Dec 8, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere deep in the valley of confused metaphors and haunted produce lies Sour Apples, a book cover that tries to be meaningful and ends up looking like a PSA against fruit consumption. Billed as “A Novel for Those Who Hate to Read”,...
Dec 8, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Some covers scream their genre. Some whisper it. Death of a Cigarette mostly sighs into the void, drops its metaphor in the sand, and quietly evaporates into grayscale irrelevance. If book covers were weather, this one would be a drizzle...
Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Ah, the holiday season: a time for cocoa, carols, and design decisions that should’ve been left in the return bin with the broken string lights. Tales for Advent and Christmas by J. Traveler Pelton aims to bring warmth and tradition to...
Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere deep in a snow-covered mountain range, two skiers are locked in a high-speed race—not down the slopes, but straight into the uncanny valley of bad book design. Mara J. Ova’s The Crash Course promises thrills, romance, and maybe a...
Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If Edinburgh ever needed a tourism campaign to actively dissuade visitors, this cover just volunteered as tribute. T. R. Dray’s Wasted is a gritty thriller about trash and corruption, but the real crime here is against graphic design....
