This is the last of the monthly cover round-ups for 2014, and I have a lot to cram in before I start on my big end of year list, so it’s a bit of corker (if I do say so myself) with lots of gold foil and other fancy finishes:
Amnesia by Peter Carey; design by Alex Kirby (Faber & Faber / October 2014)
(The dust jacket is actually acetate)
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis; illustration by Matt Taylor; type design and art direction by Richard Bravery (Viking / August 2014)
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya; design by Devin Washburn (FSG / December 2014)
Convulsing Bodies by Mark D. Jordan; design by Anne Jordan (Stanford University Press / October 2014)
Critical Journeys by Robert Schroeder; design Jana Vukovic (Library Juice Press / September 2014)
Dear Reader by Paul Fournel; illustration by Jean Jullien (Pushkin Press / November 2014)
The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings; design by Devin Washburn (Liveright / October 2014)
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein; design Christopher Silas Neal (Crown / September 2014)
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick; design by Gray318 (Little Brown & Co / July 2014)
Girl Defective by Simmone Howell; design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover; illustration Jeffrey Everett (Atheneum / September 2014)
(I also really like Sandy Cull’s design for the Australian edition published by Pan Macmillan in 2013)
The Hoarders by Scott Herring; design by David Drummond (University of Chicago Press / November 2014)
In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / September 2014)
Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter; design by Scott Richardson (Doubleday Canada / November 2014)
It’s Not Me It’s You by Mhairi McFarlane; design by Heike Schüssler; illustration by Gianmarco Magnani / Silence Television (HarperCollins / November 2014)
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart; design by Rodrigo Corral Design (Random House / October 2014)
Smoke Proofs by Andrew Steeves; design by Andrew Steeves (Gaspereau Press / September 2014)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin / November 2014)
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen; design by Nathan Burton (Pushkin Press / September 2014)
(The hardcover edition, designed by David Pearson, is also amazing)
Sailing the Forest by Robin Robertson; design by Neil Lang (Picador / September 2014)
(The skull is gold foil on the finished book)
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker; design by Louise Fili; illustration by R. O. Blechman (Viking / September 2014)
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker; design by Jim Stoddart & Isabelle de Cat; photograph by Kayla Varley (Penguin / September 2014)
Tales of the Marvellous and the Strange translated by Malcolm C. Lyons; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith Isabelle de Cat; illustration by Nina Chakrabarti (Penguin / November 2014)
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter; design by Charlotte Strick; photograph by Natalie Dirks (FSG / November 2014)
What I Want to Tell You Goes Like This by Matt Rader; design by Ben Didier / Pretty/Ugly Design (Nightwood Editions / October 2014 )
You by Caroline Kepnes; design by Natalie Sousa (Atria / September 2014)