Welcome to March and the third month of the 2025 Read with MLC Reading Challenge! This month's goal is to read a book with a woman on the cover. This not-so-subtle nod to Women's History Month should have you examining the covers of the books you are reading just as closely as you do their insides. In The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri says “The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that a cover is a sort of translation, that is, an interpretation of my words in another language -- a visual one. It represents the text, but isn't part of it. It can't be too literal. It has to have its own take on the book." How does your chosen book portray the women pictured? Does it meet the expectations you formed once you read the book or does the cover seem to follow a book cover trend that does little to show off the story it surrounds, like the women looking away phenomenon. It’s so much of a trope that we even created this test to see if our followers could spot a fake.
Our staff had some fun suggesting their own books with women on the cover, either ones they plan to read or ones they've already enjoyed. Catch their suggestions after the jump!
