Welcome back to another travesty of democracy!

Here’s how it works:

On each of the next twelve days, I’ll post a ballot of one month’s worth of posted covers. You may pick UP TO THREE as the worst on each month for qualifying status. (As with last year, I’ve only included the covers that got at least one comment when originally posted.)  All ballots will remain open until January 15th.

On January 16th, I’ll post Round Two, bringing those covers from each ballot together in one final ballot.

And on January 31st, I’ll post the ten worst covers posted in 2021!

January 2021 Ballot

February 2021 Ballot

Welcome back to another travesty of democracy!

Here’s how it works:

On each of the next twelve days, I’ll post a ballot of one month’s worth of posted covers. You may pick UP TO THREE as the worst on each month for qualifying status. (As with last year, I’ve only included the covers that got at least one comment when originally posted.)  All ballots will remain open until January 15th.

On January 16th, I’ll post Round Two, bringing those covers from each ballot together in one final ballot.

And on January 31st, I’ll post the ten worst covers posted in 2021!

January 2021 Ballot

You’ve voted, you’ve waited, you’ve held rallies and protested in the streets… and now the results of the vote are finally upon us! Behold the Top Ten Worst Covers Posted in 2020!

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Okay, you lucky people! You’ve voted, and now… you get to vote some more!

I’ve taken the top three contenders voted from each month in 2020*, and put them into this cage match with each other.  Now pick your top three overall, and in a week’s time we’ll be able to narrow it to the Top Ten Bad Covers of 2020!

*In the case of a tie, I picked the cover with the most comments on its original post. Voting transparency is my middle name!

VOTING IS NOW OVER.

By popular demand! There were many notably bad book covers posted in 2020, but which were the absolute WORST? We’ll let you, the reader, decide in our first extra-unscientific and only moderately secure voting mechanism!

Here’s how it works:

Each link below goes to one month’s worth of posted covers. You may pick UP TO THREE on each month for qualifying status. (I’ve only included the covers that got at least one comment when originally posted.)

On January 15th, I’ll post Round Two.

If I need to after that, I’ll post a further eliminating round. (Democracy is hard.)

And on February 2nd, just in time to frighten groundhogs, I’ll post the Ten Ten Worst Covers posted in 2020!

The ballots:

• January 2020 Ballot
• February 2020 Ballot
• March 2020 Ballot
• April 2020 Ballot
• May 2020 Ballot
• June 2020 Ballot
• July 2020 Ballot
• August 2020 Ballot
• September 2020 Ballot
• October 2020 Ballot
• (no ballot for November 2020 because I was off NaNoWriMoing)
• December 2020 Ballot