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

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them.

Meg Cabot was sad COVID canceled book festivals, so she wrote a novel set at one Get an exclusive first look at the cover of No Words.

Those snippets of praise on book covers have been around for over 150 years (at least). But how do they get there — and why? The answers are more complicated, and compelling, than you might think.

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be a couple of months into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

At Nerdist, we believe that Pride Month extends beyond just the 30 days of June. We also believe that, wherever possible, any ...

Time to put your pearls on so you can clutch them, because these are some seriously scandalous book covers. Now, I'm not talking about classic romance novel covers with a strapping, half-naked man ...

The translator Jennifer Croft will no longer work with publishers who don’t put her name on the cover. Readers “should know who chose the words they’re going to read,” she says. Magdalena ...

A Day With No Words gives an inside look into the life of an Autism family who communicates just as the child does, without spoken language.

Thomas Taylor's original cover illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) is expected to break auction records at Sotheby's on June 26.

The issue of crediting translators on book covers has been a topic of discussion within the literary translation community for decades, and little has changed over that time.