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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I would share a few book covers that use hearts as part of their design…

all-about-love
All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi; design by Jamie Keenan (W. W. Norton / July 2011)

Alternatives to Sex
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley; design by David Ter-Avanesyan (Simon & Schuster / March 2006)

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American Supernatural Tales edited by S. T. Joshi ; design by Paul Buckley (Penguin / October 2013)

Amy-and-Matthew
Amy and Matthew by Cammie McGovern; design by Sharon King-Chai (Macmillan Children’s Books / March 2014)

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The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge; design by Heads of State (Penguin / October 2011)

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Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Jill Wolfson; design by Jack Noel (Walker Books / November 2011 )

coming-clean
Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller; design by Lynn Buckley (New Harvest / July 2013)

committed

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert; design by Helen Crawford-White; illustration by Illustration Yulia Brodskaya (Bloomsbury / January 2011)

don't-you-forget-about-me
Don’t You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn; design by Catherine Casalino (Villard Books / July 2008)

eat-my-heart-out
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger; design by Rose Stallard (Serpents Tail / January 2014)

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The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf / April 2014)

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Fraught Intimacies by Nathan Rambukkana; design by David Drummond (UBC Press / May 2015)

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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank; cover art by Lina Stigsson (Penguin / July 2011)

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Gloss by Marilyn Kaye; design by Rachel Vale (Macmillan Children’s Books / June 2013 )

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Happy are the Happy by Yesmina Reza; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker / July 2014)

The recently released US edition of Happy are the Happy published by Other Press, and designed by Kathleen DiGrado, also features a heart on the cover (if you know who the designer is, please let me know):

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Heart of the City by Ariel Sabar; design by Henry Sene Yee (Da Capo / January 2011)

heart-of-darkness
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; design by Paul Buckley; art by Mike Mignola (Penguin / August 2012)

volkswagen
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / September 2011)

how-to-love
How to Love by Katie Cotugno; design by Alison Klapthor; cover art by Alison Carmichael (Balzer + Bray / October 2013)

hundred-hearts
The Hundred Hearts by William Kowalski; design by Michel Vrana (Thomas Allen / May 2013)

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In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / September 2014)

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In Case We Die by Danny Bland; design by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics / September 2013)

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Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Mac McClelland; design by Keith Hayes (Flatiron Books / February 2014)

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Learning to Love Form 1040 by Lawrence Zelenak; design by Isaac Tobin (University of Chicago Press / April 2013 )

lolita-bierut
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; design by Michael Bierut (Lolita Book Cover Project / 2013)

love-poems
Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht; translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn; design by Jennifer Heuer (W. W. Norton / December 2014)

lovers-dictionary
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan; design by Jennifer Carrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2011)

loves-winning-plays
Love’s Winning Plays by Inman Majors; design by Eric White (W. W. Norton / July 2013)

man-who-touched-his-own-heart
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Rob Dunn; design by Ploy Siripant (Little, Brown & Co. / February 2015)

marriage-plot
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides; design by Jo Walker (Fourth Estate / April 2012)

zusak
The Messenger by Markus Zusak; design by Sandy Cull / gogoGingko (Pan Macmillan / November 2013)

On-the-Noodle-Road
On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu; design by Lynn Buckley (Riverhead / July 2013)

ps-i-love-you
P. S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern; design by Heike Schüssler (HarperCollins / January 2014)

teeth
Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz; design by Angela Goddard (Simon & Schuster / January 2013)

things-we-know
Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby; design by Erin Fitzsimmons (HarperCollins / May 2015)

Doern art
The Wet Engine by Brian Doyle; design by David Drummond (Oregon State University / May 2012)

with-or-without-you
With or Without You by Domencia Ruta; design by Greg Mollica; lettering by Rebecca Siegel  (Spiegel & Grau / February 2013)

4 Comments

    • Dan

      Thanks Alexander. Appreciate it. :-)

  1. Missing my cover on here for “Alternative to Sex” by Stephen McCauley :)

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