Book Cover Archive

1,382 beautiful book
covers by 333 designers.

1,382 beautiful book covers by 333 designers.

Fiction

cover of The Chess Machine

cover of Street Haunting

cover of Honored Guest

cover of U.S.!: Songs and Stories

cover of Leviathan

cover of House of Meetings

cover of Two Stars

cover of The Secret Goldfish

cover of The School Inspector Calls

cover of Birds of America: Stories

cover of Bowl of Cherries

cover of This Is Not Civilization

cover of The Bird Catcher

cover of Jane Eyre

cover of The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

cover of My Life at First Try

cover of Blood Meridian

cover of Demonology

cover of Candide

cover of Under the Clock

cover of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

cover of The Myth of Sisyphus

cover of The Average American Male: A Novel

cover of From Russia with Love

cover of The Catcher in the Rye

cover of You Don't Love Me Yet

cover of The Trial

cover of The Opposite House

cover of The Mirror of Ink

cover of Sunset and Sawdust

cover of Slapstick

cover of Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown

cover of Lost City Radio

cover of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

cover of The Uses of Enchantment

cover of Peace

cover of Blood Splatters Quickly

cover of Oh the Glory of It All

cover of Men and Cartoons

cover of Tyll

cover of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living

cover of The Revolution of Little Girls

cover of The Names

cover of One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box

cover of The Rebels

cover of John Henry Days

cover of The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

cover of Locke 1928

cover of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

cover of Mortimer of the Maghreb

cover of Wonderful World: A Novel

cover of The Friends of Freeland

cover of No Country for Old Men

cover of Nocturno de Chile

cover of Artists and Models

cover of War and Peace

cover of Mao II

cover of Falling Man: A Novel

cover of Best American Gay Fiction #2

cover of The Egg Code

cover of The Loss of Leon Meed

cover of The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

cover of The Storm

cover of Curtain Creek Farm

cover of The Catastrophist

cover of The Resurrectionist

cover of The Fuck-Up

cover of Utopia

cover of Summer in Algiers

cover of Amerika

cover of The Complete Stories

cover of Exit A

cover of Last Last Chance

cover of Presence: Stories

cover of Guess Again

cover of The Feast of the Goat

cover of Like You'd Understand, Anyway

cover of The Desert and the Dancing Girls

cover of The Scales of Justice

cover of My Side of the Matter

cover of Palo Alto

cover of The Orchard Keeper

cover of McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

cover of The Sheriff of Yrnameer

cover of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

cover of Omon Ra

cover of Three Delays

cover of Survivor

cover of The Cheese Monkeys

cover of As She Climbed Across the Table

cover of Last Things

cover of Everything Is Illuminated

cover of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

cover of The Economics of Innocent Fraud

cover of Afterwards

cover of Labyrinths

cover of Into the Tunnel

cover of Transparent Things

cover of The Commissariat of Enlightenment

cover of The Halfway House

cover of The Castle

cover of Crime

cover of On Seeing and Noticing

cover of End Zone

cover of After Dark

cover of The Storm

cover of The Last King of Scotland

cover of Invitation to a Beheading

cover of Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto

cover of Wide Eyed

cover of Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance

cover of In the Woods

cover of The Ruined Map

cover of A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies

cover of The Book of Revelation

cover of The Hakawati

cover of Flash Fiction Forward

cover of Flying Leap

cover of The Dead Fish Museum

cover of Terrorist

cover of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

cover of Earthquake Weather

cover of The Verificationist

cover of Everything You Know

cover of Dead Astronauts

cover of Just After Sunset: Stories

cover of The Greening of Ben Brown

cover of Never Let Me Go

cover of Great Jones Street

cover of Kockroach

cover of Bend Sinister

cover of A Good and Happy Child

cover of Moral Disorder

cover of Young Bysshe

cover of Notable American Women

cover of Birthday

cover of The Catcher in the Rye

cover of Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

cover of The Broom of the System

cover of That's When the Knives Come Down

cover of Breakfast at Tiffany's

cover of Stripper Lessons

cover of Less Than Zero

cover of The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri

cover of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

cover of Calamity

cover of Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

cover of Despair

cover of Words Without Borders

cover of Where I Was

cover of Project X

cover of The Lambs of London

cover of Outer Dark

cover of Ring

cover of Mr. Peanut

cover of You Poor Monster

cover of Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

cover of The Colossus of Maroussi

cover of Zeno's Conscience

cover of Pigtopia

cover of You Think That's Bad

