Twilight hate

[@TheSnowBallet]

I'm German and had the German Hunger Games editions as a teen because English books weren't accessible to me at the time. Not only are they bland-looking compared to the original US editions, but I hate how they renamed them, especially Catching Fire. The German titles for the books are "Die Tribute von Panem: Tödliche Spiele" (The Tributes of Panem: Deadly Games), "Die Tribute von Panem: Gefährliche Liebe" (The Tributes of Panem: Dangerous Love) and "Die Tribute von Panem: Flammender Zorn" (The Tributes of Panem: Flaming Fury). I'm not so mad about them giving the series an overarching title but "Dangerous Love" instead of "Catching Fire" feels downright insulting. The book series isn't the greatest thing ever made but it was about a lot more than just the romance subplot, by God.

[@itsdivyag]

DANGEROUS LOVE??? whoever made that choice was a beyonce stan

[@itsdivyag]

also ty for letting me know this fact haha it adds so many layers to the already off covers

[@what-ym2mf]

I actually prefer the German covers, I found them to be more intriguing as a teen hahah. But I agree, the titles could be better.

[@bookishwriter9460]

I hate the subtitles Germany tends to have for everything. Like: Bones - die Knochenjägerin (Bones, the bone hunter) Stand by me - Geheimnis eines Sommers (Stand by me - A summer's secret) Blind side - die große chance (the great opportunity) Grey's Anatomy - die jungen Ärzte (the young doctors) Der große Trip - Wild (the great trip) Seattle firefighters - die jungen Helden (the young heroes) Brooklyn - eine Liebe zwischen zwei Welten (a love between two worlds) Like, why? I get some people don't speak English but it's not like those titles are making it any clearer. If anything, they are spoilery.

[@TheSnowBallet]

@@bookishwriter9460 They make the title harder to remember too imo. And nobody I knew ever used them. They just said "Grey's Anatomy" or "Bones" because nobody has time for this shit.

[@watsonmelon6575]

It's funny you should say "crush me with them THIGHS" about that cover for the Iliad because Odysseyus is described as having "fine massive thighs" [kind of sus of Homer] and someone remarks on "what a thigh the old fella has"

[@itsdivyag]

the cover did its job well!! 👏👏

[@kenzgitz9884]

I'm pretty sure Patroclus is in one of the other ancient Greek plays as well...by Achilles obviously

[@kjarakravik4837]

I also read that according to some historians thigh or leg was considered a slang term for dong back then

[@swagromancer]

@@kjarakravik4837 Not entirely wrong. The word μηρός (merós), meaning "thigh" or "thigh bone", was also used to refer to "the loins", either in the context of "the place where a sword is worn", or as an allusion to "the center of reproductive power". But this usage only developed with the Koine dialect of the Greek language, about half a millennium after Homer. It might have the same root as the Latin word membrum ("limb"), which was used in much the same euphemistic way, while its English form obviously carries the meaning until this day. Classical studies, hell yeah.

[@KPOPDanceDeepDives]

Please make this a series! Also another reason the naked man Gatsby cover is weird is why is “Gatsby” so small? My first thought seeing the title was literally “oh I haven’t heard of this book before”. 😭 I get why they’d emphasize the “great”, but they didn’t need to make the second half illegible. ☠️

[@itsdivyag]

i suspect it's for whoever is too ashamed to be reading the great gatsby in public so they have to hide it with abs

[@fish2380]

Ah yes, the classic book "GREAT"

[@Aurelian369_]

KDDD I didn’t expect to see you here 😱

[@KPOPDanceDeepDives]

@@Aurelian369_ lmaooooo and i didn't expect to be recognized here 😳

[@anonymousfandommix6850]

Wait legit, why is there no black person on the huckleberry fin cover???

[@realms.delight]

I love how you come around to rant about a random problem I had no idea existed and I still stay fully entertained the whole video

[@itsdivyag]

here at itsdivya productions we give delve into things no one asked for™

[@manmoy4104]

The Woodsworth book covers are stuff my brain would autogenerate in a dream tbh

[@itsdivyag]

They have an absurdist charm

[@HollyDunnDesign]

I think Wordsworth Classics heard all the shade because they are actually redesigning all of their paperbacks at the moment. I was fortunate enough to be hired to be hired to illustrate their new Brontë covers and they’re going to be foiled and gorgeous (if I do say so myself). 😂 They’re a great company making classic paperbacks accessible (and saved my budget more than once during my university days). I’m very happy to be part of the solution! 🎨

[@itsdivyag]

i love that

[@HollyDunnDesign]

@@itsdivyag Oh, I've had a good giggle over some of them!

