Here are my book cover selections for July…
Brooklyn Mom & Pop by Herb Lester Associates; design Amy Hood (Herb Lester Associates / July 2018)
Another very nice looking guide from the folks at Herb Lester. The question is, where are the guides to Canadian cities?
Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin; design by Kelly Blair (Knopf / June 2018)
Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win by Jo Piazza; design by Zak Tebbal (Simon & Schuster / July 2018)
In other news, hand-lettered covers aren’t going anywhere (and apparently underlining is a “thing”)…
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; design by Luke Bird (Portobello Books / July 2018)
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce; design by Kimberly Glyder (Scribner /. July 2018)
The cover of the UK edition, published earlier this year by Picador, was designed by Katie Tooke. You can read about the design process for the UK cover here.
Florida by Lauren Groff; design by Grace Han (Riverhead / June 2018)
The cover of Groff’s 2015 novel Fates and Furies (also published by Riverhead) was designed by Rodrigo Corral and Adalis Martinez:
The Girl You Thought I Was by Rebecca Phillips; design Michelle Taormina and Alison Klapthor; Photograph by Marta Bevaqua (Harpercollins / July 2018)
Besides using a beautiful photograph, I get the sense this cover is very much on trend, and not just for YA — I’ve seen the cover of a thriller coming out this fall that also uses a close-cropped image of a woman’s face, a similar sans-serif type, and a warm sepia colour palette.
Good Trouble by Joseph O’Neill; design by Janet Hansen (Pantheon / June 2018)
Gorse No.10 edited by Christodoulos Makris; design by Niall McCormack (July 2018)
All of Niall’s covers for Gorse are great. No.9 was featured in my November 2017 post:
Also, yellow-orange covers are clearly “in” right now…
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes; design Helen Crawford-White (Scribner / July 2018)
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz; design by Luke Bird (Daunt Books / June 2018)
One for the sideways covers list (I have kind of stop collecting these, but there are more here).
The cover of the US edition of In the Distance, published by Coffee House Press, features artwork by Jason Fulford.
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold; design by Tyler Comrie (Knopf / June 2018)
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon; design Jaya Miceli (Riverhead / July 2018)
Smile by Roddy Doyle; design and lettering by Nick Misani (Viking / October 2017)
OK, so I am very late to this one. I saw it last year and didn’t know who the designer was — I only found out this week when art director Jason Ramirez revealed that it was one of the TDC Communication Design Competition winners this year!
Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor by Dave Haslam; design Bekki Guyatt (Constable / May 2018)
Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale; design by Alice Marwick (Atlantic Books / July 2018)
There There by Tommy Orange; design by Suzanne Dean; art by Bryn Perrott (Harvill Secker / July 2018)
The cover of the US edition, published by Knopf, is another Tyler Comrie design:
A feast for the eyes.