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....
Dec 6, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There are design crimes. There are aesthetic misdemeanors. And then there’s this — a celestial catastrophe so earnestly chaotic it feels like a PowerPoint slide got baptized and raptured mid-sermon. Let’s start with the obvious. The title,...
Dec 6, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If you’ve ever wanted to squint your way through a cloud of bird fluff while desperately searching for meaning, congratulations — Swish has arrived to deliver your visual migraine. This cover is what happens when an art school dropout...
Dec 6, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Nothing says “bold personal transformation” quite like… a stock photo of trees. Behold, Dare to Evolve, a cover that dares absolutely nothing and evolves even less. If graphic design were a personality test, this would be the blank space...
