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There are some really fantastic book covers that hit shelves in the second quarter of this year. Designers have upped their game, creating compelling images intended to force readers to judge a book by their covers–and frankly, why shouldn’t you? So many of the covers here were ones I would likely have missed if I hadn’t been taken in by their looks.
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).
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