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!

Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

Labyrinths

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Portraits

Beromda Bocker

Confessions of a Mask

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

Stone

Century Rain

Eternal Light

Rendezvous With Rama

Eon

Ringworld

Last And First Men

Ilium

The Trial

Violence

Players

Type Addicted

The Pesthouse

Soviet Kid

Everything You Know

Competition

High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler

The Man Suit

The Life and Death of Democracy

Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … and the World

The Boat

Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

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

In the Woods

The Best of Newspaper Design

Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel

The Brief History of the Dead

Simply Droog

The Druid King

Oh the Glory of It All

Leather Maiden