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 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,...
