The Best Book Covers of 2023 The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year.

Former House Speaker John Boehner is the latest Washington DC luminary with a tell-all book deal — and the cover art alone is worth the purchase price.

Superman has just proven to be one of pop culture’s most valuable heroes, with the cover of Action Comics #1 selling for an astonishing price.

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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.

It turns out an old saying might be wrong. You can judge a book by its cover, in a sense. Authors and cover designers say there’s a lot you can glean from a book’s front.

An ominous-looking character pops—literally—from the front of Malice, Chris Wooding’s YA novel about London teens who get trapped in a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book ...

With the advent of plastic bags to carry purchases, the brown bag went by the wayside -- and so did DIY textbook covers.

Whoever did wants you to know—as soon as you pick up the book, in fact. That’s why translators are demanding that book publishers credit them on the front covers of the books they translate.

As Fitzgerald’s classic enters the public domain, 3 cover designers face the “nerve-wracking” struggle of redesigning its jacket.

A prominent writer claimed Cruz's new book on the U.S. justice system features a Soviet era statue on the front cover.