Maybe we shouldn’t, but we all judge books by their covers before we read them. The books and magazine presented in this post are the ones that make a great job at grabing potential readers attention from their covers already.

1. The New Yorker

A winter sport themed New Yorker cover, looks gorgeous!

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2. The Voice of Light

Awesome use of white space in this cover designed by Francesca Pavese.

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3. News of the world

A very subtle cover designed by Jason Booher, it uses tiny bits of famous logos of newspapers from around the world.

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4. Gulliver’s travel

An awesome alternate book cover that makes great use of white space. Via Etsy (not available at the moment unfortunatly).

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5. The Room

A cover design with some depth, designed by Christopher Brand.

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6. The Jungle Book

An alternative book cover for Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book designed by Tatiana Boyko.

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7. Moonshine: Dreamworks artists… after dark!

A collection of art by the studio’s illustrators when not working on studio projects.

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8. Dubliners

A gorgeous and well-illustrated cover for James Joyce’s book Dubliners.

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9. Edgar Allan Poe collected stories

A beautiful cover illustrated by Emma Löfström.

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10. Pragmatism: a reader

A very pragmatic book cover.

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Mirko Humbert

Mirko Humbert is the editor-in-chief and main author of Designer Daily and Typography Daily. He is also a graphic designer and the founder of WP Expert.