Are You a YA Cover Expert?

For a whereas, I assumed I used to be an skilled at recognising by the quilt alone if a e book was a younger grownup novel or a novel for adults. Then, sooner or later, I picked up an audiobook I used to be completely satisfied was YA, however obtained to such steamy scenes, that I needed to cease in my tracks to reevaluate every little thing I assumed I knew about e book covers. I realized my lesson.

Of course, whereas all this feels like a mere lack of consideration on my half – an assumption that every one YA covers look a technique whereas grownup novel covers look one other – it’s attention-grabbing to notice that I, like many others, usually have a tendency to affiliate illustrated covers with YA, or with romance novels.

Our editor Kelly has written a wonderful evaluation on the illustrated cowl development in romance, and what that claims about girls’s pursuits, so it’s possible you’ll need to learn it as a thought-provoking addition to this quiz.

But onto the quiz! Because, after my steamy scene incident (which I take into account a completely happy accident), I began to pay extra consideration to covers and realized to imagine much less and search for indicators extra. And I’ve been seeing some progress in my sport of recognizing YA vs Adult based mostly on the quilt alone.

Are you keen to check your individual detecting senses?

The guidelines of this quiz are easy: every slide options two e book covers, one YA novel and one not, and you must spot (or guess) the YA one! AND… there’s one difficult query within the center too, to check your senses.

You have your outcomes, however you’re nonetheless keen to search out out which covers are YA or not? Check the titles under (and since this quiz is all about covers, I’ve added the quilt designers I used to be capable of finding)!

Adult Novels

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, cowl design by Michael Morris

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, cowl design by Tiffany Estreicher

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar, cowl design by Ari Honarvar

Young Adult Novels

Home Is Not A Country by Safia Elhillo, cowl design by Shaylin Wallace

Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, cowl design Lisa Perrin

Yolk by Mary H. Ok. Choi, cowl design by ohgigue

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

Enjoyed this quiz? Book Riot has a bunch of cover-related quizzes for you, like this AI-generated covers, and even a cover-recognition skilled version.