Joseph Sullivan has made a list of his favorite book covers of 2008. Some of these are really quite fantastic. My favorite (from his favorites) is All the Sad Young Literary Men:

Via Kottke.

The design firm Crush has taken something very classic and completely redesigned it:

When we got the call to design the bible — we obviously asked — the bible of what? … fashion? shoes? bible of best bars in Britain? But no, Hodder & Stoughton really wanted us to design a cover for the Holy Bible.

I quite like this design, particularly the big red “sticker” that says “The Bible.” I wonder if this is available outside of the UK?

Via Monoscope.

Here are some more nice book covers designed by Chip Kidd. These three are for pulp fiction novels.

• Recent book cover designs by Chip Kidd

Via Kotke.