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.

A book is weighed against its confreres in the same genre and a designer begins conceptualising anywhere up to 15 different directions. This is how a bestselling cover ends up with hordes of copycats.

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A book designer explains — and reveals how covers work There are lots of choices an illustrator makes in representing a book’s characters on its cover, including outfits and body size.

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Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.

The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour commanded shows just how influential and longlasting iconic covers can be.

Behind the Cover: BookTok’s Favorite Book Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Publishers should pay attention.

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them.

We’re all told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but most of us do! In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what ...

While book cover cakes might be a longstanding tradition from a baker’s perspective, they take on new resonance for authors in the age of social media.