Contemporary book covers

Read 259 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens…

Illustration, Graphic Design

Read 150 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the …

Towards the end of last year we spotted the delightfully designed book covers of Janet Hansen in The New York Times’ _The Best Book Covers of 2016_ list. The chosen design was a typographic illusion cover of Rebecca Schiff’s novel _The Bed Moved_, that would stop any avid reader or design fiend in their tracks. After discovering that Janet is a designer at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, we soon unearthed an array of thoughtfully apt book covers.

The Book Review’s art director picks his favorite covers from a year that reminded him of the joys of picking up a book and holding it in his hands.

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Read 5,953 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector o…

For my second celebratory post I go to the book covers of Chinua Achebe, but not just any of his covers. I focus on the series designed by Cuban-American illustrator and artist, Edel Rodriguez, with art direction from Helen