Oh hey, it’s October, AKA the best month of the year, so this is the last of my monthly cover round-ups for 2019. My look back at the year will be coming soon, so if I have shamefully overlooked your work for the past 10 months, or you want to share a cover design for a book that is coming out in November or December, now would be a really great time to drop me a line! High resolution images are always appreciated. This goes double if you design or illustrate YA covers. 1
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg; design by Catherine Casalino (Hougton Mifflin / October 2019)
Big Bang by David Bowman; design by Jamie Keenan (Corsair / August 2019)
This makes me think of the décollage art of folks like Mimmo Rotella.
The cover of the US edition published by Little, Brown was designed by Gregg Kulick and takes a different pop art approach…
Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer; design Rodrigo Corral (MCD / December 2019)
The cover of the UK edition, out in January 2020 from Fourth Estate, was designed by Jo Walker with an illustration by Alycia Rainaud.
Driving in Cars with Homeless Men by Kate Wisel; design Catherine Casalino (University of Pittsburgh Press / October 2019)
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada; design by Janet Hansen; photography by Arthur Woodcroft (New Directions / October 2019)
Feminist City: A Field Guide by Leslie Kern; design by Ingrid Paulson (Between the Lines / October 2019)
The flaps are fun…
Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio di Chirico; design by Atelier Bingo (Public Space Books / October 2019)
Ghosts of Berlin by Rudolph Herzog; design by Marina Drukman (Melville House / October 2019)
Gorgeous War by Tim Blackmore; design Michel Vrana (Wilfred Laurier University Press / October 2019)
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett; design by Kerri Resnick; illustration Hsiao Ron Cheng (Wednesday Books / October 2019)
Humiliation by Paulina Flores; design by Nicole Caputo (Catapult / November 2019)
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi; design by Erin Fitzsimmons; illustration by Adams Carvalho (HarperTeen / October 2019)
This makes a nice pair with the Adams Carvalho illustration on the cover of We Are the Lost and Found mentioned last month…
Nightmareland by Lex “Lonehood” Nover; design by Linet Huamán Velásquez (TarcherPerigee / October 2019)
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson; design by Allison Saltzman; art by Christian Northeast (Ecco / October 2019)
Not Me by Marianne Dissard; design by Jamie Keenan (October 2019)
One of the more disturbing covers of the year I think…
One Day by Gene Weingarten; design by David Litman (Blue Rider / October 2019)
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke; design by Anne Jordan & Mitch Goldstein (Open Letter Books / December 2019)
Space Struck by Paige Lewis; design by Alban Fischer (Sarabande Books / October 2019)
Suspect Communities by Nicole Nguyen; design by Matt Avery (University of Minnesota Press / October 2019)
Redaction on covers is most definitely in…
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner; design by Rodrigo Corral (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / October 2019)
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi; design Jonny Pelham (Faber & Faber / October 2019)
Are we seeing the beginnings of a psychedelia revival? There are a couple of covers coming in 2020 in addition to these three that make me think we might be…
Amazing blog! Seriously, so glad I found you! This is a great collection, can’t wait for the next batch!
Thanks, Neo. :-)