Today, I’m doing something a little weird: I’m judging books I haven’t read. I’m not going off their covers or their descriptions, either. I’m just looking at the titles of the books. Who knows, maybe I’ll find something interesting I want to read by doing this! Or, maybe someone reading this post will find something that they want to read. I’ll have links to all of the books that I mention down below, too, in case one of them does catch your eye. 

Let’s stop pretending that book covers don’t matter. For just a second, let’s all be honest with ourselves: we do judge books by their covers, to at least some degree. When you’re perusing and looking for a book without a recommendation, what gets you to pick up a book is the cover, the spine, and/or the title. Covers matter. They’re important and they absolutely sell books. Okay, now that we’ve all admitted that to ourselves (right?), let’s talk about what makes a cover good, at least in my personal opinion.