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Published July 7, 2015

Book Covers of Note July 2015

It’s finally summer, and because July is traditionally something of a quiet month in publishing, I’m taking the opportunity to catch up on a few covers that I missed earlier in the year…

Act of God by Jill Ciment; design by Janet Hansen (Pantheon / March 2015 )

All My Puny Sorrows design Sunra Thompson

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews; design and illustration by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / June 2015)

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Armada by Ernest Cline; design by Will Staehle (Crown / July 2015)

Asylum design Spencer Kimble
The Asylum by Simon Doonan; design by Spencer Kimble (Blue Rider Press / February 2015 )

Book of Numbers design Suzanne Dean cover illustration Carnovsky

Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen; design by design Suzanne Dean; illustration Carnovsky (Harvill Secker / June 2015)

Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen; design by Oliver Munday (Random House / June 2015)

Chasing Rumer illustration by Andrew Holder

Chasing Rumor by Cameron Chambers; design by Haruna Madono; illustration by Andrew Holder (Patagonia / June 2015)

Earth design by Alex Merto
Earth by Hubert Krivine; design by Alex Merto (Verso Books / April 2015)

Economics After Capitalism design David Gee

Economics After Capitalism by Derek Wall; design by David A. Gee (Pluto Press / July 2015)

Egg by Blanche Vaughan; design by Clare Skeats (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson / March 2015)

Here You Are by Jared Joseph & Sara Peck; design by Alban Fischer (Horse Less Press / March 2015)

Future Days by David Stubbs; design by Adly Elewa (Melville House / July 2015)

Lord Fear by Lucas Mann; design by Kelly Blair (Pantheon / May 2015)

Modern Romance design by Jay Shaw photograph by ruvan wijesooriya
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari; design by Jay Shaw; photograph by Ruvan Wijesooriya (Penguin / June 2015)

Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell; design by Lucy Kim (Henry Holt / July 2015)

The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas; design by Gray318 (Canongate / July 2015)

Stammered Songbook by Erwin Mortier; design by Clare Skeats (Pushkin Press / March 2015)

Thrown by Kerry Howley; design by Gray318 (Hamish Hamilton / May 2015)

Trust Me design Jamie Keenan
Trust Me, PR is Dead by Robert Phillips; design by Jamie Keenan (Unbound / June 2015)

Unabrow by Una Lamarche; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / March 2015)

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Whisky Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer; design by Richard Bravery (Penguin / June 2015)

World on a Plate by Mina Holland; design by Nick Misani (Penguin / May 2015)

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Published June 3, 2015

Book Covers of Note June 2015

I don’t know where last month went, but somehow it’s June already and it’s time for another selection of recent book covers:

General Theory of Oblivion design by Julia Connolly
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa; design by Julia Connolly (Harvill Secker / June 2015)

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The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester; design by Melissa Four (Simon & Schuster / January 2015)

how music got free design James Paul Jones
How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt; design by James Paul Jones (The Bodley Head / June 2015)

in the beginning illustration Robert Frank Hunter
In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomás González; cover illustration by Robert Frank Hunter (Pushkin / May 2015)

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Intimacy Idiot by Isaac Oliver; design by Spencer Kimble (Scribner / June 2015)

lesser beasts design by Nicole Caputo
Lesser Beasts by Mark Essig; design by Nicole Caputo (Basic Books / May 2015)

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Living in the Sound of the Wind by Jason Wilson; design by Leo Nickolls (Constable / June 2015)

London Overground design by Richard Bravery
London Overground by Iain Sinclair; design by Richard Bravery (Hamish Hamilton / June 2015)

lucky alan design ben wiseman
Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem; design by Ben Wiseman (Doubleday / February 2015)

manhattan mayhem design by Timothy ODonnell
Manhattan Mayhem edited by Mary Higgins Clark; design by Timothy O’Donnell (Quirk Books / June 2015)

motorcycles ive loved design by rachel willey
Motorcycles I’ve Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / April 2015)

muse design by gabriele wilson
Muse by Jonathan Galassi; design by Gabriele Wilson (Knopf / June 2015)

professor in the cage design by matt dorfman
The Professor in the Cage by Jonathan Gottschall; design by Matt Dorfman (Penguin / April 2015)

