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Since 2010, I’ve posted an annual survey of the year in book covers. The post has expanded and developed over the past 7 years, but essentially it is a collection of the covers published in the previous 12 months that I found interesting or noteworthy in some way. As with the previous couple of years, the 2017 list is organized by covers (alphabetical by title), and by designer so that I can show a greater variety of work, and no one designer or studio dominates. 

Thank you to everyone who has supported the blog this year, and special thanks to all the designers, art directors, authors, publishers, and fellow design enthusiasts who have helped me with covers and design credits. My sincere apologies to the designers and publishers not on this year’s list and whose covers I have overlooked in the past 12 months. 

A post looking back on the YA covers of 2017 is to follow.    

Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle design by Laura Thomas (Scribe / July 2017)

Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra; design by Matthew Young (Allen Lane / February 2017)

The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil; design by Nick Misani (Grove Press / September 2017)

All We Saw by Anne Michaels; design by Janet Hansen; photograph by Jouke Bos (Knopf / October 2017)

Also designed by Janet Hansen:

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / August 2017)

A Selfie As Big As the Ritz by Lara Williams; design by Janet Hansen; art by Nathan Manire (Flat Iron Books / October 2017)

Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller; design by Elena Giavaldi; art by Lee Price (Liveright / January 2017)

Also designed by Elena Giavaldi:

White Fur by Jardine Libarie; design by Elena Giavaldi (Hogarth / May 2017)

The Leavers by Lisa Ko; design by Elena Giavaldi (Algonquin / May 2017)

The Angry Chef by Anthony Warner; design by Steven Leard (Oneworld / June 2017)

Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou; design by Gray318 (Serpent’s Tail / April 2017)

Also designed by Gray318:

The Blot by Jonathan Lethem; design by Gray318 (Jonathan Cape / February 2017)

The Beast by Alexander Starritt; design by Gray318 (Head of Zeus / September 2017)

Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic; design by Gray318 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / April 2017)

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; design by Peter Mendelsund (New Directions / August 2017)

Also designed by Peter Mendelsund:

A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma; design Peter Mendelsund (W.W. Norton / July 2017)

Civil Wars by David Armitage; design by Peter Mendelsund (Yale University Press / February 2017)

White Tears by Hari Kunzru; design by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf / March 2017)

The Cutaway by Christina Kovac; design by Laywan Kwan (Atria / March 2017)

Also designed by Laywan Kwan:

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent; design by Laywan Kwan (Scout Press / August 2017)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; design by Laywan Kwan (Atria / June 2017)

Don’t Save Anything by Jame Salter; design by Zoe Norvell (Counterpoint / November 2017)

England Your England by George Orwell; design by David Pearson (Penguin Modern Classics / March 2017)

Also designed by David Pearson:

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell; design by David Pearson (Penguin / March 2017)

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; design David Pearson (Pluto Press / January 2017)

Black Skins, White Masks by Frantz Fanon; design by David Pearson (Pluto Press / May 2017)

English Uprising by Paul Stocker; design by Jamie Keenan (Melville House / September 2017)

Also designed by Jamie Keenan:

The Poems of Dylan Thomas; design by Jamie Keenan (New Directions / November 2017)

Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia; design Jamie Keenan (Atria / October 2017)

The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi; design by Jamie Keenan (Faber & Faber / May 2017)

The Experiment by Eric Lee; design by David A. Gee (Zed Books / September 2017)

Also designed by David Gee:

Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face by Timothy O’Leary; design by David A. Gee (Unsolicited Press / February 2017)

Storming Heaven by Steve Wright; design by David A. Gee (Pluto Press / July 2017)

I Am Not A Brain by Markus Gabriel; design by David A. Gee (Polity Press / September 2017)

The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo; design by Alison Forner (Simon & Schuster / March 2017)

The Futures by Anna Pitoniak; design by Lauren Harms (Lee Boudreaux Books / January 2017)

Also designed by Lauren Harms:

The Good People by Hannah Kent; design by Lauren Harms (Little, Brown & Co / September 2017)

The Futilitarians by Anne Gisleson; design by Lauren Harms (Little Brown & Co. / August 2017)

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag; design by Luke Bird (Faber & Faber / April 2017)

Also designed by Luke Bird:

he Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico; design by Luke Bird (Faber & Faber / February 2017)

The Rise The Fall The Rise by Brix Smith Start; design by Luke Bird; photography by Kevin Cummins (Faber & Faber / march 2017)

The Good People by Hannah Kent; design by Rachel Vale (Picador / February 2017)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; art direction by Christopher Moisan; illustration by Patrik Svensson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / April 2017)

This HMH cover was my favourite of the new editions of The Handmaid’s Tales, but Noma Bar’s cover for Vintage UK was also nice.