[@sandorenckell5259]

I thought they were all AI generated

[@rebeccaphelps3351]

That Great Gatsby at the end with the Y as the cocktail glass is GORGEOUS! Now I want that one.

[@itsdivyag]

its SO GOOD

[@Wallisimo]

That Pride and Prejudice was definitely meant to appeal to Twilight readers. They released the new edition right after the first movie came out and the back of the book had all these extras things in it like Facebook profiles for Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. There was also a whole article in the back comparing Twilight to Pride and Prejudice. Anyway, how do I know all this? ....because I wrote that article 💀

[@itsdivyag]

omg a living legend

[@opiateutopia]

Damn, I saw those Hunger Games covers back in 2010s. The same book series published YA romance like Twilight, so the designer didn't think twice. It seems only on the third book they went "wait, it's not steamy YA romance?"

[@itsdivyag]

there is probably only 1% of actual steamy romance in thg

[@A88-p5e]

the UK cover of A Little Life made me think it was one of those lifestyle coffee table books like Humans of New York or whatever

[@itsdivyag]

i loveeee this connection

[@sienabrown2612]

As someone who used to work specifically in licensing covers to international publishers, whenever publishers go with a different cover, it’s usually because the elements/photos are too expensive to license! Authors can be SUPER protective of the original covers, so it’s easier for everyone if they’re the same!

[@kiripedia]

The way she said “and then we have ecli-ipse” made me laugh so hard

[@itsdivyag]

Petition to change the pronunciation of eclipse and twilight

[@thylionheart]

the Pride & Prejudice one made me SHRIEK laughing

[@itsdivyag]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single bad-boy-hunk in possession of a good fortune, pale skin and piercing blue orbs, must be in want of a broody romance

[@nutkja]

@@itsdivyag This comment is AMAZING

[@ContendCreators]

It made you shrek

[@rina-nv5yr]

2:21 “You won’t get what book is this” Me, Russian, reading the title, in Russian: 🤓

[@itsdivyag]

only russian readers sksk

[@_Sparky144]

Me reading the section title:

[@sorenoberg5763]

One of the least favorite things about what publishers have done to Lolita is the cover. He specifically didn't want girls on the cover and yet now that's literally how the covers. The book is supposed to be about the evils of child abuse as seen through a rapist's eyes, and publisher's thought we should use scandalous images of young girls to sell this book. It's disgusting and one of the reasons people have begun to misunderstand the work.

[@marionapina]

My guesses so far: - the notebook? - Percy Jackson - alternative universe twilights - abs pic is a Four, that divergent spin-off

[@itsdivyag]

THE NOTEBOOK WAS A GOOD ONE BC ITS LEGIT THE RAIN SCENE

[@KaiInMotion]

I love looking at various editions fr. When like a random alternate cover from Indonesia or something is a total slay. Or then the German edition looks like....a parody. Iconic.

[@itsdivyag]

hidden talent all around the world.. and some talents should remain hidden

[@freakytostadacartoon]

Like the Thai covers of Harry Potter are magestic

[@dhakahealth5935]

@@freakytostadacartoonI just looked it up and oh my lord they’re absolutely breathtaking I would honestly buy them immediately if I saw them in a store just because they’re so gorgeous

[@meowmeowfuzzyface3698]

I totally forgot during the Twilight craze they printed books Bella and Edward read in the style of the Twilight covers. I believe they did Wuthering Heights and Romeo & Juliet too but I can't be positive.

[@a.m139]

All of my guesses... completely wrong 😂 Really did not see the Pride and Prejudice one coming... now if they had a pic of a male torso in a wet white linen shirt i might have guessed correctly 😆

[@itsdivyag]

maybe colin firth

[@alexisb3829]

The great gatsby one- I just can’t. The book has a lot of really great designs for the cover

[@eden000edén]

as someone with an intense love for Six of Crows and an intense obsession with the Grishaverse as a whole, you will be paying for my therapy now thank you

[@itsdivyag]

Fs in the chat

[@theshire9173]

I'm so proud that I guessed The Song of Achilles correctly by the cover alone I also am fluent in Hebrew, so that might have helped a little

[@itsdivyag]

i believe that you didn't read the title and you have amazing guessing powers

[@katerinakovarikova3486]

For me it was the fig that gave it away😅

[@Squishy_Seal]

I would love you to turn this into a series! I love your style and as an avid bookcover analyst, this is a treat

[@itsdivyag]

COMING SOON 😭💕💕

[@subtlefire7256]

Wordsworth Classics got what they deserve at the start there lol. Would love to see you do more of these.

