Well, if the sun’s turned cold and the sky’s got black, it must be April!1 Here are this month’s book cover selections…
The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero; design Allison Saltzman; lettering Boyoun Kim (Ecco / April 2019)
All Ships Follow Me by Mieke Eerkens; design Henry Sene Yee (Picador USA / April 2019)
Another cover for the Lydian file. (I posted a link to this on Twitter, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here — Kaitlyn Tiffany recently wrote a piece on the Lydian phenomenon for Vox if you want to read a bit more about it)
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg; design Lauren Peters-Collaer (Scribner / April 2019)
The Flip by Jeffery J. Kripal; design by Tree Abraham (Bellevue Literary Press / March 2019)
Four Words for Friend by Marek Kohn; design by Clare Skeats (Yale University Press / April 2019)
Some lovely type there… Can anyone tell me what the title typeface is please? It seems like a good alternative for our old friend Lydian there…
The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara; design by Erin Craig; art by Matt Buck (Hanover Square / March 2019)
Is this the first Harlequin book cover to feature on the site? Possibly…
Never a Lovely So Real by Colin Asher; design by Jonathan Bush (W. W. Norton / April 2019)
A couple of bold design decisions here — neither the author name or the subtitle (“The Life and Work of Nelson Algren”) are on the front cover.
The New Me by Halle Butler; design by Rachel Willey (Penguin / March 2019)
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein; design by Stephanie Ross; photograph Matt McClain (Knopf / April 2019)
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami; design by Janet Hansen (Pantheon Books / March 2019)
The Mountain that Eats Men by Ander Izagirre; design by Steve Leard (Zed Books / April 2019)
Swift by David Baker; design by Sarahmay Wilkinson (W.W. Norton / April 2019)
The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona; design by Rachel Willey (Penguin / March 2019)
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young; design by Sarah Huny Young (Ecco / April 2019)
You Are What You Read by Jodie Jackson; design by Steve Leard (Unbound / April 2019)