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Resistance is Futile by Jenny Colgan; design by Hannah Wood; illustration by Pietari Posti (Orbit / May 2015)

rise design by greg heinimann
Rise by Karen Campbell; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / March 2015)

thank you goodnight design Kimberly Glyder
Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz; design by Kimberly Glyder (Simon & Schuster / June 2015)

tongues of men or angels design by Jamie Keenan
The Tongues of Men or Angels by Jonathan Trigel; design by Jamie Keenan (Little Brown / May 2015)

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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / May 2015)

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When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen; design by Kelly Blair (Knopf / February 2015)

world does not exist design david gee
Why the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel; design by David Gee (Polity / June 2015)

The White Company design James Paul Jones
The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle; design by James Paul Jones (Vintage / June 2015)

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The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora; art and design by Thomas Doyle (Grove Press /May 2015)

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Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / June 2015)

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Published May 5, 2015

Book Covers of Note May 2015

This month’s post is very heavy on illustrated and hand-lettered covers for some reason, but it’s all the prettier for it…

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All This Has Nothing To Do With Me by Monica Sabolo; design by Justine Anweiler; illustration by Daphne van den Heuvel (Picador / April 2015)

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At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón; design by Jonathan Pelham (Fourth Estate / May 2015)

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B & Me by J. C. Hallman; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster / March 2015)

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The Bees by Laline Paull; design by Sara Wood (Ecco / May 2015)

The jacket for the US hardcover of The Bees, designed by Steve Attardo, was a book cover of note in May 2014.

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Black Snow by Paul Lynch; design by Keith Hayes (Little, Brown & Co. / May 2015)

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Boo by Neil Smith; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Vintage / May 2015)

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Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert design by Maria Elias; illustration by Christopher Silas Neal (Disney-Hyperion / May 2015)

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Eden West by Pete Hautman; design by Matt Roeser (Candlewick / April 2015)

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Empire of the Senses by Alexis Landau; design by Janet Hansen (Pantheon / March 2015)

herzog design by Lynn Buckley
Herzog by Saul Bellow; design by Lynn Buckley (Penguin / May 2015)

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How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro; design by Jason Alejandro (Princeton University Press / April 2015)

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KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann; design by Alex Merto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / April 2015)

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Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North; design by Spencer Kimble (Blue Rider Press / May 2015)

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Lifted by the Great Nothing by Karim Dimechkie; design by Katya Mezhibovskaya; illustration by Christopher Silas Neal (Bloomsbury / May 2015)

Further proof, were it needed, that Christopher would do a great covers for Harper Lee.

Mislaid design by Allison Saltzman
Mislaid by Nell Zink; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / May 2015)

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My Documents by Alejandro Zambra; design & illustration Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / April 2015)

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Nightmares and Geezenstacks by Fredric Brown; design by M. S. Corley (Valancourt Books / April 2015)

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Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / April 2015)

ohey design by Alban Fischer
Ohey! by Darby Larson; design by Alban Fischer (CCM / May 2015)

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Schlump by Hans Herbert Grim; design by Suzanne Dean; illustration by Clare Curtis (Vintage / May 2015)

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty; design by Peter Adlington (Canongate / April 2015)

The US edition, designed by David High, was a book cover of note in September 2014.

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The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow; cover art by Tom Gauld (Allen Lane / May 2015)

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Visiting Hours by Amy Butcher; design by Spencer Kimble (Blue Rider Press / April 2015)

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Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames; design by Jamie Keenan (Pushkin Press / May 2015)

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Published April 6, 2015

Book Covers of Note April 2015

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…

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American Warlord by Johnny Dwyer; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / April 2015)

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Boring Girls by Sara Taylor; design by David A. Gee (ECW / April 2015)

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City Beasts by Mark Kurlansky; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)

