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This post is auto-generated from RSS feed BOOK RIOT. Source: End Of The Year Eye Candy: Still More of the Best Book Covers of 2025

We’ve reached the end of 2025, which means it’s time to celebrate the best in book covers from our final months of the year. Every quarter so far, I’ve pulled together the most interesting, unique, and eye-catching book covers. It might be a quieter time in publishing, especially in November and December, but there are so many great cover designs to spotlight from the fourth quarter.

Book cover design is interesting because it’s got to play to some trends, got to play to some conventions of genre and age category, and because it’s got to play to consumer tastes. We need book covers to sell a book—it’s the number one marketing opportunity for any title. But we need those covers to also give insight into the story and to be nice to look at and to be easy to render on mobile.

Important to all of this is the team behind the cover’s creation. For too long—and still to this day—cover designers and artists are rarely credited for their work. The time it takes to find this information is embarrassing in 2025, and still, many of the covers you’ll see below don’t have this information available. Publishers still don’t put it on the landing pages for these books, so it takes good Googling and a lot of luck to dig up names to credit. Unfortunately, this also makes it easier for AI-generated art to get through to book covers (which we started to see last year). This quarter may be one of the worst ones in a long time for finding this information, which is a shame because last quarter was one of the best.

One of the other fun things to notice throughout the year are the trends we see in cover design. Something other book outlets have pointed out in cover design is the trend to use works of art as the background for cover design. This won’t be slowing down into the rest of the year or into 2026, either.

Find below a number of the most interesting, visually surprising, and best book covers of 2025 from the fourth quarter of this year. These covers are for adult fiction only, as there are entire posts’ worth of covers for nonfiction, YA, middle grade, and children’s books. Because my earlier roundup of the best book covers for 2025’s new and forthcoming short story collections didn’t capture some of the books that hit shelves in the second half of the year, you’ll see short story collections here, too.

All of the covers featured here are for books published between October 1 and December 31, 2025. I’ve done my best to track down credit. You can and should check out the best book covers from the first quarter of this year, the second quarter of this year, and the third quarter of this year.

And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes by A. M. Sosa Is there anything more unsettling than an animal that has human body parts? The answer is possibly, but that such animal-human hybrids are pretty dang unsettling. The cover for this book features a black bird of some sort with a ferocious looking expression, conjoined with the relaxed arms and legs posture of a human. That would be enough to make this a cool cover. But it’s the enegetic background and clashing green and red colors, grounded with black, that take it up a notch. There’s nothing Christmas feeling here, despite the color combination. The title and author font and wavy setting get bonus points.

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