Have you ever been seduced to buy or borrow a book, simply because the cover was so well designed? That’s why it’s worth getting cover design right. In this post, we’ve collected 53 excellent book covers in many different styles. These covers will inspire not only any book cover design you do, but your designs in other areas as well.

1. The Mad Ones

2. Bases Loaded

3. Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him

4. Busted

5. Bow’s Boy

6. Wonderful World: A Novel

7. A Slow Death

8. We Must Love One Another Or Die

9. Red Harvest

10. The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction

11. Censoring an Iranian Love Story

12. The Sheriff of Yrnameer

13. Disguise

14. Scenes of Academic Life

15. Something for the Weekend

16. Under the Clock

17. The Economics of Innocent Fraud

18. The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning

19. Otherwise Pandemonium

20. Judging Obscenity

21. Kid Rex

22. World as Laboratory

23. Treason by the Book

24. The Craftsman

25. The Manly Modern

26. Say You’re One of Them

27. The Memory of Running

28. The Girls Who Went Away

29. The Brief History of the Dead

30. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

31. The Good Rat

32. Backstory

33. I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

34. The Bill from My Father

35. City of Tiny Lights

36. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

37. The Mayor’s Tongue

38. Leather Maiden

39. The Dog of Marriage

40. The Tattoo Artist

41. Sun in a Bottle

42. Chances Are

43. Chicago

44. Final Exits

45. The Edifice Complex

46. The Female Thing

47. The Best American Crime Writing 2005

48. Then We Came to the End

49. Kockroach

50. Stiff

51. Animal Farm

<52. The Devil and Sonny Liston

<53. Devil in the Details