The entire book industry isn’t on vacation. It only seems that way. 1 Here’s August’s book covers of note…
The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction by Tom Perrin; design Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Macmillan / August 2016)
Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes by Jules Moulin; design by Darren Booth (Dutton / August 2015)
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman; design by Na Kim (Scribner / July 2015)
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpoint; design by Strick&Williams (Random House / July 2015)
Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / August 2015)
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan; design by Darren Haggar (Penguin / July 2015)
Black Hole by Bucky Sinister; design by Matt Dorfman (Soft Skull / August 2015)
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore; design by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Verso / August 2015)
Death by Video Game by Simon Parkin; design by Steve Panton (Serpent’s Tail / August 2015)
The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis de Bernières; design by Oliver Munday (Pantheon / August 2015)
Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn; design by James Paul Jones (Bodley Head / July 2015)
And because it’s always interesting to see US and UK covers side by side…
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott; design by Alex Merto (Riverhead / August 2015)
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott; design by Stuart Bache (Borough Press / July 2015)
Katrina by Gary Rivlin; design by Julius Reyes (Simon & Schuster / August 2015)
Landline by Rainbow Rowell; design by Olga Grlic; hand-lettering by Jim Tierney (St. Martin’s Press / July 2015)
Memoirs of a Dipper by Nell Leyshon; design by Gray318 (Fig Tree / June 2015)
Narcisa by Jonathan Shaw; design Milan Bozic (Harpercollins / March 2015)
New American Stories edited by Ben Marcus; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage / July 2015)
Street Poison by Justin Gifford; design by Michael J. Windsor (Doubleday / August 2015)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang; design by Tom Darracott (Portobello / January 2015)
Wicked and Weird by Rich Terfry; design by Scott Richardson (Doubleday Canada / August 2015)