Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

Look very closely The grassy enclave is shaped like an eye, a reference to the book’s surveillance themes. A version of this article appears in print on , Section C , Page 1 of the New York ...

Below, Reed chose eight lesser-known book cover designs that are exceptional. [Photo: courtesy Jesse Reed] 1. PRESENT PAST, PAST PRESENT, 1971 “This is a stop-me-in-my-tracks book cover,” says ...

The abstract cover art for the Camus Collection was created by the cover designer Helen Yentus back in 1989, but it's still used by Vintage today. Designers have been giving it a lot of love over on ...

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and ...

A deep neural network, which has four layers of up to 512 neurons each, was able to correctly identify what genre a book belongs to just by analyzing its cover. The resulting rate of accuracy is ...

130 years after ‘The Yellow Book’ changed book cover design, one of the most notable book covers to grab the attention of readers was for Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestseller, ‘Yellowface’.

Local bookstores will have a larger selection of great covers, and you can also find gems at used booksellers, my personal choice for book consumption. When you begin to judge a book by its cover, you ...