The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / March 2017)

Also designed by Allison Saltzman: 

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / October 2017)

Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / October 2017)

Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly; design by Alex Merto; photograph by Gregory Reid (W.W. Norton / December 2017)

Also designed by Alex Merto:

The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse by Rich Cohen; design by Alex Merto (FSG / October 2017)

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott; design by Alex Merto (FSG / September 2017)

Safe by Ryan Gattis; design by Alex Merto (MCD / August 2017)

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf / October 2017)

Also designed by Kimberly Glyder:

Amanda Wakes Up by Alisyn Camerota; design by Kimberly Glyder (Viking / July 2017)

Wait Till You See Me Dance by Deb Olin Unferth; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf / March 2017)

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S J Sindu; design by Kimberly Glyder (Soho Press / June 2017)

Hollow by Owen Egerton; design by Matt Dorfman (Counterpoint / July 2017)

Also designed by Matt Dorfman:

Crossings by Jon Kerstetter; design by Matt Dorfman (Random House / September 2017)

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton; design by Matt Dorfman (Counterpoint / August 2017)

Selection Day by Aravind Adiga; design by Matt Dorfman (Scribner / January 2017)

How Will I Know You? by Jessic Treadway; design by Catherine Casalino; illustration by Henrietta Harris (Grand Central Publishing / August 2017)

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell; design by Yeti Lambregts (Tinder Press / August 2017)

Also designed by Yeti Lambregts:

Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed; design by Yeti Lambregts (Tinder Press / July 2017)

What it Means when a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah; design Yeti Lambregts; illustration: Willian Santiago (Tinder Press / August 2017)

The Idiot by Elif Batuman; design by Suzanne Dean; illustration by Aino-Maija Metsola (Jonathan Cape / June 2017)

Also designed by Suzanne Dean:

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker / May 2017)

Once Upon a Time in the East by Xiaolu Guo; design Suzanne Dean; photograph by Robin Friend (Chatto & Windus / January 2017)

A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee; design by Suzanne Dean (Chatto & Windus / September 2017)

The Idiot by Elif Batuman; design by Oliver Munday (Penguin / March 2017)

Also designed by Oliver Munday:

I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy; design by Oliver Munday (New Directions / July 2017)

To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann; design by Oliver Munday (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2017)

Shark Drunk by Morten Strøksnes; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / June 2017)

Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov compiled and edited by Gennady Barabtarlo; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / December 2017)

Also designed by Chris Ferrante:

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine; design by Chris Ferrante; illustration by Francesco Bongiorni (Princeton University Press / August 2017)

Decolonization: A Short History by Jan C. Jansen & Jürgen Osterhammel; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / February 2017)

Jerusalem Ablaze by Orlando Ortega-Medina; design by La Boca (Cloud Lodge Books / January 2017)

Also designed by La Boca: 

The Lawn Job by Chuck Caruso; design by La Boca (Cloud Lodge Books / July 2017)

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez; design La Boca (Granta / April 2017)

Jerzy by Jerome Charyn; design by Alban Fischer (Bellevue Literary Press / March 2017)

Little Deaths by Emma Flint; design by Justine Anweiler (Picador / January 2017)

Also designed by Justine Anweiler:

Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg; design by Justine Anweiler (Picador / June 2017)

Pages For Her by Sylvia Brownrigg; design by Justine Anweiler (Picador / June 2017)

Lotus by Lijia Zhang; design by Adly Elewa (Henry Holt / January 2017)

Manly Health and Training by Walt Whitman; design by Richard Ljoenes (Regan Arts / February 2017)

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya; design by Amanda Weiss (Princeton University Press / October 2017)

Narcissism for Beginners by Martine McDonagh; design by Tree Abraham (Unbound / March 2017)

Nicotine by Gregor Hens; design by John Gall (Other Press / January 2017)

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul; design by C.S. Richardson (Doubleday Canada / March 2017)

Scott was also responsible for my favourite of the (many) Ninety Eighty-Four redesigns this season. 

