Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

“Two women are at the center of the cover. The art instantly drew me in with its soft, warm tones contrasted by the bold, heavy font playfully composed over the cover. The two women, their black ...

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Also, it follows that a broken machine on the front cover could only ever lead to garbled text on the back. The designer obliged with what feels like a perverse joy. This book has two back covers ...

Publishers put a lot of weight on a book cover’s success, often switching the design from hardcover to paperback if sales haven’t met expectations. Highlighted here are some of 2021’s best ...

Fully Booked asked its artist friends — from graphic artists to watercolorists to photographers — what the best book covers are for them so that readers may be able to learn from them how to ...

“Anna Morrison has been consistently pushing the bar year after year with her beautiful book cover designs. It was hard to choose just one of her covers, but for me, Pacemaker by David Toms stood ou ...

How well did they do this year? We asked five designers to judge the best book covers of 2022. Their choices highlight the variety of styles and techniques artists use to capture the essence of ...

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How the smaller world of book cover design fares within this environment isn’t necessarily a concern high ... a painting by Toyin Ojih Odutola — and the image itself is constructed from twists of what ...

My reading of the brief sort of set this book, and its potential cover, somewhere between Valley ... to simply compliment Scott B. Henderson's beautiful portrait of a girl lost in thought." ...