cover of Then We Came to the End

cover of The Annotated Nose

cover of The Secret Annexe

cover of A Partisan's Daughter

cover of Something Is Out There

cover of White Noise

cover of In For A Pound

cover of Survivor

cover of The House of Sleep

cover of Money

cover of Glue

cover of Sweet Bird of Youth

cover of Letters from Four Seasons

cover of The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing

cover of Spade & Archer

cover of Nice Big American Baby

cover of There Once Live A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

cover of No Country For Old Men

cover of Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson

cover of Fallen

cover of New Bedlam

cover of Slaughterhouse-Five

cover of Trauma

cover of The Face of Another

cover of Outlaws, Blobs, and Other Things

cover of Wizard of the Crow

cover of The Gone-Away World

cover of Poe's Children

cover of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

cover of Wake Up, Sir!

cover of Breakfast of Champions

cover of Lucky Girls: Stories

cover of A Wild Sheep Chase

cover of Sacred Games

cover of Pnin

cover of The Aristocratic Adventurer

cover of Chicago

cover of The Fastidious Assassins

cover of Fly on the Wall

cover of Against the Day

cover of Crash

cover of Battle Royale

cover of In the Land of No Right Angles

cover of Resistance

cover of Speak, Memory

cover of Clown Girl

cover of The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories

cover of Secret Rendezvous

cover of Hocus POTUS

cover of The Worst Thing A Suburban Girl Could Imagine

cover of Like You'd Understand, Anyway

cover of The Grand Inquisitor

cover of On Shopping

cover of El Tercer Reich

cover of The Crossing

cover of Fortress of Solitude

cover of Sea of Poppies

cover of The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie

cover of The Bug

cover of Theft

cover of Homo Zapiens

cover of On the Road

cover of Bluebeard

cover of sex.lies.murder.fame.

cover of Octopussy and The Living Daylights

cover of Perfume

cover of The Druid King

cover of The Mother Garden

cover of The Last Witchfinder

cover of Americana

cover of The Enchanter

cover of Material Material

cover of Martha and Hanwell

cover of Vintage Amis

cover of Nice Big American Baby

cover of South of the Border, West of the Sun

cover of Snake

cover of The Heretic's Daughter

cover of The Glass Bead Game

cover of A Thousand Cuts

cover of Our Lady of the Forest

cover of All Things Cease to Appear

cover of Lolita

cover of The Middle of the Night

cover of Ministry of Special Cases

cover of The Myth of Sisyphus

cover of The Book Against God

cover of Best Friends

cover of The Luzhin Defense

cover of Superdove

cover of Conspicuous Consumption

cover of About Grace

cover of The Memory Keeper's Daughter

cover of Death in the Bunker

cover of The Song of Names

cover of The Long Road of the Junkmailer

cover of In Defence of English Cooking

cover of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

cover of The King's Evil

cover of Not to Disturb

cover of Undiscovered Gyrl

cover of The Tattoo Artist

cover of Manhood for Amateurs

cover of Natasha : And Other Stories

cover of Noise

cover of An Underachiever's Diary

cover of Murder

cover of Look at the Harlequins!

cover of A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies

cover of Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s

cover of Sexy Librarian

cover of Come to Me: Stories

cover of The Girl Who Played with Fire

cover of Jeeves and the Impending Doom

cover of Idiot Nation

cover of The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

cover of Indecision

cover of Blood?s a Rover

cover of Penumbra

cover of The Egg Code

cover of War Talk

cover of November 22, 1963

cover of Show of Hands

cover of NoVA: A Novel

cover of The Visible Man: A Novel

cover of The Dream Life of Sukhanov

cover of The Country of the Blind

cover of Iron, Potassium, Nickel

cover of Lullaby

cover of The Great Wall of China

cover of The Queen in Hell Close

cover of Him Her Him Again The End of Him

cover of Everything Matters!

cover of Tooth and Claw

cover of King, Queen, Knave

cover of The Assassin's Song

cover of The Terror

cover of Running Dog

cover of Drinks Before Dinner

cover of The Fountainhead

cover of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

cover of The Yiddish Policemen's Union

cover of Glory

cover of Forgetting Things

cover of Silk Parachute

cover of The Snobs

cover of Player Piano

cover of No One Belongs Here More Than You

cover of Cities of the Plain

cover of The Seven Days of Peter Crumb

cover of Madras on Rainy Days

cover of Ruby

cover of The Secrets of a Fire King

cover of Making It Up

cover of Tarzan's Tonsillitis

cover of Animal Farm

cover of Men and Cartoons

cover of Love Today

cover of What the Thunder Said

cover of Best American Gay Fiction #3

cover of History Lesson for Girls

cover of Snuff

cover of A Taste of the Unexpected

cover of The Makioka Sisters

cover of Rant

cover of The Learners

cover of The Unconsoled

cover of Invisible Monsters

cover of Otherwise Pandemonium

cover of The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction

cover of Eleanor Rigby

cover of My Hard Bargain

cover of True History of the Kelly Gang:

