Every cover today shows an improvement! It may be big, it may be small, but it’s better, and that’s something!
(I’m sure that my heightened expectations will be dashed in the next couple of days…)
Because we can’t really call them “winners,” can we?
I’ve made so many of your pore over these covers repeatedly, so I’m going to trim the list down to the five worst covers featured here in 2025:
#5:
(originally posted December 5, 2025)
#4:
(originally posted July 28, 2025)
#3:
Club AutoRape: 01/01/2000 – 01/10/2000
(originally posted July 8, 2025)
#2:
Fire From The Sky-Battle Of Harvest Moon & True Story Of The Space Shuttles
(originally posted March 25, 2025)
#1:
5 Adventure Stories for Kids. Easy To Read Bedtime Stories (Kids Bedtime Stories)
(originally posted December 1, 2025)
With the new voting scheme, you won’t have to be subjected to as many repeated horrors when we do this again next year. (That’s right… We’re doing this again next year.)
That’s right, I’ll hit you with a Christmas-related cover any month of the year.
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There are a half-dozen covers today that are clear, order-of-magnitude improvements… and one that’s a full step backward.
Jane Austen apparently had a Faerie Goth phase.
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It looks like Mars is blue-darting. (h/t PJ)
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Not a lot to love here today.