As it is almost the end of October this is going to be my last monthly round-up for 2020. I will endeavour to put together a post on the book covers of year soon, but I am sure a lot of great work skimmed under my radar, so designers please drop me a line if I have missed a cover (or two!) you really loved working on (the book has to have been published this year), especially if it was for an independent or university press. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this month’s selections.
The Acrobats of Agra by Robin Scott-Elliot; design by Holly Ovenden (Everything with Words / October 2020)
The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic; design by Jack Smyth (Open Letter / November 2020)
Always Brave Sometimes Kind by Katie Bickell; design by Tree Abraham (Touchwood Editions / September 2020)
Anger by Barbara H. Rosenwein; design by Alex Kirby (Yale University Press / July 2020)
Be My Guest by Priya Basil; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / November 2020)
Cesare by Jerome Charyn; design by Elsa Mathern (No Exit Press / November 2020)
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata; design by Luke Bird (Granta / September 2020)
Hitler and Stalin by Laurence Rees; design by David Pearson (Viking / October 2020)
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada; design by Janet Hansen (New Directions / October 2020)
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher; design by Chelsea McGuckin (Saga Press / October 2020)
Infrastructures of the Apocalypse by Jessica Hurley; design by Matt Avery / Monograph Studio (University of Minnesota Press / October 2020)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab; design by Will Staehle (Tor / October 2020)
Kreminology of Kisses by Barbara Bleiman; design Alex Kirby (Blue Door Press / November 2020)
They’re really not all that alike (it’s funny how memory constantly plays this trick on me), but the colour palette and the typographic approach of Alex’s cover reminded me Luke Bird’s 2017 cover for Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam; design by Sara Wood; art ‘Night Swimming’ by Jessica Brilli (Ecco / October 2020)
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow; design by Lisa Marie Pomilio (Redhook / October 2020)
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark; design by Henry Sene Yee (Tor / October 2020)
Selected Poems of John Berryman edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae; design Jaya Miceli (Belknap Press / October 2020)
The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter; design Tyler Comrie (Pantheon / November 2020)
Talking Animals by Joni Murphy; design by Na Kim; photograph by KOEKKOEK (FSG / August 2020)
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify by Carolyn Holbrook; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Minnesota Press / July 2020)
Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour; design by Samira Iravani; illustration by Pippa Young (Dutton / September 2020)
Interestingly, two previous covers designed by Samira for Nina Lacour titles have featured illustrations by Adams Carvalho.
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour; design by Samira Iravani; illustration by Adams Carvalho (Dutton / February 2017)
Worked Over by Jamie K. McCallum; design by Chin-Yee Lai (Basic Books / September 2020)
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