The Parcel by Anosh Irani; design by Allison Colpoys (Scribe / September 2017)

Also designed by Allison Colpoys:

Things That Helped by Jessica Friedman; design by Allison Colpoys (Scribe / April 2017)

What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz; design Allison Colpoys (Scribe / November 2017)

The Quantum Astrologers Handbook by Michael Brooks; design by Allison Colpoys (Scribe / October 2017)

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / May 2017)

Also designed by Rachel Willey:

New People by Danzy Senna; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / August 2017)

X by Chuck Klosterman; design by Rachel Willey (Blue Rider Press / May 2017)

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / March 2017)

A Separation by Katie Kitamura; design by Jaya Miceli (Riverhead / February 2017)

Also designed by Jaya Miceli:

Next Year for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson; design by Jaya Miceli; cover art by Jarek Puczel (Scribner / March 2017)

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / August 2017)

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent; design by Jaya Miceli (Riverhead / August 2017)

Sex & Rage by Eve Babitz; design by Kelly Winton (Counterpoint / July 2017)

Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone; design by Jo Walker (Granta / May 2017)

Also designed by Jo Walker:

Bolshoi Confidential by Simon Morrison; design by Jo Walker (Fourth Estate / August 2017)

The Ice by Laline Paull; design by Jo Walker (Fourth Estate / April 2017)

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent; design Jo Walker

Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor; design by Tyler Comrie (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / March 2017)

Also designed by Tyler Comrie:

The River at Night by Erica Ferencik; design by Tyler Comrie (Scout Press / January 2017)

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan; design by Tyler Comrie (Scribner / June 2017)

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Scribner / March 2017)

Also designed by Lauren Peters-Collaer:

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman; design Lauren Peters-Collaer (Simon & Schuster / October 2017)

Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Simon & Schuster / Janurary 2017)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan; design by Erik Carter (New Directions / August 2017)

Also designed by Erik Carter:

The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar; design by Erik Carter (New Directions / April 2017)

Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel; design by Erik Carter (New Directions /March 2017)

Is That Kafka? by Reiner Stach; design by Erik Carter (New Directions / February 2017)

Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson; design by James Paul Jones (Granta / January 2017)

Also designed by James Paul Jones: 

Democracy and Its Crisis by A.C. Grayling design James Paul Jones (Oneworld / September 2017)

Kompromat by Stanley Johnson; design by James Paul Jones (Oneworld / July 2017)

We Will Not Be Silenced edited by William I. Robinson & Maryam S. Griffin; design by James Paul Jones (Pluto Press / January 2017)

We All Love the Beautiful Girls by Joanne Proulx; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Viking / August 2017)

Also designed by Jennifer Griffiths:

The Dead Husband Project by Sarah Meehan Sirk; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Anchor Canada / August 2017)

The Change Room by Karen Connelly; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Random House Canada / April 2017)

Lost in September by Kathleen Winter; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Knopf Canada / September 2017)

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / June 2017)

Also designed by Greg Heinimann:

Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down by Allan Jones; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / August 2017)

Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / May 2017)

Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / August 2017)

Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder; design by Sara Wood (Ecco / August 2017)

Also designed by Sara Wood:

Twelve Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson; design Sara Wood (Ecco / September 2017)

A Wife of Noble Character by Yvonne Georgina Puig; design by Sara Wood (St. Martin’s Griffin / August 2017)

No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Watts; design Sara Wood; embroidery by Stephanie Kelly Clark (Ecco / April 2017)

Would Everybody Please Stop? by Jenny Allen; design by Na Kim (Sarah Crichton Books / June 2017)

Also designed by Na Kim:

Knots by Gunnhild Øyehaug; design Na Kim (FSG / July 2017)

Isadora by Amelia Gray; design by Na Kim (FSG / May 2017)

The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / November 2017)

The cover of Sahre’s “graphic memoir” Two Dimensional Man is also great. 

Writing Not Writing by Tom Fisher; design by  Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (University of Iowa Press / July 2017)(University of Iowa Press / July 2017)

Also designed by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein:

Evolving Images edited by Nora Glickman &‎ Ariana Huberman; design by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (University of Texas Press / December 2017)

Limits of Whiteness by Neda Maghbouleh; design by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Standford University Press / September 2017)

Humankind by Timothy Morton; design by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Verso / August 2017)

The Zoo of the New edited by Nick Laird & Don Paterson; design by Richard Green (Particular Books / March 2017)