100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024

2024 was … a year!

And if you’re still reeling from it, the holidays are a perfect time to get punch-drunk distracted on a bounty of brilliant book covers.

For as much insanity as the year held (and it was … a lot!), it was offset by a constant stream of cathartic tomes and jackets. To that end, in 2023 our annual December list featured 50 titles—and it has now doubled to 100. 

Some of my personal favorites: Thomas Colligans’ beautiful cover for Beautyland, which has been stuck in my head for the better part of a year. Janet Hansen’s work on Ask Me Again, is equal parts electrifying and haunting. Pablo Delcan’s genius VanderMeer covers the best encapsulations of the Southern Reach series since his Spanish editions. Arsh Raziuddin’s jacket for Knife. Alex Merto and Seymour Chwast’s Tom Wolfe reissues. Pete Adlington’s utterly perfect Not Waving But Drowning. Grace Han’s take on God of the Woods, which disproves the theory that great covers are only the stuff of niche imprints and genres and not mainstream bestsellers. And so many others, which you’ll see below.

Here’s to all the striking work in 2024, and all that we have to look forward to in 2025. There has truly never been a better time to get lost in a book—or a book cover.

Cover design by Thomas Colligan
Cover design by David Pearson
Cover design by Arsh Raziuddin

Cover designs by Pablo Delcan

Cover design by Suzanne Dean; illustration by Neue Gestaltung
Cover design by Cassie Vu
Cover design by Vi-An Nguyen; art by Sarah Bagshaw
Cover design by Kishan Rajani
Cover design by Henry Petrides
Cover design by Zoe Norvell
Cover design by Oliver Munday
Cover design by Alex Merto
Cover design by Clay Smith
Cover design by Oliver Munday

Art direction by Alex Merto; illustrations by Seymour Chwast

Cover design by Luke Bird
Cover design by Chris Bentham
Cover design by Kimberly Glyder
Cover design by Janet Hansen
Cover design by Jonathan Pelham
Cover design by Robbie Porter
Cover design by Pablo Delcan

Cover designs by Chip Kidd

Cover design by Charlotte Stroomer; photography by Kelsey McClellan
Cover design by Grace Han
Cover design by Luke Bird
Cover design by Oliver Munday
Cover design by June Park and Rodrigo Corral
Cover design by Arsh Raziuddin
Cover design by Isabel Urbina Peña
Cover design by Julianna Lee
Cover design by Jack Smyth
Cover design by Zoe Norvell; art by Gérard Schlosser
Design by Jaya Miceli; art by Jane Fisher
Cover design by Jonathan Pelham
Cover Design by Na Kim

Cover design by Nico Taylor; paintings by Jesse Mockrin

Cover design by Farjana Yasmin
Cover design by Tom Etherington; illustration by Frances Waite
Design by Math Monahan
Cover design by Grace Han
Cover design by Alex Merto
Cover design by Joanne O’Neill
Cover design by Alex Merto
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Cover design by Zoe Norvell
Cover design by Emily Mahon
Cover design by Janet Hansen
Cover design by Jenny Volvovski
Cover design by Jack Smyth
Cover design by Luísa Dias
Cover design by Tom Etherington
Cover design by Alicia Tatone
Cover design by Nicole Caputo
Cover design by Andrea Settimo
Cover design by Nico Taylor
Cover design by Anna Morrison
Cover design by Jack Smyth
Cover design by Christopher Lin; painting by Alberto Ortega
Cover design by Tom Etherington
Cover design by Jon Gray
Cover design by Kaitlin Kall

Cover designs by Matt Broughton

Cover design by Matt Dorfman
Cover design by Vi-An Nguyen
Cover design/AD: Alison Forner; type/lettering: Andrew Footit
Cover design by Pete Adlington
Cover design by David Pearson
Cover design by Joan Wong
Cover design by Tyler Comrie
Cover design by Sunra Thompson; illustration by Kristian Hammerstad
Cover design by Eli Mock
Cover design by Suzanne Dean; illustration by Takaya Katsuragawa
Cover design by Donna Cheng
Cover design by Jack Smyth
Cover design by Jonathan Pelham
Cover design by Perry De La Vega
Cover design by Jamie Keenan
Cover design by Gregg Kulick
Cover design by Luke Bird; photo by Graciela Iturbide
Cover design by Sarah Schulte
Cover design by Na Kim

Cover designs by Luke Bird

Cover design by Tyler Comrie

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