[@itsdivyag]

Wordsworth classics have a place in my heart

[@jio5680]

Despite how ugly they are, they surprisingly sturdy for paperbacks)

[@itsdivyag]

@@jio5680 I have a couple and the creases give it some charm 🤭

[@xeniabondarchik1775]

That rainy Hunger Games was my first edition of this book... My parents were like "Oh it looks like cool teen romance book, let's buy it for our 12y.o. girl!" And this book influenced my personality a lot, not because of romance but because of that freedom and more relatable(?) life-or-death expirience than Robinson Crusoe had. So yeah, this cover is really strange, but I'm glad that first edition of Hunger Games in my country was THAT strange lol

[@DxityDoo]

I love looking at different covers. Would 100% love to see this video concept again

[@itsdivyag]

ty for the feedback 💖💖

[@Ashely56]

I would love for this to be a series!!!!

[@itsdivyag]

i will be on the hunt!

[@MsHermyGranger]

As a Russian i just have to say that the "The Hunger Games" book cover is very similar to the Russian book cover of "Twilight" , even the font is the same. It was meant to capitalise on the success of the "Twilight" franchise when it was a thing and "the Huger Games" weren't popular yet. They changed covers several times since. I even feel old remembering this whole story

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

For A Little Life, I have these whole different sets of parameters of how I think about the two covers: When treating the cover as a "how well does it represent what the vibe and point of the book is and make people want to buy it" kinda thing, I agree that the US cover is a thousand times better and I think the choice of the picture is perfect for representing it... BUT I love to think of the UK cover as sort semi in-universe in a way and that's where some version of me prefers it. I think of it as the white borders hiding what lays behind, and even the glimpses we do get (the letters), they only show the outside of the building, we don't get to see inside and we don't get to see Jude (or Willem, or anyone). It's such a voyeuristic book, I like that this edition doesn't immediately make you Jude's voyeur just by looking at it, you have to pick it up and peek inside to see what is going on behind the white and then even further behind the walls of that building. Idk if I'm making sense and I know it sounds a bit contrived like I'm making up a reason to like the cover but it's also just kind of sweet that at least with that cover, he and his pain get to be hidden a little bit. Almost like the front- and backcover protect him and you have to get to know him to see the pain that the US version so readily presents. Idk If I explained this well, it is sort of a headcanon kinda thing about the cover so definitely not an objective judgement of how aesthetic I think it is, but I felt compelled to share :) (On a related but different note, the man on the US cover looks white to me and Jude isn't white so it feels like the cover is whitewashing him and that's the one thing I really dislike about their choice of that picture - even though I get why they went with it, it really does represent the themes of the book perfectly)

[@itsdivyag]

you're not making up a reason at all! it's a fantastic analysis and 100% designers and artists think carefully about the choices they make. i loved it a lot. the whitewashing thing i haven't read so can't comment too much on but if that is true that's a huge shame

[@roxane1237]

The book felt awkward to read and the big picture of the man crying was awkward too on my side table so I had to turn it over in order to avoid seeing it lol (also the book is massive so it's a very big face you cannot ignore in a room)

[@LadyJenevia]

NOT THE SIX OF CROWS COVER 😭😭😭 NOT THE PASTELS!!! 😵‍💫

[@itsdivyag]

i thought maybe if i look at it more i'll like it but... nope

[@swimdontdrift4344]

The UK version of A Certain Hunger has a bit of Edgar Wright energy Also I love the green screen presentation format

[@itsdivyag]

more green screen (or almost green wall posing as a green screen cause i'm cheap) to come!

