50 Clever Minimalist Book Covers

You can’t judge a book by its cover but you can commend it for being absolutely beautiful. Any book cover that makes you do a double-take deserves some praise for its fantastic design. Therefore, this is a collection of 50 minimalistic book covers that inspire on both the inside and especially the outside.

1. Listening to Trees by A. K. Hellum

 

2. Obsession by Lennard J. Davis

 

3. Storycraft by Jack Hart

 

4. The Nazi Symbiosis by Sheila Faith Weiss

 

5. The Arc of War by Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson

 

6. Citrus by Pierre Laszlo

 

7. The Second Man by Edward Grierson

 

8. Piracy by Adrian Johns

 

9. Lost Decades by Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffry A. Frieden

 

10. Dangerous Frames by Nicholas J. G. Winter

 

11. 1984 by George Orwell

 

12. Women by Charles Bukowski

 

13. Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson

 

14. Wet Apples, White Blood by Naomi Guttman

 

15. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

 

16. Bodies by Susie Orbach

 

17. The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich

 

18. The Second Plane by Martin Amis

 

19. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader

 

20. Hack by Dmitry Samarov

 

21. Contested Reproduction by John H. Evans

 

22. An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

23. An Ethics of Interrogation by Michael Skerker

 

24. Navigators of the Contemporary by David A. Westbrook

25. Rebound by Stephen Rose

 

26. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

 

27. The Complete Stories by David Malouf

 

28. Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz

 

29. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin

 

30. From Square One by Dean Olsher

 

31. Brothers & Beasts by Kate Bernheimer

 

32. Columbine by Dave Cullen

 

33. Imprint by Daniel Eatock

 

34. Young Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

 

35. The Spirit of Saint Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

 

36. Heat by Bill Buford

 

37. Accident by Ross Hamilton

 

38. Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay

 

39. The Verificationist by Donald Antrim

 

40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

41. Semantic Antics by Sol Steinmetz

 

42. The Cigarette Century by Allen M. Brandt

 

43. Super Capitalism by Robert B. Reich

 

44. Suiza Constructiva by Serge and Patricia Molins

 

45. The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

 

46. Garden State by Rick Moody

 

47. All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

 

48. One Red Paperclip by Kyle MacDonald

 

49. Special Orders by Edward Hirsch

 

50. 9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe

 

From the well planned use of open space to clever typographical design, minimalistic covers make books mysterious, beautiful, and irresistibly inviting.