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Dismantling by Brian DeLeeuw; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / April 2015)

every-living-one-design-alban-fischer
Every Living One by Nathan Haukes; design by Alban Fischer (Horse Less Press / March 2015)

galaxy-man-design-chas-brock
The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord; design by Charles Brock (Del Rey / January 2015)

game-of-love-and-death-artwork-cs-neal-design-nina-goffi
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-design-julia-connolly-petra-borner
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; design by Julia Connolly; illustration Petra Börner (Vintage / April 2015)

how-to-run-a-government-design-barnbrook
How to Run a Government by Michael Barber; design by Barnbrook (Allen Lane / March 2015)

love-sex-and-other-foreign-policy-goals-design
Love and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong; design by Matt Broughton (Jonathan Cape / April 2015)

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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins; design by Thomas Ng; photograph Peter Kupfer (Spiegel & Grau / March 2015)

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The Musical Brain by César Aira; design by Rodrigo Corral (New Directions / March 2015)

odd-man-out-design-ms-corley
Odd Man Out by F. L. Green; design by M. S. Corley (Valancourt Books / March 2015)

on-the-way-design-alban-fischer
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)

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Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville; design by Sian Wilson (Abacus / April 2015)

queen-of-bright-shiny-things-design-anna-booth
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)

road-to-character-design-jim-stoddart
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)

splendid-things-we-planned-design-greg-mollica
The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey; design by Greg Mollica; cover art by Matthew Cusick (W. W. Norton / February 2015)

strange-case-of-rachel-k-design-paul-sahre
The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / March 2015)

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Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell; design by David A. Gee; photograph by Mani (Verso / March 2015)

Tout-peut-changer-design-Nouvelle-Administration
Tout Peut Changer by Naomi Klein; design by Nouvelle Administration (Lux Éditeur / March 2015)

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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)

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Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Sendker; design by Gray318 (Atria / April 2015)

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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)

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Worthy by Denice Turner; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Nevada Press / April 2015)

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Published March 3, 2015

Book Covers of Note March 2015

Here is March’s selection of new and noteworthy covers. It’s a little bit of the Merto and Mendelsund show I’ll admit, but I assure you there really are some brilliant covers by other designers this month too!

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The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah; design by Leo Nickolls (Doubleday / March 2015)

The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson; design by Kimberly Glyder (~~Harper / March 2013~~ killed)

discontent-and-its-civilizations
Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert; design by Patti Ratchford; illustration by Eric Nyquist (Bloomsbury / February 2015)

I also loved Eric’s ‘H is for Hawk’ illustration in the February 22nd edition of The New York Times Book Review.

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The Four Books by Yan Lianke; design by Matt Broughton (Chatto & Windus / March 2015)

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Get in Trouble by Kelly Link; design by Alex Merto (Random House / February 2015)

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The Highway of Despair by Robyn Marasco; design by Jennifer Heuer (Columbia University Press / March 2015)

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Holy Cow by David Duchovny; design by Rodrigo Corral; illustration and lettering by Natalya Balnova (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2015)

i-am-sorry
I Am Sorry to Think I Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell; design by Peter Mendelsund; hand lettering by Janet Hansen; photography by George Baier IV (Knopf / March 2015)

knife
The Knife by Ross Ritchell; design by Alex Merto (Blue Rider Press / February 2015)

(Camouflage book covers are the New Thing!)

last-word
The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / March 2015)

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A Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson; design by Marian Bantjes (Graywolf / February 2015)

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The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / March 2015)

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Making Nice by Matt Sumell; design by Gray318 (Henry Holt & Co. / February 2015)

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One Day in the Life of the English Language by Frank L. Cioffi; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / March 2015)

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The Poser by Jacob Rubin; design by Will Staehle (Viking / March 2015)

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Satin Island by Tom McCarthy; design by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf / February 2015)

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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson; design by Matt Dorfman (Riverhead / March 2015)

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The Swan Book by Alexis Wright; design by Ceara Elliot (Corsair / March 2015)

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The Unloved by Deborah Levy; design by Katya Mezhibovskaya; photograph by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison (Bloomsbury / March 2015)

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The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma; design by Connie Gabbert (Algonquin Books / March 2015)

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We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach; Lucy Ruth Cummins; photographer Meredith Jenks (Simon & Schuster / March 2015)

The version of this cover which caught my eye was actually wordless — and I believe that was the designer’s original intention — so I’m a wee bit disappointed that the publisher didn’t quite have the courage to follow through on that.

