2022 Best Book Covers Shortlist

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2022 Book Award Best Cover Finalists, shown in random order!

These covers were chosen during the judging of our Book Award Finalists for interesting and intriguing covers that inspire a reader to want to open the book and see more about the story. Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their finalist submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission. And you can also congratulate the finalists in our forum.

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Woman with coat and hat walking while looking behind her shoulder, with the Vatican skyline as a background
Cristina Loggia for "LUCIFER'S GAME"

Cristina started her career as a newspaper reporter for L’Eco di Biella and La Provincia di Biella, in Piedmont, Italy. After a spell running the press office of an MP, she moved to London, where she worked for several years as a public affairs and media relations professional, advising major

Book cover image of woman with a bloodred birthmark snaking around her face and body.
JP McLean for "Blood Mark"

JP McLean is a bestselling author of urban fantasy and supernatural thrillers. She is a Global Book Award winner, a CIBA finalist, and has received honours from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, the NIEA Awards, and the Whistler independent Book Awards. JP is a graduate of

Teal background with an ivory puffed dandelion spreading it's seeds. The title, i am jess, is in lowercase black lettering at the top of the cover.
Jessica Fahl for "I Am Jess, a memoir"

Jessica lives in a small suburb of Minneapolis with her husband and their four children. In addition to her full-time day job and occasionally moonlighting as a birth doula, she has discovered an interest in writing and hopes to find more time to work on the projects endlessly mulling around in her

waiting for the night song
Julie Carrick Dalton for "Waiting for the Night Song"

Julie Carrick Dalton’s debut novel WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG was named to Most Anticipated 2021 book by CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, Buzzfeed, and others, and was an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books of the Month. As a journalist, Julie has published more than a thousand articles in

Watercolor painting of Paris, with tones of blue that connote emotion of isolation.
Julie Scolnik for "PARIS BLUE, a memoir of first love"

I am a concert flutist and the founding artistic director of Mistral Music, a chamber music series which is known for its virtuosic artists, imaginative programming, and the personal rapport we establish with our audiences. (www.MistralMusic.org) In earlier years, I was a busy freelancer, performing

Have You Ever Wondered What You Will Be? Cover
Junia Wonders for "Have You Ever Wondered What You Will Be?"

Junia Wonders is the author of the seasonal bestseller The Roll-Away Pumpkin, which has been translated into six languages. Five of her picture books, namely, The Roll-Away Pumpkin, Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe, The Night the Monsters Came, Have You Ever Wondered What You Will Be?, and I

A mysterious woman's face superimposed on a map of Afghanistan and an ancient document penned in Kharosthi script.
Tom Joyce for "The Missing Peace"

Tom Joyce will neither confirm nor deny having any association with persons, living or dead, that have worked for intelligence gathering agencies, in the United States or abroad, in any capacity. He can, however, confirm that he has spent time in Northern Afghanistan and most of the other places

A mysterious woman's face superimposed on a map of Afghanistan and an ancient document penned in Kharosthi script.
Tom Joyce for "The Missing Peace"

Tom Joyce will neither confirm nor deny having any association with persons, living or dead, that have worked for intelligence gathering agencies, in the United States or abroad, in any capacity. He can, however, confirm that he has spent time in Northern Afghanistan and most of the other places

The cover for These Walls Between Us: Smears of white plaster on a black background, evoking the creation of walls.
Wendy Sanford for "These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class"

I grew up in an affluent white suburban family in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. During the socially turbulent time of the 1970s, I became a feminist, a lesbian, and a Quaker. A founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, I co authored and edited many versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Black jacket with purple and white dynamic graphic of Hexad (6 terms)
Carol Sanford for "No More Feedback: Cultive Consciousness at Work"

Senior Fellow of Social Innovation, Babson College; CEO, The Regenerative Paradigm Institute, Educator and Social Change designer for people in change agents roles, organizational leaders who aspire to making a difference, business and organizational teams pursuing meaningful work and business

Cover shows a lone campervan with the lights on inside against a dark night and menacing night sky.
Helen Matthews for "The Girl in the Van"

Helen Matthews writes page-turning psychological suspense novels and is fascinated by the darker side of human nature and how a life can change in an instant. Her novel The Girl in the Van, published by Darkstroke Books, won the suspense and thriller genre in the 2022 Pageturner Awards. Other novels

A woman walking along an icy road in a winter landscape
Louise Mangos for "The Beaten Track"

Louise writes novels, short stories and flash fiction, which have won prizes, placed on shortlists, and have been read out on BBC radio. Her short fiction has appeared in more than twenty print anthologies and magazines. Some of these are also online, links to which can be found on her website. She

To The Bitter End
Nicky Shearsby for "To The Bitter End"

Born in England, breaking into serious novel writing wasn’t something I began in earnest until taking early retirement after selling my business. Two decades of writing non-fiction, graphic design, magazine publication and organic skincare manufacturing, finally led me to my dream job. Writing