Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

It has been said that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But there’s an online community that’s calling utter BS on that. r/TerribleCovers has 79,000 members who all gather on a daily basis, to ...

Earlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m. The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour commanded ...

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...

A woman compared the US covers of books to the ones you'd find on shelves in the UK, and there was a clear winner between ...

Some of our cherished, time-honored proverbs are a little … well … more complicated than they seem. “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” Well, yes you can ...

I first picked up the book not only because of its cover, but also because I recognized the book was trending on # BookTok.