Apparently it is June already. I’m pretty sure it’s a terrible mistake.
Here are your book covers of note.
Aug 9 — Fog by Kathryn Scanlan; design by Na Kim (Farrar Straus & Giroux MCD / June 2019)
Cogito by Victor Dixen; design by Jim Tierney (Collection R / May 2019)
This reminded me of something. I’m not sure exactly what. The best I could up with was Nicole Caputo‘s stripey op-art cover for Liveblog by Megan Boyle, but that’s not it at all…
The Girl at the Door by Veronica Raimo; design by Julian Humphries (Fourth Estate / June 2019)
The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey; design by Will Staehle (Harper Voyager / June 2019)
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson; design by Na Kim (Scribner / April 2019)
The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write by Gregory Orr; design by Jared Oriel (W.W. Norton / June 2019)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachman; design by Peter Mendelsund (New Directions / June 2019)
Norco ’80 by Peter Houlahan; design by Jaya Miceli (Counterpoint / June 2019)
November by Jorge Galán; design by Steve Leard (Little, Brown / June 2019)
I’m starting to detect a colour scheme at work here, Steve… ;-)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong; design by Darren Haggar; photograph by Sam Contis (Penguin Press / June 2019)
Are we seeing a trend for close cropped photographs of… arms? (Don’t get me wrong, these are both beautiful photographs / covers.)
Also of note in a compare-and-contrast sort of way, the cover of the UK edition of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous published by Jonathan Cape was designed by Suzanne Dean:
Open Me by Lisa Locascio; design by Kelly Winton; collage by Katrien de Blauwer (Grove / June 2019)
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn; design by Steve Attardo; handlettering by Sarahmay Wilkinson (Liveright / June 2019)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh; design by David Curtis (Tor / June 2019)
The Social Photo by Nathan Jurgenson; design by Pablo Delcan (Verso / May 2019)
The Sun On My Head by Geovani Martins; design by Clare Skeats (Faber & Faber / June 2019)
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri; design by Christopher Gale (Canongate / May 2019)
The White Death by Gabriel Urza; design by Joan Wong (Nouvella / June 2019)
This reminds me (a little bit) of the Penguin English Library covers art directed by Coralie Bickford-Smith a few years ago:
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll by Casey Rae; design by Matt Avery (University of Texas Press / June 2019)
Haha! Thanks Dan. Must be the Arsenal fan in me making all of these red and white covers!
Have you noticed that a lot of book covers use the same font as the one on “The Ungrateful Refugee”? It’s almost starting to be overused in my opinion.
Is the Cogito cover maybe reminding you of Julian Gough’s Connect or John Darnelle’s Wolf in White Van? Very similar crowded single-width line art and vertical text arrangement.