A book’s cover has a big job – it has to sell readers in seconds, competing with its bookstore neighbors for attention in a rapidly multiplying field. Sometimes a memorable cover becomes more famous than the book itself. In today’s inspiration post, we bring you a collection of 45 Creative & Clever Minimalist Book Cover Designs.

Isaac Tobin

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Tokyo

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Guess Who? The Many Faces of Noma Bar

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LE GUN 1,2,3

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Harry’s Tale

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Wet Apples, White Blood – Book Covers

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Piracy – Book Covers

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Lost Decades

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Closing Time

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Security

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The Gettysburg Address

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Busted

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Fata Morgana

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The Mayor’s Tongue

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Minimalist book covers

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Listening To Trees

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The Unbinding

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Against Happiness

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Impossible Motherhood

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In Cold Blood

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Juliet, Naked

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1959: The Year Everything Changed

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Landing

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Notes from the Dog

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the second man

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Writings from the Zen Masters

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Heat

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The Second Plane

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Exile and the Kingdom

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