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.

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 ...

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them. The version that ended up being scrapped is on left, the final ...

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 ...

Of course, book designers still make use of photographic images, but for some years a more hand-made, hand-crafted creativity has edged into this ever-evolving area of design. I’ve picked the below ...

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) has revealed its winners for the best book designs of the year in addition to a special competition for the “winner of ...

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 ...

There’s no easy way to describe the cover for Salman Rushdie’s Knife, which is why it’s one of the best book covers of the ... found her solution in The Designers Foundry’s Wulkan Display.

“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 ...