Here are the book covers that caught my eye this month…
Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage; design by Lisa Jager (Knopf Canada / August 2018)
The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / May 2018)
This goes rather nicely with Sunra’s cover for the hardcover of All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews…
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke; design by Elizabeth H. Clark; illustration by Will Staehle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / October 2018)
The Death Scene Artist by Andrew Wilmot; design by Michel Vrana (Wolsak & Wynn / October 2018)
I guess skulls aren’t going out of fashion any time soon!
‘Exterminate the Brutes’ by Sven Lindqvist; design by Luke Bird (Granta / October 2018)
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis; design by Pete Garceau (W. W. Norton / October 2018)
I feel like I should at least try to collect some of the best political covers from the past year or so together into a post at some point. On the other hand, I really don’t want to…
Gin: Distilled by Gin Foundry; design by James Paul Jones (Ebury Press / October 2018)
The Infinite Blacktop by Sara Gran; design by Alex Merto (Atria Books / September 2018)
Nervous States by William Davies; design by Suzanne Dean (Jonathan Cape / September 2018)
No Country Woman by Zoya Patel; design by Astred Hicks (Hachette Australia / August 2018)
Océans by James Hyndman; design by David Drummond (Les Éditions XYZ / September 2018)
Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith; Design by Lucy Ruth Cummins; art by Mike Perry (Simon & Schuster / September 2018)
Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / October 2018)
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand; design by Aurora Parlagreco; illustration by Ruben Ireland (Katherine Tegen Books / October 2018)
Something Great and Beautiful by Enrico Pellegrini; design by Gray318 (Other Press / September 2018)
I’m not entirely sure why, but cover of Something Great and Beautiful brought to mind the 2014 cover of the UK edition of The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison, designed by Tom Darracott for Granta. They’re really not that similar, and yet…
Son of Amity by Peter Nathaniel Malae; design by David Drummond (Oregon State University Press / October 2018)
Statistics Without Tears by Derek Rowntree; design by Matthew Young (Penguin / June 2018)
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald; design by Grace Han (Riverhead Books / October 2018)
Are black and white stripes / op art having a moment in New York?
Both these covers reminded me of Riverhead art director Helen Yentus’s black and white cover for The Stranger by Albert Camus:
Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights by Jay Rayner; design by Dan Mogford (Faber & Faber / October 2018)
Great group of covers here as always. The type on Red Birds is beautiful. Drummond is on fire as always and there is just no shortage of ways to present the American flag…
Hey, thanks Ian! It’s been a while. Hope you’re well. :-)