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Book Covers of Note March 2015

Here is March’s selection of new and noteworthy covers. It’s a little bit of the Merto and Mendelsund show I’ll admit, but I assure you there really are some brilliant covers by other designers this month too!

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The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah; design by Leo Nickolls (Doubleday / March 2015)

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The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson; design by Kimberly Glyder (Harper / March 2013  killed)

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Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert; design by Patti Ratchford; illustration by Eric Nyquist (Bloomsbury / February 2015)

I also loved Eric’s ‘H is for Hawk’ illustration in the February 22nd edition of The New York Times Book Review.

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The Four Books by Yan Lianke; design by Matt Broughton (Chatto & Windus / March 2015)

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Get in Trouble by Kelly Link; design by Alex Merto (Random House / February 2015)

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The Highway of Despair by Robyn Marasco; design by Jennifer Heuer (Columbia University Press / March 2015)

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Holy Cow by David Duchovny; design by Rodrigo Corral; illustration and lettering by Natalya Balnova (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2015)

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I Am Sorry to Think I Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell; design by Peter Mendelsund; hand lettering by Janet Hansen; photography by George Baier IV (Knopf / March 2015)

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The Knife by Ross Ritchell; design by Alex Merto (Blue Rider Press / February 2015)

(Camouflage book covers are the New Thing!)

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The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / March 2015)

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A Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson; design by Marian Bantjes (Graywolf / February 2015)

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The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / March 2015)

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Making Nice by Matt Sumell; design by Gray318 (Henry Holt & Co. / February 2015)

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One Day in the Life of the English Language by Frank L. Cioffi; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / March 2015)

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The Poser by Jacob Rubin; design by Will Staehle (Viking / March 2015)

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Satin Island by Tom McCarthy; design by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf / February 2015)

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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson; design by Matt Dorfman (Riverhead / March 2015)

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The Swan Book by Alexis Wright; design by Ceara Elliot (Corsair / March 2015)

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The Unloved by Deborah Levy; design by Katya Mezhibovskaya; photograph by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison (Bloomsbury / March 2015)

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The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma; design by Connie Gabbert (Algonquin Books / March 2015)

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We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach; Lucy Ruth Cummins; photographer Meredith Jenks (Simon & Schuster / March 2015)

The version of this cover which caught my eye was actually wordless — and I believe that was the designer’s original intention — so I’m a wee bit disappointed that the publisher didn’t quite have the courage to follow through on that.

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Worst Person Ever by Douglas Coupland; design by Alex Merto (Plume / March 2015)

One Comment

  1. Philip Fatta

    I’ve been following Alex Merto, very talented !!

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