If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, ... Page 20 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Bestbook covers of 2024.

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 a book is going to be about, or pique their interest in the story.

Now a copy of one of those rare, first-edition soft-cover books will cost you as much as $9,500. Three years later, the first U.S. edition, from Putnam, was little more than a white square.

Book covers have always sold – or oversold – their contents. Like all art, book design is a sign of the times: of consumer whims and cultural advances.

The stories behind Haruki Murakami’s biggest book covers, from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to Norwegian Wood to 1Q84.

With book covers that look like Barbie doll boxes, “literary women are often dragged into the field of the very kind of fiction against which literary [fiction] is defined.” ...

The year's best covers, as chosen by the art director of The New York Times Book Review. However ornamental book jackets may be, they are also entry points to both the good and bad ideas that ...