I hope you’re all safe and well. Here are the book covers that caught the attention this month…
B.F.F. by Christie Tate; design by Ben Wiseman (Avid Reader Press / February 2023)
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin; design Jaya Miceli; art by Anna Weyant (Scribner / February 2023)
Brutes by Dizz Tate; design by Nicole Caputo (Catapult / February 2023)
Couplets by Maggie Millner; design by June Park (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2023)
The cover of the UK edition of Couplets was designed by Kishan Rajani for Faber. It’s interesting that both covers use vertical type.
Dominion (50th Anniversary Edition) by Tom Holland; design by David Pearson (Abacus / February 2023)
8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty; design by Rodrigo Corral (Simon & Schuster / January 2023)
The Employees by Olga Ravn; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / February 2023)
The back cover is also rad… (thanks to Erik at New Directions for sending it over!)
I have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai; design by Elizabeth Yaffe (Viking / February 2023)
The Laughter by Sonora Jha; design by Alicia Tatone; art by Vartika Sharma (Harpervia / February 2023)
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer; design by Vi-An Nguyen; illustration by Jessica Cruickshank (Berkley Books / January 2023)
Sam by Allegra Goodman; design by Donna Cheng; photograph by Mariam Sitchinava (Dial Press / January 2023)
I’m not sure exactly why, but I just assumed this was a UK cover when I first saw it (despite it literally having “New York Times Bestselling Author” in all-caps at the top!).
The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman; design by Pete Adlington; illustration by Bill Bragg (Faber / February 2023)
Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras; translated by Rhonda Mullins ; design by Ingrid Paulson (Coach House / February 2023)
For some reason this makes me think of the ‘weird nature’ (including animals with human eyes!) in Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, which is still one of my favourite novels of the last 10 years…
True Life by Adam Zagajewski; design by Jeff Clark (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2023)
Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman; design by Pete Garceau (PublicAffairs / January 2023)
I also saw Pete Garceau’s cover for School House Burning by Derek W. Black recently, which snuck past me when it was published by PublicAffairs in September 2020 but still seems terribly au courant…
Wolfish by Erica Berry; design by Keith Hayes; illustration by Rokas Aleliunas (Flatiron / February 2023)
Coincidentally, Rokas Aleliunas’s website is casualpolarbear.com.