Never mind that still feels like some crazy never-ending winter in Toronto, it’s (allegedly) April so here are a few new and recent covers that have caught my eye in the past month…
American Warlord by Johnny Dwyer; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / April 2015)
Boring Girls by Sara Taylor; design by David A. Gee (ECW / April 2015)
City Beasts by Mark Kurlansky; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)
Dismantling by Brian DeLeeuw; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / April 2015)
Every Living One by Nathan Haukes; design by Alban Fischer (Horse Less Press / March 2015)
The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord; design by Charles Brock (Del Rey / January 2015)
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough; design by Nina Goffi; illustration by Christopher Silas Neal (Scholastic / April 2015)
(You know who could do an amazing Harper Lee cover? Christopher Silas Neal, that’s who!)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum; design by Gabrielle Bordwin (Random House / March 2015)
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; design by Julia Connolly; illustration Petra Börner (Vintage / April 2015)
How to Run a Government by Michael Barber; design by Barnbrook (Allen Lane / March 2015)
Love and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong; design by Matt Broughton (Jonathan Cape / April 2015)
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins; design by Thomas Ng; photograph Peter Kupfer (Spiegel & Grau / March 2015)
The Musical Brain by César Aira; design by Rodrigo Corral (New Directions / March 2015)
Odd Man Out by F. L. Green; design by M. S. Corley (Valancourt Books / March 2015)
On the Way by Cyn Vargas; design by Alban Fischer (Curbside Splendor / April 2015)
(I also like Alban Fischer’s cover for Does Not Love by James Tadd Adcox, published by Curbside Splendor in 2014, a lot)
Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville; design by Sian Wilson (Abacus / April 2015)
The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre; design by Anna Booth; photography by Jon Barkat and Gary Spector (Feiwel & Friends / April 2015)
The Road to Character by David Brooks; design by Jim Stoddart (Allen Lane / April 2015)
The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt; design by Steve Panton; series design Peter Dyer (Serpent’s Tail / February 2015)
The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey; design by Greg Mollica; cover art by Matthew Cusick (W. W. Norton / February 2015)
The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / March 2015)
Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell; design by David A. Gee; photograph by Mani (Verso / March 2015)
Tout Peut Changer by Naomi Klein; design by Nouvelle Administration (Lux Éditeur / March 2015)
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / April 2015)
(Another great 2014 cover I missed — but saw in a bookstore recently — is Janet’s design for Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuruddin Farah)
Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Sendker; design by Gray318 (Atria / April 2015)
The Woman Who Read Too Much by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; design by Anne Jordan (Stanford University Press / April 2015)
(I like this unused unused comp very much too)
Worthy by Denice Turner; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Nevada Press / April 2015)
