Here are your February book covers of note…
Anonymous Sex edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan; design Holly MacDonald; illustration Malika Favre (The Borough Press / February 2022)
Malika Favre also designed and illustrated the cover of Playing with Matches by Michael Faudet, published by Andrews McMeel at the end of last year, and featured in this month’s ‘Book Covers We Love‘ post at Spine Magazine.
Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear; design by Mia Kwon (Bloomsbury / February 2022)
I like Mia Kwon’s cover for Breath Better Spent by Damaris B. Hill, published by Bloomsbury last month, too…
The Colony by Audrey Magee; design by Jack Smyth (Faber & Faber / February 2022)
The cover of the US edition, available from FSG in May, was design by Jaya Miceli:
The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund; design by Chloe Scheffe (Picador USA / February 2022)
Alex Merto‘s design for the hardcover was one of my notable book covers of the year in 2021:
The Go-Between by Osman Yousefzada; design by Gill Heeley (Canongate / January 2022)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu; design by Jaya Miceli (Tin House / February 2022)
New Animal by Ella Baxter; design by Ami Smithson; photograph by Alfonso Vidal-Quadras (Picador / February 2022)
The fruity cover of the Australian edition published by Allen and Unwin last year was designed by Akiko Chan, while the hot pink US edition was designed in-house by Eric Obenauf at Two Dollar Radio I believe.
Path of Totality by Niina Pollari; design by Michael Salu (Soft Skull / February 2022)
The Perfect Sound by Garrett Hongo; design by John Gall (Pantheon / February 2022)
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti; design by Na Kim (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2022)
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka; design by Gabriele Wilson (Knopf / February 2022)
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso; design by Leanne Shapton (Hogarth / February 2022)
Watergate by Garrett M. Graff; design by Alison Forner (Avid Reader Press / February 2022)
For obvious reasons, this brought to mind Paul Sahre‘s cover for the novel Watergate by Thomas Mallon from a few (10?? OMG) years back.