[@KaiayaRules]

I actually really like that alternative cover for Red, White & Royal Blue

[@hypnotisized]

i have seen that six of crows cover before and it still jumpscared me

[@itsdivyag]

i will put a WARNING NEEE NAWW next time

[@Izumi250]

That russian cover of Hunger Games is the reason I refused to read that series for the longest time. Okay, so when I was 13 or so, my cousin worked at a bookstore. I visited her there once and asked if she could recommend me anything. So she showed me the YA section and said "these two are pretty good". One was Uglies by Scott Westerfeld which had a generic close up portrait of a girl on the cover. And the other was The Hunger Games with that bloody cover of a couple hugging in the rain. I really didn't like romance books at the time so I've picked Uglies. (which kinda sucked, i dropped it in the middle of the second book). I've then read Hunger Games a couple years later and loved it. So, fuck whoever designed the cover of the russian translation, I guess.

[@itsdivyag]

TALLY-WA AND SHAY-LA UGLIES ??????

[@EwemizDreamsRawks]

a video i never knew i needed. would love to see a UK vs US book covers video - i think it'd fascinating to see why books are designed differently for different audiences/places!

[@itsdivyag]

That's a great ideaaa

[@duck_in_a_cup]

This video showed up at the right time. I litteraly found yesterday a book cover of Orwell's "Animal Farm" with an "emoij like" smiling pig head on a white background... a very appropriate cover for a book about comunism 💀 Edit: If you want to look it up by yourselves, i'm leaving the title and the reast of the information on the cover book "La fattoria degli animali" edizione integrale, testo inglese a fronte, Edizione Theoria (Note that I'm not so sure if It will work for everybody since It's an Italian edition and my Google is set in Italian)

[@bigboldflavortext]

I searched it up (I also know some italian so maybe my computer understood the assignment) and WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT COVER WHAT IS THAT WHY THE FUCK WHO DID THIS

[@chrisamies2141]

"Big Brother only he's a pig" would be a good place to start from!

[@duck_in_a_cup]

​@bigboldflavortext First of all, thank you, subject n.1, to have guaranteed me that everything is working as intended. 😂 I can't explained myself why on earth this book cover is a thing, but recently the library is full of strangers things, like a book called "the centenary (lady) with the gun". On the cover this old lady with pink rollers, a robe and the gun she's pointing toward you. 💀

[@duck_in_a_cup]

​@@chrisamies2141God, now I'll think about this while trying to sleep 😂

[@bigboldflavortext]

@@duck_in_a_cup im crying what the hell

[@medea__witchhh]

the somg of achilles and the six of crows one i cant

[@itsdivyag]

song of achilles is very 2011 coded

[@jordansharon3324]

5:39 seeing a book in Hebrew was so funny bruh. I forgot that you're not supposed to be able to read that and was confused on her asking us to guess what book it is😭😭

[@ICat00987]

omg pls make this a series its so slay

[@itsdivyag]

part two is uppppp :) and part three coming next week

[@ICat00987]

@@itsdivyag I SAW AND GOOD GOD THIS SERIES IS SO SLAYYYY pls never stop creating🌺☺️

[@elihinata1]

I love the content idea! But please don't do only UK vs. US - I'm sure you'd have content but it'd be much more fun and rich to see how other languages/cultures/countries did for covers

[@itsdivyag]

We need global design recognition for sure

[@Catsandcamera]

There were numerous books in the video that had titles not in English, so weren't UK or US editions

[@daniellemhall1358]

The Wordsworth classic covers make me want to cry. Edit: That's the cover of Great Gatsby I want. I would read it on the bus and cause a scandal. 😂😂

[@itsdivyag]

it's actually so good like people think you're reading smut but little do they know

[@daniellemhall1358]

@@itsdivyag Exactly ☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@technojunkie123]

The pink & blue Six of Crows cover has me reeling 😂

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

We need a series. That great gatsby cover is crazy.

[@kgcat]

why are these sooo funny 🤣 I feel like they edited the great gatsby one and EDITED ON the white highlight on his nipple, or something. im cryign

[@bamb3928]

Please make this a series, this was great! ❤️👍

[@itsdivyag]

I'll try!

[@Armistice_]

UK vs. USA covers would be great

[@itsdivyag]

thinking thinking

[@dasmysteryman12]

I found a cover of C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity" on Amazon and it was a picture of his old hipster woman with glasses. I was the most random thing ever, it's not even related to what the book was about.

