Meh. February. At least it’s almost over (and the book covers are good).
The Bear by Andrew Krivak; design by Alban Fischer (Bellevue Literary Press / February 2020)
(I read an ARC of The Bear last year (full disclosure: the folks that pay me distribute Bellevue Literary Press in Canada), and haven’t really stopped talking about it since, so I may as well mention here too. It’s very sincere, and reminiscent of the kind of Cold War science fiction in which war and environmental catastrophe have led to the end of civilization. It is not dystopian though. It reads rather like beautiful melancholy fable. I liked it a lot.)
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham; design Nicole Caputo (Catapult / February 2020
Losing Eden by Lucy Jones; design by Tom Etherington (Allen Lane / February 2020)
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata; design by John Gall (Hanover Square Press / February 2020)
One for the meta-covers list (and does the use of Lydian on the cover of a book on the cover of book count as ironic?)
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave; design by Lucy Kim (Little Brown & Co / February 2020)
The cover of the UK edition published by Picador was designed by Katie Tooke I believe (and if anyone can tell me who the did the illustration — based on traditional Norwegian folk art rosemaling — I would be grateful!)
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong; design by Na Kim (One World / February 2020)
The cover of UK edition, which Profile Books is publishing next month, was designed by Steve Panton:
Pallbearing Stories by Michael Melgaard; design by Alysia Shewchuk (House of Anansi / February 2020)
Rendang by Will Harris; design by David Pearson (Granta / February 2020)
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes; design by Gill Heeley (Canongate / February 2020)
The cover of the US edition, published last year by Akashic Books, was designed by Christian Fuenfhausen…
This Brilliant Darkness by Jeff Sharlet; design by Sarahmay Wilkinson (W.W. Norton / February 2020)
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote; design by Jennifer Carrow (Grand Central / February 2020)
Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2020)
Whistleblower by Susan Fowler; design by Catherine Casalino (Viking / February 2020)
Nice type.
Weather by Jenny Offill; design by John Gall (Knopf / February 2020)
There haven’t been very many John Gall covers on the blog recently, so it’s a delight to post two in the same month. And this really is a most Gallian of John Gall covers.
The cover of the UK edition of Weather, published by Granta, was designed by Gray318…
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is one of my favorite book covers of the year so far. I saw it in the store and couldn’t look away. I had to pick it up and read a couple pages.