Books displayed on a shelf in a shop need to attract prospective buyers, and the first and most important way that can be done is with an eye-catching cover design. Whether it is very significant to the content of the book, or completely ‘off the wall’ in its design, it is what is going to make people pick the book up and read the back cover.
There are many articles advising designers to look around them and to look everywhere for inspiration, and perhaps some do walk into bookshops and browse the book and magazine cover designs, but I am guessing most don’t often have either the time or the inclination to do that, so today we are bringing you a collection of beautifully designed book covers for your inspiration – some new, some old, and in many and varying styles of design, just like browsing a book store.
Beautifully Designed Book Covers for Inspiration
Empire Rising
Wall Street
And Then There’s This
Exit A
Triangular Road
Super Sad True Love Story
Uncommon Sense
An Ethics of Interrogation
Raising The Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation
The Storm
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The King Of Methlehem
Incendiary
The Luzhin Defense
The Naked Pint
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
One To Nine
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Resistance
Hunger
The Weight Of Nothing
Sweet Bird of Youth
A Taste of the Unexpected
The Opposite House
The Kingdom of Infinite Space
Dangerous Frames
Stone
Uberpower
The Catastrophist
The Age of Entanglement
Black Seconds
The Bug
Voices
The Almond Picker
Then We Came To The End
Religion Explained
The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky
Pragmatism: A Reader
Tiepolo Pink
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivot
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
Predictive Analytics
The Art of Zentangle
The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Surfaces and Essences
Conclusion
Hopefully you have been inspired by these book cover designs, and have gained some ideas for your future projects. In website design ‘content is king’, and in books, content is not just king it is everything, however, there still needs to be a draw to attract prospective readers, and books have a small, front page area to do just that.
Please share your opinions with us. Do you know of other beautiful book cover designs that we have missed from this list? Which of those featured above is your favorite? It’s over to you!
