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Notable YA Covers of 2018

I have to apologize even more than usual for this year’s YA post. I’ve been rushing to get it done before the holidays and I have finally run out of time. But even though this list is far from definitive, there are still lots of great young adult (and one or two middle-grade) covers for you to peruse. Enjoy! 


Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi; design Erin Fitzsimmons (HarperTeen / June 2018)


And She Was by Jessica Verdi; design by Sara Wood (Scholastic / July 2018)


The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke; design by Will Staehle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / October 2018)


The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke; design by Jack Noel (Simon and Schuster / October 2018)


Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi; design Richard Deas (Henry Holt / March 2018)


City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson; design by Dana Li (Speak / May 2018)


Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney; design by Jennifer Griffiths; illustration Christy Lundy (Puffin Canada / May 2018)


The Colors of the Rain by R. L. Toalson; cover art by C. S. Neal (Yellow Jacket / September 2018)


Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram; design by Samira Iravani; art by Adams Carvalho (Dial Books / September 2018)


Dread Nation by Justina Ireland; design by David Curtis; photography by Gustavo Marx (Balzer + Bray / July 2018)


Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi; design by Lizzy Bromley; illustration gg (Simon & Schuster / March 2018)


The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth; design by Erin Fitzsimmons; illustration by Jeff Huang (Katherine Tegen Books / April 2018)


Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobia Laconis; cover art Lisa Perrin (Simon & Schuster / December 2018)


500 Words or Less by Juleah Del Rosario; design by Sarah Creech; illustration by Cannaday Chapman (Simon Pulse / October 2018)


The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell; cover art by Sarah J. Coleman (Clarion / August 2018)


A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena; design by Elizabeth H. Clark (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / March 2018)

The Girl You Thought I Was by Rebecca Phillips; design Michelle Taormina and Alison Klapthor; Photograph by Marta Bevaqua (Harpercollins / July 2018)


Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay; design by David Curtis; illustration by Dadu Shin (HarperCollins / April 2018)


The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert; design by Jim Tierney (Flatiron Books / January 2018)


Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry; design by David Curtis (Katherine Tegen Books / August 2018)


I Am Thunder by Muhammad Khan; design by Rachel Vale (Pan Macmillan / January 2018)


Legendary by Stephanie Garber; design by Erin Fitzsimmons and Ray Shappell (Flatiron Books / May 2018) 


The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James; design David Curtis; illustration Amir Belhoula (HarperTeen / July 2018)


Meet Cute by Jennifer L. Armentrout et al; design Mallory Grigg; illustration by Nina Cosford (HMH / January 2018)


Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson; design by Erin Fitzsimmons (Katherine Tegen Books / May 2018)


Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke; art and lettering by Colin Mercer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / January 2018)


Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi; design by Liz Dresner; Photography by Michael Frost (Feiwel & Friends / June 2018)


People Like Us by Dana Mele; design by Maggie Edkins (Putnam / February 2018)


The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo; design by Erin Fitzsimmons; illustration by Gabriel Moreno (Harper Teen / March 2018)


Pride by Ibi Zoboi; design Jenna Stempel-Lobell (Balzer & Bray / September 2018)


Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith; Design by Lucy Ruth Cummins; art by Mike Perry (Simon & Schuster / September 2018)


Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand; design by Aurora Parlagreco; illustration by Ruben Ireland (Katherine Tegen Books / October 2018)

  
Sadie by Courtney Summers; design by Kerri Resnick; art by Agata Wierzbicka (St. Martin’s Press / September 2018)


Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young; design by Kerri Resnick; illustration by Larry Rostant (Wednesday Books / April 2018)


Smoke and Mirrors by K. D. Halbrook; design Chloe Foglia; cover art by Karl James Mountford (Paula Wiseman Books / September 2018)


Le Projet Starpoint: Le Réveil des Adjinns by Marie-Lorna Vaconsin; design by Yeaaah Studio (La Belle Colère / October 2018)

The cover of the first book in the series, published last year, is also very nice:

      
A Stitch in Time by Daphne Kalmar; cover art by Karl James Mountford (St Martin’s Press / June 2018)


Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman; cover art by Simon Prades (Random House / February 2018)


Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles; design Marcie Lawrence; illustration by Charlotte Day (Little, Brown & Co / March 2018)


Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson; design by Corina Lupp; photography by  Michael Frost (Razorbill / May 2018)


A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi; design by Rodrigo Corral (HarperCollins / October 2018)


The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo; design by Elizabeth H. Clark (Farrar. Straus & Giroux / may 2018)


The Wrinkle in Time Quartet by Madeleine L’Engle; design by Kimberly Glyder (Library of America / September 2018)

Kimberly also designed the cover of The Polly O’Keefe Quartet, volume 2 of the Kairos novels, for Library of America:

The two volumes are available as a boxed set