cover of Los Detectives Salvajes

cover of Vita

cover of Empire Rising

cover of An Experiment in Love

cover of L.A. Rex

cover of The Jewish Messiah

cover of The Silver Linings Playbook

cover of The Unabridged Pocket Book of Lightning

cover of The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III

cover of Ada, or Ardor

cover of Samedi the Deafness

cover of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

cover of No Longer Human

cover of The Great Wall of China

cover of The Time of Our Singing

cover of Adverbs

cover of Aeneid

cover of Charity Girl

cover of The River Wife

cover of The Book of Other People

cover of Kafka on the Shore

cover of Showbiz

cover of Damage

cover of Human Happiness

cover of Say You’re One of Them

cover of Three Trips

cover of The Dressmaker's Child

cover of Suttree

cover of The Worst Years of Your Life

cover of Top Dog Underdog

cover of Borneo and the Poet

cover of Iliad

cover of Downtown Owl

cover of Spiral

cover of The Memory of Running

cover of The White Mary

cover of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

cover of Security

cover of The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

cover of How We Are Hungry

cover of Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen

cover of The Sun Also Rises

cover of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

cover of Jenny and the Jaws of Life

cover of 1914

cover of Rust and Bone

cover of 9th and 13th

cover of Censoring an Iranian Love Story

cover of Estrella distante

cover of The Strength of the Sun

cover of Under The Light

cover of Pale Fire

cover of Bang Crunch

cover of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

cover of Welcome to the Monkey House

cover of Love Invents Us

cover of Thank You for Smoking: A Novel

cover of Talk Talk

cover of Deadeye Dick

cover of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

cover of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

cover of The View from Mount Improbably

cover of Super Sad True Love Story

cover of Filth

cover of This Book Will Save Your Life

cover of Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo

cover of The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning

cover of Links

cover of The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

cover of On the Beach

cover of Memorial

cover of The Sunset Limited

cover of A Million Little Pieces

cover of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

cover of Voices

cover of Sharp Teeth

cover of Bow's Boy

cover of The London Pigeon Wars

cover of King Arthur in the East Riding

cover of Incendiary

cover of Funnymen

cover of Child of God

cover of The Mayor's Tongue

cover of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

cover of Winter Sleep

cover of The Kiss

cover of Jailbird

cover of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

cover of In The Year Of The Long Division

cover of LaserWriter II

cover of The Vintage Book of Amnesia

cover of Rose, 1944

cover of Last Night in Twisted River

cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

cover of New Lives

cover of Valley of the Dolls

cover of The Weight Of Nothing

cover of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

cover of The Diviners

cover of Crooked Little Vein

cover of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About : A Novel

cover of The Abomination

cover of Cancer Ward

cover of American Psycho

cover of Tests of Time

cover of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

cover of How the Dead Dream

cover of The Spy Who Loved Me

cover of The Pesthouse

cover of Players

cover of The Dead Fish Museum

cover of The Summer of the Ubume

cover of The Essential Tales of Chekhov

cover of What Is All This

cover of Swimming Toward the Ocean

cover of The Monkey Wrench Gang

cover of Loop

cover of Alena: A Novel

cover of One More Year

cover of The Intuitionist

cover of Live and Let Die

cover of The Pale King

cover of The Pale King

cover of The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories

cover of Tree of Smoke

cover of The Cave of the Cyclops

cover of The Coronation of Haile Selassie

cover of Getting Mother's Body

cover of The New Confessions

cover of Varieties of Disturbance

cover of Stag Hunt

cover of The Double and The Gambler

cover of Johnny Mad Dog

cover of Eat Me

cover of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

cover of The Disappointment Artist

cover of Christmas at Stalingrad

cover of The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney

cover of Darkness at Noon

cover of Cloud, Castle, Lake

cover of Zermatt

cover of McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories

cover of Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's

cover of The Masque of the Red Death

cover of The Fall

cover of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

