Kenzaburo Oé. Anagrama.





The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Haruki Murakami. Círculo de Lectores.

I love the NYRB Classics cover designs.



Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird, New York Review Books Classics.

It's the cover that makes me want the book as much as or more than the content. And it's not just the cover art, but also the livery of the whole series.

Fascinating book cover on Moderan, it reminded me of Nick Land's Fanged Noumena:


Though not similar, both have this disturbing somewhat surrealist look.

It's the cover that makes me want the book as much as or more than the content. — Jamal

Surely. Though outside beauty may not stand up to inner beauty, it is still very important. At the end of the day, when we walk into bookstores, we do judge books by their covers, at least a bit.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Haruki Murakami — javi2541997

I like the play on colours. Half and half, and the title square also splits half and half, but with the top half matching more the bottom in colour and the bottom matching the top. I like when they do that.

Surely. Though outside beauty may not stand up to inner beauty, it is still very important. At the end of the day, when we walk into bookstores, we do judge books by their covers, at least a bit. — Lionino

Indubitably. But what happens is that once I've found the inner beauty, the outer beauty of the book as physical object pales into insignificance; it loses its novelty and pristine attractiveness. (This is partly because I can't read a paperback without creasing the covers, crushing the corners, etc.)

If we talk about beautiful book covers, I personally think that the editors of Murakami's novels have always done a very nice job. Right, @praxis ?

I like some of them, others not so much, like this one…



Even an AI can produce a more interesting cover image.