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Worst Person Ever by Douglas Coupland; design by Alex Merto (Plume / March 2015)

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Published February 2, 2015

Book Covers of Note February 2015

Here is this month’s selection of new book covers that have caught my eye…

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Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan; design by Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics / February 2015)

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Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis; design by Nathan Burton (Daunt Books / February 2015)

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper; design by Gray318 (Penguin / January 2015)

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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma; design by Gray318 (Pushkin Press / February 2015)

Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / February 2015)

i-am-radar
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen; design by Will Staehle (Penguin Press / February 2015)

ismael-and-his-sisters
Ismael and His Sisters by Louise Stern; design by Dan Mogford (Granta / February 2015)

The Italians by John Hooper; design by Nicholas Misani (Viking / January 2015)

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Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / February 2015)

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Munich Airport by Greg Baxter; design by Anne Twomey (Twelve Books / January 2015)

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The Room by Jonas Karlsson; design by Christopher Brand; photograph by George Baier IV (Hogarth / February 2015)

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Shooting Stars by Stefan Zweig; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / February 2015)

Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Vintage / February 2015)

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The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / February 2015)

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Published January 12, 2015

Books Covers of Note January 2015

January’s selections include some of this month’s new releases plus a few stragglers from 2014 that were undeservedly overlooked last year:

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Against the Country by Ben Metcalf; design and illustration by Leanne Shapton (Random House / January 2015)

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A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / January 2015)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; design by Scot Bendall & Richard Carey / La Boca (Vintage / November 2014)

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Fifty Mice by Daniel Pyne; design by Alex Merto (Blue Rider Press / December 2014)

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The First Bad Man by Miranda July; design by Mike Mills (Scribner / January 2015)

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GB84 by David Peace; design by Christopher King (Melville House / November 2014)

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Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce; design by Grace Han; cover art by Kate Bergin (Riverhead / January 2015)

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The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred Venturini; design by Henry Sene Yee (Picador / November 2014)

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I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel by David Shields and Caleb Powell; design by Chip Kidd (Knopf / January 2015)

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Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet; design by Chris Welch Design (W. W. Norton / November 2014)

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Trouble in Paradise By Slavoj Žižek; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / November 2014)

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm; design by Paul Buckley (Viking / January 2015)

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The Veiled Sun by Paul Schaffer; design by David Drummond (Véhicule Press / January 2015)

Weathering by Lucy Wood; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / January 2015)

X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon; design by Matt Roeser (Candlewick Press / January 2015)

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Published November 3, 2014

Book Covers of Note November 2014

This is the last of the monthly cover round-ups for 2014, and I have a lot to cram in before I start on my big end of year list, so it’s a bit of corker (if I do say so myself) with lots of gold foil and other fancy finishes:

Amnesia
Amnesia by Peter Carey; design by Alex Kirby (Faber & Faber / October 2014)

(The dust jacket is actually acetate)

The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis; illustration by Matt Taylor; type design and art direction by Richard Bravery (Viking / August 2014)

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The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya; design by Devin Washburn (FSG / December 2014)

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Convulsing Bodies by Mark D. Jordan; design by Anne Jordan (Stanford University Press / October 2014)

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Critical Journeys by Robert Schroeder; design Jana Vukovic (Library Juice Press / September 2014)

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Dear Reader by Paul Fournel; illustration by Jean Jullien (Pushkin Press / November 2014)

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The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings; design by Devin Washburn (Liveright / October 2014)

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Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein; design Christopher Silas Neal (Crown / September 2014)

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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick; design by Gray318 (Little Brown & Co / July 2014)

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Girl Defective by Simmone Howell; design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover; illustration Jeffrey Everett (Atheneum / September 2014)

