Book Cover Meme Dishonorable Mentions: These books made a big impression on me when i was younger and might have made the list, if the authors had not later turned out to be assholes. Do Not Buy. #BookSky#Books#BookChallenge

Just because of the way the images got cropped, i feel compelled to add for anyone who doesn't click through that Harry Turtledove is not an asshole (or at least i've only ever heard good things about him.) He just happened to contribute a prominent cover blurb for that book =P

Yeaaah, David Eddings was hugely influential to me - one of his books was the first thing I ever read in English (making me a Swedish 12yo with "crenellations" in my vocab) but. Oof. No. Even though he's dead I just feel gross thinking about him now. And I enjoyed Ender's Game, before I knew...