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* Janni Lee Simner's ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0375845631/ Bones of Faerie]''.

* Cynthia Leitich Smith's ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0763635731/ Eternal]''.

* Lisa McMann's ''[http://lisamcmann.com/html/books.htm Wake]'' trilogy.

* Lisa McMann's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130124021246/http://lisamcmann.com/html/books.htm Wake]'' trilogy.

* Elizabeth Chandler's ''Dark Secrets'' series and ''Kissed By An Angel'' trilogy got [http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Elizabeth-Chandler/706206/books bind-up re-releases] with solitary [[symbolic]] items on a black background.

* Check out the [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1416989919/ new cover] for Marianne Curley's ''Old Magic''.

* Arguably ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0786839163/ The Warrior Heir]'' cover. Arguable, because it came out only a year after Twilight, before it really hit big.

* In a strange inversion, the [http://hollowtreetales.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/tithe.jpg 2004 paperback] of Holly Black's ''Tithe'' looks more Twilight-y than the [http://www.blackholly.com/youngadult.html recent re-design]. Perhaps that was intentional...

* In a strange inversion, the [http://hollowtreetales.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/tithe.jpg 2004 paperback] of Holly Black's ''Tithe'' looks more Twilight-y than the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726144238/http://www.blackholly.com/youngadult.html recent re-design]. Perhaps that was intentional...

* Compare the current cover of ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0738703915 Blue Is For Nightmares]'' with the [http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0738703915/ original 2003 edition]. Though not vastly different, the composition is very clearly Twilight-ish.

* The ''[http://harperteen.com/search/index.aspx?kw=hell From Hell]'' anthologies. Of course, [[Stephenie Meyer]] contributed a story to ''Prom Nights From Hell''.

* Alex Flinn's ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/006087418X/ Beastly]''

* Maggie Stiefvater's [~~http~~://~~www~~.maggiestiefvater.com/novels.php#faerie Books of Faerie]''.

* Maggie Stiefvater's [https://web.archive.org/web/20110624120321/http://maggiestiefvater.com/novels.php#faerie Books of Faerie]''.

* The teaser poster to ''[http://cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Cirque-du-Freak-The-Vampire-s-Assistant-3663.html?tid=22564 The Vampire's Assistant]'' (based on the first [[Darren Shan]] book). Because, hey, vampires!

* Even modern classic theological texts aren't safe! [[C.S. Lewis]]' ''[http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/165/529/400000000000000165529_s4.jpg Words to Live By]''.

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== ''[[Harry Potter]]''-inspired examples ==

[http://agoodspirit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ss-cover-large.jpg Cover of a slightly stylized pastel portrait of the hero with the title in a fantasy-ish font superimposed].

[http://agoodspirit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ss-cover-large.jpg Cover of a slightly stylized pastel portrait of the hero with the title in a fantasy-ish font superimposed]{{Dead link}}.

* Debra Doyle's ''Circle of Magic'' series not only got a [http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0590353403/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0 "Sorcerer's Stone"]-inspired [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0816769389/ facelift], but the ''titles'' changed too.

* The ''Charlie Bone'' books—both the [http://www.jennynimmo.me.uk/USTheCharlieBoneSeries.html US covers] and the [http://www.egmont.co.uk/search.asp?action=SearchBooks&pageid=3&intCharacterId=32 UK covers] reflect the design of their Potter counterparts.

* The ''Charlie Bone'' books—both the [http://www.jennynimmo.me.uk/USTheCharlieBoneSeries.html US covers] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130906234550/http://www.egmont.co.uk/search.asp?action=SearchBooks&pageid=3&intCharacterId=32 UK covers] reflect the design of their Potter counterparts.

* Brandon Mull's ''[http://www.amazon.com/Fablehaven-Brandon-Mull/dp/1416947205/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269115180&sr=8-3 Fablehaven]'' series.

* The [http://promo.simonandschuster.com/Spiderwick/ covers] for the ''[[Spiderwick Chronicles]]''.

* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605212233/http://promo.simonandschuster.com/Spiderwick/ covers] for the ''[[Spiderwick Chronicles]]''.

* Jack Kerouac wrote a book called Doctor Sax that came out in 1959. Look at this cover for the 2003 audio release [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jksaxsnakebk.JPG\] Also note the Potterian "and the Subtitle" that got tacked on.

* Jack Kerouac wrote a book called Doctor Sax that came out in 1959. Look at this cover for the 2003 audio release [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jksaxsnakebk.JPG\]{{Dead link}} Also note the Potterian "and the Subtitle" that got tacked on.

** To be fair, the subtitle was Kerouac's. That is an audio adaptation of a screenplay he wrote with that title.

* The covers to the ''[http://www.amazon.com/Percy-Jackson-Olympians-Paperback-Boxed/dp/1423113497/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269115320&sr=1-1 Percy Jackson]'' series.

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** Now, the first book bears remarkable similarities, but in later books the story shifts away from the Harry Potter franchise.

* Sarah Prineas's ''[http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Thief-Sarah-Prineas/dp/006137590X/ref=pd_sim_b_1 The Magic Thief]''.

* Recent editions of [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Chrestomanci]]'' books, for example [http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/biggies/caprona4.jpg this].

* Recent editions of [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Chrestomanci]]'' books, for example [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415185227/http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/biggies/caprona4.jpg this].

== "The Other Boleyn Girl"-inspired ==

[http://rosannelortz.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/other_boleyn_girl.jpg Historical fiction of heroine in period dress, partially obscured].

* Other Philippa Gregory examples: [http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/08/58/08588f326b984bf5979646859674141414c3441.jpg The Queen's Fool], [http://www.likesbooks.com/coverballot/2004/HST-04i.jpg The Virgin's Lover]

* Other Philippa Gregory examples: [http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/08/58/08588f326b984bf5979646859674141414c3441.jpg The Queen's Fool], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160221020249/http://www.likesbooks.com/coverballot/2004/HST-04i.jpg The Virgin's Lover]

* This [http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/ranews/sep2009/johnson.html article] discusses this trope in regards to historical fiction novels starring heroines. "Elizabeth Chadwick, a prizewinning British novelist who writes biographical fiction about the medieval English nobility, found that her sales more than quadrupled after her publisher commissioned a redesign with what she personally termed the "headless bodice" look."

* [http://literatehousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Cover-of-the-Last-Wife-of-Henry-VIII.JPG The Last Wife of Henry VIII]

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* [http://changehere.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/alchemists-daughter.jpg The Alchemist's Daughter]

* [http://literatehousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Cover-of-Her-Mothers-Daughter1.JPG Her Mother's Daughter]

* Has even extended past the Renaissance era royalty/nobility genre. [http://content.hclib.org/perl/syndetics/syndetics.pl?isbn=0446500127/MC.GIF&client=hennp The Widow of the South]

* Has even extended past the Renaissance era royalty/nobility genre. [http://content.hclib.org/perl/syndetics/syndetics.pl?isbn=0446500127/MC.GIF&client=hennp The Widow of the South]{{Dead link}}

== The Da Vinci Code-inspired examples ==

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* Paul Christopher's ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0451411862/ Michaelangelo's Notebook]''.

* David Gibbins' ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0553591193/ The Lost Tomb]''.

* [http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n38/n192416.jpg Sam Bourne's covers] bear a noticable resemblance to the [http://encefalus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/davinci_code.jpg UK edition] of ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.

* [http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n38/n192416.jpg Sam Bourne's covers] bear a noticable resemblance to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101225153203/http://encefalus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/davinci_code.jpg UK edition] of ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.