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.

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Designing book covers is famously difficult. It's so hard we have an entire idiom that asks us not to judge the worth of something just because its cover turned out really, really ugly. From our ...

To stand out online, publishers push book designers for brighter, bolder covers. The hot color of the moment? Yellow.

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long deserved ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

“Going for the big literary book look is the biggest thing in cover design right now,” she says. “Big, white, usually centered text, over probably a very abstracted, colorful background ...

People love a good design trend story (guilty!). When it comes to book covers, it’s a delight to read about Frappucino unicorns, stacked silhouettes, and overgrown botanical borders. The only ...

If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader do a double take in slow motion. A good first impression is, of course, the goal ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers ...