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.

Using typeface Windsor and a custom font, the book’s UK publishers Canongate went with the same design. Munichs by David Peace; Publisher: Faber; Designer: Luke Bird; Art Director: Pete Adlington This ...

publishers rarely see anything other than the cover, but books should be designed as a whole. A coherent concept – this is exactly what Hochuli wrote about and what is written (or at least should be ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...

Art director: Jonathan Pelham. Valleyesque by Fernando A Flores; Design: Na Kim; Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux A book cover you can almost read with its series of icons collected together in a ...