Somewhat furry adjacent, but I think the covers the Noss books are gorgeously illustrated. The second book in particular, which I'm hoping to read this year, is a favourite of mine:

I've met the artist and she's lovely!

I've always loved the cover of The Resurrectionist

I haven't bought them because fuck JK rowling, but I think the covers on the lithuanian edition of harry potter books are really pretty :3

I bought this one entirely because of its cover. Turned out to be a solid read. I've now read three of his and look forward to snagging another.

The entire Dune series covers are absolutely fantastic

Quite a shame they recently added a big fat "Now a major motion picture!" on the newest edition. Not even a sticker, directly in the print.

My favorite series "The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica" is both written and illustrated by James Owen, who is super talented at both. The whole series has amazing art, especially for the covers

Generally, the books I read have pretty uninteresting covers (well, at least to me). Recently, it's been mostly military history, political science, or economics, and those tend to have either nothing but a title on a single-color background or maybe some public-domain photograph slapped on the front for the military history stuff.

I have an art book or two, but that seems kind of like cheating. In terms of regular books...hmm.

I'd guess that the best ones are probably from fantasy books, and I haven't read much fantasy for quite a while.

tries to think though all of the fantasy books for one I liked

Well, going way back, the original Dragon of the Lost Sea cover. The hardback edition had a kinda Chinese ink painting-style image that spanned both the front and back. There was a later reprint that had cover art that I really disliked.

searches

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/146249e3-cede-4929-8961-45e5c6f9bf7d.jpeg

Not saying that I disliked the book, just that I liked the cover.