40+ Stunning Black and White Book Cover Designs

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40+ Stunning Black and White Book Cover Designs

After the fun I had putting together a similar post on minimalistic book covers, I thought I would revisit book covers, this time focusing on black and white book cover designs.

The showcase consists of over forty covers made up from books from all different genres; graphic design, art and culture, novels and and other non-fiction books. B&W book cover design surprisingly stands out tremendously well, especially with so many (or most!) books being full colour these days.

What is your favourite book cover here? Let us know!

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Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

author: Lou Reed

You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

author: Jaron Lanier

Labyrinths

author: JL Borges

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

author: Thomas De Quincey

Portraits

author: A. J. Liebling

Beromda Bocker

author: Bokforlaget DN

Confessions of a Mask

author: H. Mishima

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

author: Jim Holt

Stone

author: Adam Roberts

Century Rain

author: Alastair Reynolds

Eternal Light

author: Paul McAuley

Rendezvous With Rama

author: Arthur C. Clarke

Eon

author: Greg Bear

Ringworld

author: Larry Niven

Last And First Men

author: Olaf Stapledon

Ilium

author: Dan Simmons

The Trial

author: Franz Kafka

Violence

author: Slavoj Zizek

Players

author: Don DeLillo

Type Addicted

author: Victionary

The Pesthouse

author: Jim Crace

Soviet Kid

author: Jason Black

Everything You Know

author: Zoe Heller

Competition

author: James Case

High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler

author: Brian O’Dea

The Man Suit

author: Zachary Schomburg

The Life and Death of Democracy

author: John Keane

Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … and the World

author: Courtney Humphries

The Boat

author: Nam Le

Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

author: Randall Kennedy

The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

author: Albert Camus

Exile on Main St: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones

author: Robert Greenfield

In the Woods

author: Tana French

The Best of Newspaper Design

author: Society for News Design

Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel

author: Ake Edwardson

The Brief History of the Dead

author: Kevin Brockmeier

Simply Droog

author: Droog Design

The Druid King

author: Norman Spinrad

Oh the Glory of It All

author: Sean Wilsey

Leather Maiden

author: Joe Lansdale

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  • Ross

    If anyone loves a bit of Sci-Fi Ilium by Dan Simmons on this list is a MUST!

    Amazing artwork too.

  • Black & White « Trina D. Lambert

    [...] Black and White Book Covers – 40+ stunning b&w book cover designs. [...]

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