With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I would share a few book covers that use hearts as part of their design…
All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi; design by Jamie Keenan (W. W. Norton / July 2011)
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley; design by David Ter-Avanesyan (Simon & Schuster / March 2006)
American Supernatural Tales edited by S. T. Joshi ; design by Paul Buckley (Penguin / October 2013)
Amy and Matthew by Cammie McGovern; design by Sharon King-Chai (Macmillan Children’s Books / March 2014)
The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge; design by Heads of State (Penguin / October 2011)
Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Jill Wolfson; design by Jack Noel (Walker Books / November 2011 )
Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller; design by Lynn Buckley (New Harvest / July 2013)
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert; design by Helen Crawford-White; illustration by Illustration Yulia Brodskaya (Bloomsbury / January 2011)
Don’t You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn; design by Catherine Casalino (Villard Books / July 2008)
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger; design by Rose Stallard (Serpents Tail / January 2014)
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf / April 2014)
Fraught Intimacies by Nathan Rambukkana; design by David Drummond (UBC Press / May 2015)
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank; cover art by Lina Stigsson (Penguin / July 2011)
Gloss by Marilyn Kaye; design by Rachel Vale (Macmillan Children’s Books / June 2013 )
Happy are the Happy by Yesmina Reza; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker / July 2014)
The recently released US edition of Happy are the Happy published by Other Press, and designed by Kathleen DiGrado, also features a heart on the cover (if you know who the designer is, please let me know):
Heart of the City by Ariel Sabar; design by Henry Sene Yee (Da Capo / January 2011)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; design by Paul Buckley; art by Mike Mignola (Penguin / August 2012)
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / September 2011)
How to Love by Katie Cotugno; design by Alison Klapthor; cover art by Alison Carmichael (Balzer + Bray / October 2013)
The Hundred Hearts by William Kowalski; design by Michel Vrana (Thomas Allen / May 2013)
In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / September 2014)
In Case We Die by Danny Bland; design by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics / September 2013)
Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Mac McClelland; design by Keith Hayes (Flatiron Books / February 2014)
Learning to Love Form 1040 by Lawrence Zelenak; design by Isaac Tobin (University of Chicago Press / April 2013 )
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; design by Michael Bierut (Lolita Book Cover Project / 2013)
Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht; translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn; design by Jennifer Heuer (W. W. Norton / December 2014)
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan; design by Jennifer Carrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2011)
Love’s Winning Plays by Inman Majors; design by Eric White (W. W. Norton / July 2013)
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Rob Dunn; design by Ploy Siripant (Little, Brown & Co. / February 2015)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides; design by Jo Walker (Fourth Estate / April 2012)
The Messenger by Markus Zusak; design by Sandy Cull / gogoGingko (Pan Macmillan / November 2013)
On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu; design by Lynn Buckley (Riverhead / July 2013)
P. S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern; design by Heike Schüssler (HarperCollins / January 2014)
Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz; design by Angela Goddard (Simon & Schuster / January 2013)
Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby; design by Erin Fitzsimmons (HarperCollins / May 2015)
The Wet Engine by Brian Doyle; design by David Drummond (Oregon State University / May 2012)
With or Without You by Domencia Ruta; design by Greg Mollica; lettering by Rebecca Siegel (Spiegel & Grau / February 2013)
nice collection ;)
Thanks Alexander. Appreciate it. :-)
Missing my cover on here for “Alternative to Sex” by Stephen McCauley :)
Thanks David. Fire me a hi-res jpeg of the cover and I’ll be happy to add it :-) hello@casualoptimist.com