Next month I’ll say goodbye to 2015 with my annual list of my favourite covers of the year. Until then, here’s November’s book covers of note, my last monthly covers post for the 2015:
Baddeley Brothers by The Gentle Author; design David Pearson (October 2015)
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya; design by Devin Washburn (FSG / November 2015)
(I previously included Devin’s cover in my November 2014 post before discovering that publication had been postponed until 2015. It’s so good that I figure it deserved a second shot now the book is finally coming out this month.)
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Special Edition); design James Paul Jones (Oneworld / November 2015)
The Book of Magic by Brian Copenhaver; design Matthew Young (Penguin / November 2015)
Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh; design by Lindsay Starr (University of Texas; October 2015)
Drinking in America by Susan Cheever; design by Rex Bonomelli (Twelve Books / October 2015)
Early Stories of Truman Capote; design by David Pearson (Penguin / November 2015)
The Eternal Zero Naoki Hyakuta; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vertical / November 2015)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum; design by Gabrielle Bordwin; Photographer Mihaela Ninic (Random House / August 2015)
Home is Burning by Dan Marshall; design by Rodrigo Corral (Flatiron / October 2015)
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson; design Edel Rodriguez (Random House / August 2015?)1
Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson; design by Edel Rodriguez (Random House / August 2015)
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill; design by Oliver Munday (Pantheon / November 2015)
Mass Disruption by John Stackhouse; design by Scott Richardson (Random House Canada / October 2015)
Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting; design by John Gall (Abrams / October 2015)
The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Schiolino; design by Strick & Williams (W.W. Norton / November 2015)
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken; design by Adly Elewa (Melville House / September 2015)
Some Recollections of a Busy Life by T.S. Hawkins; design by Jessica Hische; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook (McSweeney’s / November 2015)
Souffles-Anfas edited by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio; design Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Stanford University Press / November 2015)
Southern Insurgency by Immanuel Ness; design by Jamie Keenan (Pluto Press / November 2015)
Trace by Lauret Savory; design by Debbie Berne (Counterpoint / November 2015)
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello; design by Spencer Kimble (Blue Rider Press / October 2015)
I like this paperback cover for Hausfrau *so* much better than the hardback cover, which looks like a fabric sample from Grandma’s kitchen curtains. And I remember reading an article somewhere (here?) about how that hardback cover went through eleventy-kajillion iterations so they could get it juuuuuust right.
The hardcover reminded me of Peter Saville’s cover for Power, Corruption, Lies by New Order, but, yes, there is a video showing all the iterations the jacket went through before getting to that final design — funnily enough, the paperback cover was one of them (it appears at around the 35 second mark in the video).
Hello these are great covers for books. I really loved them.
Thank you from India!