With the rise of Instagram and BookTok, the importance of aesthetics in literature is on the rise, and book covers have become a bigger focus than ever. The phrase “never judge a book by its ...

Bookstagrammers turn books into aesthetic objects in their own right ... literally judging books by their covers, and it has been used over 6m times at the time of writing.

Munro says it soon became clear what made a good book cover. “I picked a jury in which we all have different approaches and aesthetics,” he says. “But we agreed that a good cover is ...

Fully Booked asked its artist friends — from graphic artists to watercolorists to photographers — what the best book covers are for them so that readers may be able to learn from them how to judge a ...

For serious literature to pander to us with cosmetic allurements would be somehow tacky, uncool. The more important a book is, the less likely there is to be anything at all on its cover (look at ...

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“If it doesn’t move in the first 20-30 pages, I just leave it,” she says adding that she never judges books by their covers. "I always wrap them so the covers are irrelevant to me.

I became a connoisseur of those covers, and of the often ... sometimes seem to convey less about the book itself than about the power of the series’ aesthetic. “They’re sensibility-forward ...