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Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

A book is weighed against its confreres in the same genre and a designer begins conceptualising anywhere up to 15 different directions. This is how a bestselling cover ends up with hordes of copycats.

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Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.

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It looks like one of those book-to-film covers that everyone wants to avoid but, contrary to popular belief, this cover of Lolita isn’t a still from Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 movie; neither the ...

And once the book is published, many of those people would remember that they had a say in the cover choice, and maybe there’s a higher chance of purchase because of that. Everybody wins.

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