[@archivist-93]

The Great Gatsby one has me in tears 😭😭😂

[@nellieb6585]

Please all they did was zoom in on the original cover and increase the font size to 48 for Twilight 😭 they didn’t even try😭 (Ps you say shrimp posture I say I’m practicing for my Hunchback of Norte Dame cosplay)

[@itsdivyag]

together we make a new pixar movie

[@braindumq]

Can we talk about all of the variations of the Lolita cover because they are HORRIFIC

[@flogstascreamer]

“Wordsworth classics are kind of like the SHEIN of books” 💀💀💀 facts

[@mothumn]

why do i want the abs cover of the great gatsby

[@itsdivyag]

it’s kinda… 👁️👁️🤭

[@elleliteracy]

i’m obsessed with this powerpoint format i feel like you got a good few squats in there too innit

[@ndreatetaz7891]

i really hope you make this into a series, i really enjoyed it and i find it so interesting how covers can differ so much from one country to another

[@hauthot287]

Let us not forget one of the great tragedies of book designs. The way mfs would design Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[@itsdivyag]

God it’s always like a close up lip of a woman 🤦‍♀️

[@Simplyvibing465]

FR!!! those covers make it look like a steamy romance when that’s the furthest thing from what it is 🤢

[@avoidant560]

This topic reminds me of another video I watched about how the publishing industry treated Lolita cover. I guess never judge a book by its cover could never be truer now

[@elenarodriguez602]

The way you talk and explain things is the absolute peak of comedy and it made my night so much better.

[@Infinite_Repeat]

8:30 I have no idea what This book is about but I saw a pineapple being cut in half with a bloody cleaver I would definitely pick up that book

[@bluemai8776]

that final gatsby cover is genius, omg the cocktail y

[@itsdivyag]

It’s so so good

[@readingjoelle2735]

Please make this a series!!!

[@ClaudiaDavZam]

Omg, totally forgot about Vampire Academy until I saw the cover. Thanks for the memories.

[@NikoN-xw6xy]

I’m just glad you didn’t go over the Lolita covers, when I saw those I was sick to my stomach.

[@juliawidmaier5334]

Bruh i would have never guessed Song of Achilles if you gave me five days to think about it 😅. Also i was howling at The Great Gatsby cover 😂😂😂, it just has no relation to the story whatsoever.

[@The_Cult_Nextdoor]

Video is 👌 always hilarious content. But I could literally just listen to you talk for hours...love the accent and vibe. When are we gonna get a podcast!?!?!?

[@itsdivyag]

Oooo what topics would you like ?

[@The_Cult_Nextdoor]

@itsdivyag literally anything....reaction videos would be great, too. Reacting to, again, literally anything. Just pick something that's been reacted to a million times already and give us YOUR reaction to it.

[@laurenh5982]

Girl I just found this channel and I already love it!!! Please never stop the design roasts and fun content💕💕

[@ubermut1379]

It’s so interesting to me as a cultural scientist how the further down the line you go from book covers, the more they become abstractions of themselves. Like the first mocking bird covers where abstract depictions of some of the symbolism within the book whereas the special editions where abstract versions, slightly changed versions of the first cover. With the classics in Twilight graphic design, it also makes more sense to me than it should. But I distinctly remember Stephanie Meyer constantly referencing Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. Bella was reading them! So in an odd way, this is a full circle moment. Younger readers might be inspired to read these books because Stephanie Meyer obviously loves them. Give them the Twilight make over and you might really be able to reach a new audience. But of course, I MIGHT be trying to read a bit too much into these things.

[@ClaudiaDavZam]

I was a high school student in Mexico when Twilight was in their prime. They did inspire me to loan Wuthering Heights from the library. I wouldn't have otherwise since the classics of my required reading are reall different than the Anglo-Saxon education.

[@throwingoftheshade]

I would love if this became a new series!!

[@itsdivyag]

more eye-watering covers coming soon

[@beigeotter]

yes please make this a series

[@somewittyusername2721]

"you have no idea whats coming up" I THOUGHT WAS LES MIS LMAO WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

[@grahamcrack]

nothing currently pisses me off more than this epidemic of contemporary pastel minimalistic covers for classics and fantasies, someone tie these designers grubby greasy grippers UP

[@brunamarr]

The cover of little life is from an actual photograph named orgasm, which is kind of interesting since people can't tell iwhat exactly that face means. The book is a bunch of triggers of how miserable life can be, just check the trigger warnings. I don't recommend reading it

[@itsdivyag]

yeah my friend said to not read it whilst depressed which is... I am scared. thank you for the heads up!

