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.
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