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.

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 judge a ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

(This is due to the influence of vector design, which composes in points and equations, not pixels, and emphasizes shape over texture ... breed other success. Book covers are primarily a marketing ...

Sifting through my own stuff for a low-cost way to fill the void, I found just the thing: a set of fifty vibrant postcards featuring midcentury book covers by legendary graphic designer Alvin Lustig.

The year's best covers, as chosen by the art director of The New York Times Book Review. When considering the book as a whole, I prefer that the interiors contain answers and the covers ask questions.

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has ...

Nonfiction covers seek to use imagery that conveys exactly what the book contains. For example: "How To Raise Chickens In Your Studio Apartment [might have] an image of a rooster standing in the ...

The question is seen as a vital one for publishers keen to preserve the traditional paper book. Why? Because a tactile, finger-friendly cover can often mean the difference between a strong seller ...

The feud centered around the cover art used for The Stricken, a novel authored by Morgan Shamy and published by CamCat Books. Shamy teased the book in a video early in July, showing off its cover ...