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 ...

Photograph by Alex Plechko If most book covers get five-second glances, spend 15 with this one. After a time, you’ll notice little bouncing gestures with the type. Then you’ll notice the speck.

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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.

Where have all the torsos gone? The photorealistic “clinch cover,” featuring lovers mid-embrace, is a critically endangered species. Fabio? Hasn’t been seen around these parts in years.

Kidd, an associate art director at publisher Alfred A. Knopf, has designed book covers for the past 25 years for authors like Cormac McCarthy, John Updike, David Sedaris and Michael Crichton.

Alas, no. I'm sorry, America. As beautiful as our book covers are, some other countries are cranking out book covers even more eye-catching, affecting, and all-around gorgeous.