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.

As a kid, Matt Stevens and his neighbor used to hunker down and get set up for a game of flick football. Stevens was always the Cowboys. His neighbor was always the Steelers. Only problem was ...

Nobody in the book trade believes that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Publishers spend a lot of money hoping that's exactly what you will do. And some of that money is spent on Chip Kidd ...

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 ...

“When you’re reading a book, you are imagining the whole thing happening. I want space for people to be able to do that.” These covers speak to the rom-com audience’s yearning for a ...

The book covers look like well-worn paperbacks you’d find on a spinner rack in a secondhand shop, but these aren’t actual novels. The creased and worn covers for films like “A Quiet Place ...

Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions ...

Social media is changing the way writers are promoting their books. Author Rebecca Makkai talks about her decision to take a ...

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a ...

“The View” co-hosts melted down on Tuesday while discussing the new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson about the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s decline while in ...

Marvel Comics is relaunching Fantastic Four with a new series from writer Ryan North and Humberto Ramos. Today, we have a ...