Similar Covers: Girl with Mirror

Here’s another lookalike duo: Life Sentences by Laura Lippman and Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin. I also came across the original image (I presume), which was used to illustrate an article called “Femininity as Mental Illness” by Melanie McGrath on the Telegraph.co.uk site (the article is actually a review of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi).

Here are two other covers of the same books (Levenslang is the Dutch translation of Life Sentences):

I actually think I prefer these two covers: I like the fact that the book title on Lippman’s book is not obscuring the girl’s body, and the slanted image on Martin’s book makes it more eye-catching.

Martin’s book was published first, by Free Press in 2007, while Lippman’s book came out with William Morrow in 2009. In this case, however, it seems to me that it’s less of a big deal that the cover image was reused, since the books are in such different genres and the covers are also really different. What do you think?