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Book Covers of Note June 2014

Well, this seems to have become a regular thing doesn’t it? I have to confess that I still haven’t quite figured out exactly what covers to include in these monthly posts, only that they’re recent and I like them. It’s even harder to decide what to leave out. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this month’s selection. Leave your thoughts in the comments…
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Abroad by Katie Crouch; design by Rodrigo Corral (FSG June 2014)

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Archetype by M. D. Waters; design by Jaya Miceli (Plume June 2014)

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The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison; design by Tom Darracott (Granta June 2014)

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Foxes on the Trampoline by Charlotte Boulay; design Steve Attardo (HarperCollins April 2014)

falling-out-of-time-kelly-blairFalling Out of Time by David Grossman; design by Kelly Blair (Jonathan Cape February 2014)

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Half Bad by Sally Green; design by Tim Green / Faceout Studio (Viking March 2014)

Iceland-sahreThe Iceland by Sakutaro Hagiwara; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions June 2014)

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The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk; design by Alex Merto, photograph Eleanor Hardwick (Spiegel & Grau February 2014)

mount-londonMount London by Tom Chivers & Martin Kratz; design by Ben Anslow (Penned in the Margins May 2014)

OutlawsOutlaws by Javier Cercas; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury June 2014)

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Night Work by Jáchym Topol; design by Bobby Evans / Telegramme Studio (Portobello Books May 2014)

secret-world-of-oilThe Secret World of Oil by Ken Silverstein; design by Matt Dorfman (Verso May 2014)

Sick RoseThe Sick Rose or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration by Richard Barnett; design by Daniel Streat / Barnbrook Studios (Thames & Hudson June 2014)

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The Good Suicides by Antonio Hill; design by Christopher Brand (Crown June 2014)

thirty-girlsThirty Girls by Susan Minot; design by Kate Gaughran (4th Estate February 2014)

the-vacationersThe Vacationers by Emma Straub; design by Janet Hansen (Riverhead May 2014)

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Book Cover Design on Tumblr

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There is a Casual Optimist Tumblr as you know, but I don’t post a lot of new book covers there. Fortunately there are other Tumblrs that do focus on book cover design if that’s your thing. Here are a few that I follow:

 

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Book Covrs (pictured above: Trying Not To Try by Edward Slingerland; design by Gray318)

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Booketing (pictured above: One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper; design by Jim Tierney)

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CMYK  / Vintage Books (pictured above: The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman; design by Julia Connolly)

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HarperCollins Design (pictured above: Treachery by S. J. Parris; design by Alexandra Allden, illustration by Daren Newman)

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Penguin Design (Pictured above: The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck; design by Jim Stoddart)

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Random House Art Department (pictured above: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; design by Eric White)

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Verso Covers (pictured above: The Oil Road by James Marriott and Mike Mino-Paluello; design by Alex Merto)

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There are also several book designers who are on Tumblr in their own right. Here are some that use it showcase their work: Robin Bilardello, David Gee, Kimberly Glyder, Greg Heinimann, James Paul Jones, Oliver Munday, and Stephanie Ross. (Pictured above: The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg; design by Kimberly Glyder)

Who am I missing? Let me know what book design Tumblrs you follow!

(Pictured top: The Quick by Lauren Owen, illustration by Jim Kay, taken from Vintage UK’s CMYK Tumblr)

Update:

Two I missed…

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Hey, Good Bookin’ (pictured above: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle; design by Timothy Goodman)

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Lovely Bookcovers (pictured above: Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan; design by Leo Nickolls)

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Recent Book Covers of Note April 2014

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The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman; design by Pablo Delcán (Pantheon January 2014)

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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Jo Thomson (Picador March 2014)

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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Helen Yentus (Riverhead March 2014)

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Chop Chop by Simon Wroe; design by Ben Wiseman (Penguin April 2014)

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Danish Dynamite: The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team by Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen & Mike Gibbons; design by Steve Leard (Bloomsbury April 2014)

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Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; design by Gray318 (Granta March 2014)

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The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf April 2014)

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L’Exception by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir; design by David Pearson (Éditions Zulma April 2014)

David’s cover design for Rosa Candida by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Éditions Zulma March 2011) is also stunning.

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Mistakes I Made at Work edited by Jessica Bacal; design by Jaya Miceli (Plume April 2014)

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Quand j’étais l’Amérique by Elsa Pépin; design by David Drummond (Les Éditions XYZ April 2014)

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Resurrection by Wolf Haas; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House January 2014)

The cover for next book in the series, Come, Sweet Death! (Melville House July 2014), is great too.

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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll by Lisa Robinson; design by Alex Merto (Riverhead April 2014)

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Recent Covers of Note March 2014

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The Arsonist by Sue Miller; design by Greg Heinimann

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Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor; design by Clare Skeats

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Beauty by Frederick Dillen; design by Christopher Lin

Mabey Dreams
Dreams of the Good Life by Richard Mabey; illustration by Millie Marotta; design Samantha Johnson / Coralie Bickford-Smith

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Les fantômes fument en cachette by Miléna Babin; design by David Drummond

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Frog Music by Emma Donoghue; design by Katie Tooke; illustration Emma Farrarons

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Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun; design by Julia Connolly

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The Improbability Principle by David J. Hand; design by Oliver Munday

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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; design by Jamie Keenan

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The New New Thing by Michael Lewis; design by Darren Haggar

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On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Louis Althusser; design by Neil Donnelly

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The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed; design by Gabriele Wilson

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The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert; design by Alex Merto

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The Trip to Echo Spring by Oliva Laing; design by Henry Sene Yee

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Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf; design by Allison Colpoys

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