[@imannatasha3302]

Pleaseeee make this a series you're so hilarious

[@booksandbubbletea]

WOW those Wordsworth classics are AWFUL… I’d rather just have a blank cover lol. And when I saw that Canadian SOC cover I literally DIED. They couldn’t have gone in a more wrong direction for the tone of that book. I could go on forever about the covers I hate 😅😅

[@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change]

The moment I saw the Dregs covers , I immediately thought of you. Like we may be in our Barbie era but no way are we doing pink and blue Six of Crows. At least I got to finally use the footage I shot of my reading Crooked Kingdom in a gothic dark academia uni

[@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change]

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[@a.a.g.h.1679]

8:27 the first version of the A Certain Hunger cover shreds so hard and the other version just flopped right onto the ground, tripped over nothing

[@miriammeyer9436]

Hi Divya! I just wanted to say that I got introduced to your videos a few days ago, and I have been binging your channel ever since. Your humor and intelligent is honestly so impressive and comforting. Thank you for bringing some light into my and my other bookish/graphic design people’s lives. Please keep making these videos as long as they bring you as much joy as the bring to the people who watch them. 💗💗💗

[@itsdivyag]

tears in my eyes this comment is so heartfelt and sweet. thank u I hope u enjoy ur time here and have a great rest of day/night

[@ninibanh1857]

so glad this came onto my front page recs... you're HILARIOUS. instant sub.

[@MsGloomyLamp]

Hope you make more of these, it was hillarious

[@itsdivyag]

more to come tysm for watching it :)

[@ColleanOBrien]

I read "The Bell Jar" when I was in high school and I would have appreciated the first cover you showed if that had been the one I was exposed to back then, because I feel it would have made me better identify with the main character - or even know before we read it that it was about a person instead of a jar (or maybe a rose? Looking up used book covers for this book I think that might have been the one I had. I remember the color scheme rather than the image. I didn't have the one with the concentric circles. If I did, I would have been disappointed it wasn't about Vertigo, because it reminds me of the poster for that Hitchcock film. But I digress. ) I remember reading somewhere when I was first exploring self publishing that people tend to gravitate more towards books that have images of people on them, at least psychologically That "Gatsby" cover though! I read that novel in high school as well, and we had that original blue cover you showed. I would have been SO EMBARRASSED if I had to carry a book with that updated cover around with me in high school. I guess they are trying to convey that it's a romance? Even so, I feel like that new cover could constitute false advertising.

[@specificsoup]

Ooooh I love how that unpublished great gatsby cover is yellow!!!! And the way his silhouette goes from white to black 🤔 iykyk

[@machinegunlament]

1:08 I was not expecting a shout out to some of my favorite cookbooks of all time 😳😳😳

[@cami6130]

The great gatsby original cover had such a cool story! I don’t know if anyone else commented this, but F Scott adjusted the book to MATCH the cover! Also, there’s a Broadway show of the Great Gatsby coming out…

[@asyirahsofia]

Finally someone talked about this. Pls make this a series

[@itsdivyag]

* rubs hands like a fly *

[@Miss_Witch13]

I saw the six of crows covers in stores but they were neon orange and blue, same design as the “baby shower” covers but with those colors…. Plus the colors were way more muted on crooked kingdom so they didn’t even match fully, one of the worst cover changes I have seen 😭

[@offthepoint2208]

Oh this needs to be a series

[@sabotabby]

Please do more of this it is giving me life.

[@missnoneofyourbusiness]

3:54 These are identical to the covers of a series of books called "Quihubole con" that were released in the 2000s in Mexico and were meant to be manuals about "everything you need to know about puberty". It was infamous for being saucy (there were the basics like PMS and how to wear a condom but also instructions on how to kiss and what "friends with benefits means") + it was cowritten by a comedian so it reeked "cool adult" energy. I swear it was the same palette as the pink one.

[@fade2008]

I can listen to you talk to a wall for a whole video. You're a natural entertainer and I hope you keep up the good work!! This video with its powerpoint presentation-esque style was especially fun to watch

[@kathia8014]

i had that cover of wuthering heights lmaaaaao and it had a "Edward and bellas favorite book!!1" sticker

[@princesssparrow4530]

Plsssss series, give us more international book tea