Oct 11, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Every once in a while, a cover comes along that captures the true spirit of corporate despair so perfectly you almost have to respect it. The Auditors isn’t just a bad cover — it’s a visual audit of everything wrong with self-published...
Oct 11, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There are bad covers that offend the eye, and then there are bad covers that offend geometry, anatomy, and logic. The Best Cadet manages to do all three while still looking like a brochure you’d get at an underfunded leadership seminar....
Oct 11, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Some covers try to tell a story. American Ground tries to tell a data set. Here it is — a neon-green, heatmap-from-hell rendition of what looks like either downtown Manhattan or the sonar scan of a coral reef. For a book with the subtitle...
Oct 10, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Some book covers whisper, some shout — and then there’s The Guardian, which calmly jogs up beside you and says, “Hey, I’m not that bad,” before revealing it’s wearing five different fonts and a mildly confused expression. At first glance,...
Oct 10, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s minimalism, and then there’s this. Swimming Studies presents itself as an award-winning literary memoir, but visually it’s less “artful restraint” and more “someone fell asleep in Adobe Illustrator.” Over half the cover is a wide,...