cover of Slow Learner

cover of Americans in Paris

cover of The Inner Circle

cover of Guernica and Other Plays

cover of Protobiography

cover of Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire

cover of Steppenwolf

cover of Young Austerlitz

cover of Remainder

cover of Bad Monkeys

cover of Good Faith

cover of Mother Night

cover of The Geographer's Library

cover of Fascination

cover of The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

cover of Stone's Fall

cover of The Mercy Room : A Novel

cover of Parrot and Olivier in America

cover of Astonishing Splashes of Colour

cover of The Body: A Novel

cover of Loves That Bind

cover of The Dog of the Marriage

cover of To the End of the Land

cover of Absent a Miracle

cover of Any Human Heart

cover of We Are The Friction

cover of Laughter in the Dark

cover of All the Pretty Horses

cover of King of the City

cover of The Almond Picker

cover of The Pieces from Berlin

cover of Norwegian Wood

cover of Short Short Stories

cover of The Testament of Gideon Mack

cover of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

cover of Galapagos

cover of Lose Weight Through Great Sex with Celebritie

cover of Disguise

cover of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

cover of Something for the Weekend

cover of Esther's Inheritance

cover of Cogs in the Great Machine

cover of Smothered in Hugs

cover of These Granite Islands

cover of Of Pageants and Picnics

cover of Indecision

cover of The Sellout

cover of Then We Came to the End

cover of Netherland

cover of Murder

cover of The Gift

cover of The Sky Below

cover of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

cover of Time Travel: A History

cover of The Assault on Jerusalem

cover of By the Lake

cover of The Last Days of Publishing

cover of Eeeee Eee Eeee

cover of The Eye

cover of Pictures at an Exhibition

cover of IM OK

cover of Faraway Places

cover of Quarrel & Quandary

cover of Ugly Man

cover of The Road

cover of Garden State

cover of All the Sad Young Literary Men

cover of Lady Chatterley's Trial

cover of Innocent House

cover of The Idiot

cover of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

cover of The Fall

cover of Twelve Fingers

cover of Send Me

cover of At Swim, Two Boys

cover of Beowulf

cover of The Ice Storm

cover of The Boat

cover of The Border of Truth: A Novel

cover of The Futurist

cover of A Town Like Alice

cover of The Way Through Doors

cover of The Melancholy of Anatomy

cover of Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty

cover of Bødy

cover of The Autograph Man

cover of Hunger

cover of Metamorphosis and Other Stories

cover of Vanessa and Virginia

cover of Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

cover of Abyssinian Chronicles

cover of Love-Lies-Bleeding

cover of A Mad Desire to Dance

cover of Caligula

cover of Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

cover of Gravity's Rainbow

cover of Set This House in Order

cover of In the Cut

cover of It's Superman!

cover of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

cover of The Good Life

cover of Marabou Stork Nightmares

cover of Madison House

cover of Dangerous Laughter

cover of Well

cover of Walkin' the Dog

cover of Mr. Toppit

cover of World's End

cover of Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

cover of The Bastille Falls

cover of This Is Not Chick Lit

cover of I Hotel

cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being

cover of Leather Maiden

cover of The Lemon Table

The Book Cover Archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design.

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Portfolio sites of
book cover designers

Mark Abrams
Kelly Blair
Milan Bozic
Christopher Brand
Barbara deWilde
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
David Drummond
David Gee
Jonathan Gray
Darren Haggar
High Design
Jamie Keenan
Chip Kidd™
Gregg Kulick
Chin-Yee Lai
Mark Melnick
Peter Mendelsund
David Pearson
Isaac Tobin
Megan Wilson
Ben Wiseman
Henry Sene Yee
Helen Yentus

Great sites on
book cover design

The Casual Optimist
The Book Design Review
Book Covers Anonymous
Faceout Books
Judge a Book…
Tal Designz
The Penguin Blog
Peter Mendelsund’s Thoughts
The Pelican Project
Joe Kral’s Penguin Collection
Caustic Cover Critic

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Designer

Illustrator

Leanne Shapton6
Chris Ware3
CSA Images3
Milan Bozic3
Brian Rea2
eBoy2
Jacob Magraw-Mickelson2
Sam Weber2

Photographers

Corbis13
Jason Fulford13
Getty Images12
Michael Northrup10
Geoff Spear5
Jacob Sutton5
Jon Shireman4
Christine Rodin3
thomas allen3
Henry Sene Yee2
Jason Ramirez2
Marc Tauss2
Marc Yankus2
Matthew Sandager2
Paul C. Pet2
Paul Sahre2

Genre

Fiction595
NonFiction445
memoir62
Poetry56
Science Fiction55
Art and Design40
Comics21
Mystery14
Humor8
Youth Fiction8
Reference5