What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I'm working on a project where I'd like to find relatively well-known books with a chess piece or pieces on the cover. Chess instructional books aren't what I'm going for. I already know about

, , , and of course . Any more ideas?

Probably some more good ones here:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/30...

Sometimes the foreign language editions have more explicitly chess-themed covers than the English language ones. You may want to look at every cover/edition of each book.

Here's another one

Here's some I found. Some of them are certainly not well known, and you may not be able to use them, but I'll let you decide.




There's a few Astounding Science fiction magazines with chess on the cover, and I found some comic books that also have a chess piece on the cover. I found them with a google picture search and just scrolled through.

The Kings Are Already Here

There may be yet more books/book covers on these lists:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/30...
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/38...
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11...

Could it be any other game besides chess, or just chess?

Will these work? Some are nonfiction, but not how to play books:

by Margery Allingham.

This is well known by lovers of English mysteries, and the Campion series (of which this is one) has been televised by the BBC starring former Doctor Who Peter Davison.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Breaking dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Sorry. I didn't see the picture in the first post.

Thanks!

Books by Nenia Campbell: . There's a third book in this trilogy, which is not yet published, so I'm not sure what the cover looks like!

The Quillan Games by D.J. MacHale

Do they have to be in English?

Some editions of The Luzhin Defense have chess pieces on the cover, although these seem to be mostly the non-English editions, e.g.

The Castle of Yew by Lucy M. Boston
"...on finding a lawn created like a chess board with pansy-and-turf squares and yew cut into the shapes of the chess pieces..."
various covers

Wow, who knew there were so many? You'll have to be sure to tell us when to stop lol

(also cover for different edition here).

There is an entire article on covers with chess/checkers here.

If you'll accept comic books, there's this :)

Michele wrote: "If you'll accept comic books, there's this :) "

And this." ;)

The cover of The Faces Of Fear by Monica Hughes relates to chess (I just read the scene it's associated with).

One of the covers of The Game by A. S. Byatt.

I'm trying to find a children's fiction book that I thought had chess pieces in a garden in the background but it was too hard to tell on the blurred cover, now I forget what the title/author was. Browsing for it and finding others in the meantime. I don't know if these have already been mentioned. Entering text title and author to make checking easier.
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (more than one cover has chess pieces)
- The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs (Cover)
- The Amazing Adventure of Dan the Pawn
by Simon Garrow (Cover)
- The Princess Pawn by Maggie L. Wood (Cover - pawn in her hand)
- Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club by Janet S. Wong (Cover)
- Grandmaster by David Klass (Cover)

- Charlie and the chess set by Duane Porter (Cover)
- The Case of the Midnight Chess Game by Wolfgang Ecke (Cover)
- The case of the captured queen by Carolyn Keene (Cover appears to have a rook on it?)
- Knight's fee by Rosemary Sutcliff (Cover)
- The King's Chessboard by David Birch (Cover - it's small, but it's there, a chessboard)
- Your Move, J.P.! by Lois Lowry (Cover - also has a chessboard on the cover, I've read this one!)
- Chess-Dream in a Garden by Rosemary Sutcliff (Cover)
- Perpetual check by Rich Wallace (Cover)
- The Magic Mean Machine by Beatrice Gormley (Cover appears to be a more recent edition; no idea if original cover has chess on it)
- Checkmate Julie by Linda Jacobs Altman (Cover - again another little chessboard)
- Freddie Loses His Game by Dorian Clay (Cover)
- The warlock of night by Dahlov Zorach Ipcar (Cover front and back, nice one; plot)
- The Josie Gambit by Mary Francis Shura (Cover - the original edition Dodd, Mead & Company, has chess pieces)
- Captured by Maggie L Wood (Cover)
- Queens are Wild by Jack Chaucer (Cover)

Argh, still haven't found it.

Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice

bookel wrote: "- Charlie and the chess set by Duane Porter (Cover)
- The Case of the Midnight Chess Game by Wolfgang Ecke (Cover)
- The case of the captured queen by Carolyn Keene (Cover appears to have a rook on..."

How about Free Fall by David Wiesner? There are no chess pieces on the cover, but it's an amazing and beautiful picture book in which a boy tangles up all the mundane items in his life in a strange chessboard garden dreamscape.

Curiosity

I see this is an old thread but I am at my wit's end. Years ago (probably 1989-1990) I read an adult historical fiction novel about an ancient chess set found in the ruins of a French convent and it was thought to have belonged to the Knights Templar. I have Googled and Googled but cannot find anything remotely like it. I remember the paperback cover was a dark blue or purple and it had a chess piece on the cover; something about the pieces had been scattered to the four corners of the earth and they couldn't be reunited again or something bad would happen. ANY IDEAS MOST GRATEFU!

Laura wrote: "I see this is an old thread but I am at my wit's end. Years ago (probably 1989-1990) I read an adult historical fiction novel about an ancient chess set found in the ruins of a French convent and i..."

Laura, please create a new thread (topic) for your book request. Here's a link to get started - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This is a general discussion thread for any book with "Chess pieces on cover."

Laura wrote: "I see this is an old thread but I am at my wit's end. Years ago (probably 1989-1990) I read an adult historical fiction novel about an ancient chess set found in the ruins of a French convent and i..."

Laura, although your post is misplaced, I believe you're thinking of The Eight by Katherine Neville. Tonks referenced it in the first post back in 2012.

I don't think I have seen this one in the list - and I apologize if I overlooked it. Book 4 out of the Naturals Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. The whole series is great! Like a teenage version of TV Series Criminal Minds!