“A picture says a thousand words” – these words have been written on book cover and I think it’s really the truth. The book cover is one element that usually catches the most attention of the readers and visual memorisation is the strongest one. Without reading the entire book, you could be able to get the concept of the story just by looking at the book cover design.
In this post, I compiled a list of beautiful book cover designs created in a lot of different style such as photo-based, typographic, and black & white. Hope this showcase will inspire you in creating your own unique book cover. Get inspired!
Photo-Based Book Cover
1. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
2. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
3. This I Believe Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
4. The Tourists by Jeff Hobbs
5. Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay
6. Seventeen Seventeen Jerome by Richard Thornley
7. Under the Dome by Stephen King
8. Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
9. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
10. The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo by Darrin Doyle
11 . The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
12. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
13. Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate
14. The Pieces from Berlin by Michael Pye
15. At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
16. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
17. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
18. Experience by Martin Amis
19. Why Kerouac Matters by John Leland
20. Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly
21. Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough
22. The Essential Tales of Chekhov Edited by Richard Ford
23. The Distaff Side by Elizabeth Palmer
24. The River Wife by Jonis Agee
25. Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy
26. Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
27. Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
28. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
29. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
30. Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’Easter by Lisa Patton
Typographic – Based Book Cover
31 . Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
32. Eight Weeks of Bruce by Maya Contreras
33. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
34. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty
35. Jenny & The Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett
36. Lose Weight Through Great Sex With Celebrities by Colin McEnroe
37. Man Alone With Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
38. Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
39. Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolano
40. Outer Dark by Outer Dark
41. Slagschaduw by Harmen Boerboom
42. Stone by Adam Roberts
43. The American Civil War by John Keegan
44. The Areas Of My Expertise by John Hodgman
45. The Future Of An Illusion by Sigmund Freud
46. Last Magazine by David Renard
47. The Next Hundred Million – America In 2050 by Joel Kotkin
48. What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
49. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields
50.Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
51. Astonishing Splashes Of Colour by Clare Morrall
52. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
53. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
54. I’m OK by Thomas Harris
55. Love Today by Maxim Biller
56. Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
57. The Angry Island by A.A. Gill
58. The End by Marq de Villiers
59. The Last Days Of Publishing by Tom Engelhardt
60. The Lost Art Of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
61. The Seven Days Of Peter Crumb by Jonny Glynn
62. The Unabridged Pocket Book Of Lightning by Jonathan Safran Foer
63. What Is All This by Stephen Dixon
Black and White – Based Book Cover
64. Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
65. You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
66. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
67. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
68. Portraits by A. J. Liebling
69. Beromda Bocker by Bokförlaget DN
70. Confessions of a Mask by H. Mishima
71. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt
72. Eternal Light by Paul McAuley
73. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
74. Eon by Greg Bear
75. Ringworld by Larry Niven
76. Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon
77. Ilium by Dan Simmons
78. The Trial by Franz Kafka
79. Violence by Slavoj Zizek
80. Players by Don Delillo
81. Type Addicted by Victionary
82. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
83. Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
84. Competition by James Case
85. High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler by Brian O’Dea
86. The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg
87. The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
88. Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … and the World by Courtney Humphries
89. The Boat by Nam Le
90. The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
Your book cover can really represent what you are writing and what you really are. It is a form a communication to your target readers so choose and design the right book cover that you will use.
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