Welcome to the Most Beautiful Books 2024 competition!

The Finnish Book Art Committee will select the 28 most beautiful books published in 2024. The books will be awarded with the Book Arts Beautiful Book Award and one of them will be awarded with the Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award.

Publishers, printers, publishers and designers can submit books of their choice published during 2024 for evaluation to the Finnish Book Art Committee by 7 January 2025 at the latest. In addition to the required information, a picture of the book’s front cover is required.

To be eligible for the competition, at least one of the authors must be a Finnish citizen or a permanent resident of Finland:

Publisher
Graphic designer
Illustrator or photographer
Publisher or binder

The competition is entered by category:

Beautiful Books
Fiction and textbooks
Art books
Children’s and young people’s books
Comic books
Student works, small prints and experimental publications (no ISBN)
Covers