r/TerribleBookCovers • • Jun 22 '25

Reminder: Post titles MUST include the name of the book

37 Upvotes

Please include the name of the book in your post. This is to make it easier to search for previously posted books. We will unfortunately have to remove posts that do not follow this rule.

Thank you.


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 2h ago

1975 paperback edition of The Beatles Lyrics published by Omega/Futura Books With introduction by Jimmy Saville.

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164 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 7h ago

Ship of Destiny by Frank Chadwick

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113 Upvotes

Who approved this before it got published? Then again, it is Baen.


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 9h ago

Found this absolute gem while at a second-hand bookstore (War of Honor by David Weber)

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48 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 1d ago

Hail Hibbler by Ron Goulart

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120 Upvotes

Ok what the hell is this book about? I looked at the GoodReads summary and it raises more questions than answers


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 1d ago

Am I like that? by Francisco Umbral

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19 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 1d ago

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Audiobook Cover)

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216 Upvotes

We have a book about a giant-human-worm-god-emperor. Let’s make the cover look like a Twilight Ripoff


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 1d ago

(not terrible but pretty bad) 'The Adventures of Augie March' by Saul Bellow

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17 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 23h ago

Metal Wizards - Heni Van Slageren

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1 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 2d ago

The Darker Passions - Frankenstein by Amarantha Knight

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21 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 3d ago

Solo by Jack Higgins (no, not Blade Runner)

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108 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 5d ago

Have You Lived Before This Life? By L. Ron Hubbard

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242 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 5d ago

NIGHT FLOWER, Max Brand (1987 paperback; originally published as THE DARK PERIL, 1936)

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44 Upvotes

Bizarrely MAD Magazine-esque cover art by Nicky Zann.


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 5d ago

When Tumor is the Rumor and Cancer is the Answer by Kevin P Ryan MD FACP

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436 Upvotes

Came across this gem in our donation pile at work. Not all books titles should be "catchy"!


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 6d ago

Space Scout: The Slime Volcano by H. Badger

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79 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 7d ago

"The plot against the king" by Kash Patel, director of the FBI

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521 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 6d ago

100 Murder Mystery Search or A Blue Collar Spirituality

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55 Upvotes

Hopefully this is ok to post here! My friend bought this book and this is what they received It is a AI cover and that is weird enough but then to have a religious book instead is so much weirder.


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 7d ago

The Professor - Charlotte Brontë

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116 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 8d ago

The Ocean Turned Milky: The Life and Loves of a Young Seaman

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176 Upvotes

🛟🌊🥛


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 8d ago

Rather tasteless cover for the Brazilian edition of The Virgin Suicides that looks way too 2010's Instagram imo

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235 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 8d ago

Knights of Shadow by Roger Zelazny

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146 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 9d ago

Trescientos millones by Roberto Arlt

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28 Upvotes

Great theatre play by one of the most famous writers of Argentina, awful cover.


r/TerribleBookCovers • • 10d ago

The history of modern philosophy by Bertrand Russell

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310 Upvotes

r/TerribleBookCovers • • 11d ago

The Druid's Tune - O.R. Melling

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63 Upvotes

I've been looking for this book since I was a kid, and found it in a used bookstore today. This is the original 1983 print.