The fifth semifinal for 2026:
Vote your top (which is to say, bottom) three of these notably bad covers from May!
Because good (bad) work should be recognized.
This would be bad enough if it had been released in 1998. But it came out this year.
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Your Typical Outlaw and Other Stories of the Old West
No commentary would be adequate.
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Glacial Indifference Cruise (Cruising Through Midlife: Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries Book 5)
I don’t care if she is a New York Times bestseller. It’s a bad cover.
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Jesus Protects: 20-Week Devotional to a Bold Spirit based on David’s Life
Yes, there’s a clever visual idea in here. No, it’s not enough to compensate for the problems.
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Her Secret Odyssey: Josee’s Magical Adventure
So it took seven years to get home on the school bus?
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The God Frequency The Saturn Deception
Congrats, you’ve found new ways to screw up an ebook cover.
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This is apparently a story written by a grandfather, who let his granddaughters illustrate it, which would be fine except they decided to SELL IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
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