(I also really like Sandy Cull’s design for the Australian edition published by Pan Macmillan in 2013)

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The Hoarders by Scott Herring; design by David Drummond (University of Chicago Press / November 2014)

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In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / September 2014)

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Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter; design by Scott Richardson (Doubleday Canada / November 2014)

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It’s Not Me It’s You by Mhairi McFarlane; design by Heike Schüssler; illustration by Gianmarco Magnani / Silence Television (HarperCollins / November 2014)

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Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart; design by Rodrigo Corral Design (Random House / October 2014)

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Smoke Proofs by Andrew Steeves; design by Andrew Steeves (Gaspereau Press / September 2014)

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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin / November 2014)

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The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen; design by Nathan Burton (Pushkin Press / September 2014)

(The hardcover edition, designed by David Pearson, is also amazing)

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Sailing the Forest by Robin Robertson; design by Neil Lang (Picador / September 2014)

(The skull is gold foil on the finished book)

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The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker; design by Louise Fili; illustration by R. O. Blechman (Viking / September 2014)

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The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker; design by Jim Stoddart & Isabelle de Cat; photograph by Kayla Varley (Penguin / September 2014)

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Tales of the Marvellous and the Strange translated by Malcolm C. Lyons; design by ~~Coralie Bickford-Smith~~ Isabelle de Cat; illustration by Nina Chakrabarti (Penguin / November 2014)

(Just look at all that gold!)

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Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter; design by Charlotte Strick; photograph by Natalie Dirks (FSG / November 2014)

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What I Want to Tell You Goes Like This by Matt Rader; design by Ben Didier / Pretty/Ugly Design (Nightwood Editions / October 2014 )

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You by Caroline Kepnes; design by Natalie Sousa (Atria / September 2014)

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Published October 2, 2014

Book Covers of Note October 2014

It’s October and the fall book season is in full swing. It’s kind of bonkers in the trade from now until Christmas, so this is the second to last (if not the actual last) cover round-up for 2014. I think I can probably squeeze in one more next month, but then we will be well into ‘covers of the year’ territory so we’ll have to see. I also have more posts in the Beasts! series (and goodness know what else) to fit in somehow! While I figure that out, however, here is this month’s collection of notable book covers…

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10:04 by Ben Lerner; design by Scott Richardson (McClelland & Stewart / September 2014)

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All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews; design by Helen Crawford-White / Studio Helen (Faber & Faber / June 2014)

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber; art direction and design Rafi Romaya; illustration Yehrin Tong (Canongate / October 2014)

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The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell; design by Leo Nickolls (Constable / October 2014 )

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Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes; design by Keith Hayes (Mulholland Books / September 2014)

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott; design by Henry Sene Yee; illustration by Bill Mudron (Picador / October 2014)

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Flings by Justin Taylor; design by Oliver Munday (Harper / August 2014)

I-Am-China
I Am China by Xiaolu Guo; design Emily Mahon; photograph Masha Sardari (Nan A. Talese / September 2014)

fields-of-blood
Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / October 2014)

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The Intervals of Cinema by Jacques Rancière; design by Jessica Svendsen (Verso / October 2014)

Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Yang Kim and Tyler Comrie (FSG / October 2014)

Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / September 2014)

Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Yang Kim and Tyler Comrie (FSG / October 2014)
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Yang Kim and Tyler Comrie (FSG / October 2014)

Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / September 2014)
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / September 2014)

A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar; design by Ben Summers (Hodder / October 2014)

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Mr. Gwyn by Alessandro Baricco; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / July 2014)

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Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts; design by Isabelle De Cat (Penguin / October 2014)

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The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft edited by Leslie S. Klinger; design by gray318 (W. W. Norton / October 2014)

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Notre Duplex by Éléonore Létourneau; design by David Drummond (Éditions XYZ / August 2014)

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Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham; design by CHIPS (Random House / September 2014)

Playing for the Commandant by Suzy Zail; design by Matt Roeser (Candlewick / October 2014)

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Radio Benjamin edited by Lecia Rosenthal; design by Isaac Tobin (Verso / October 2014)

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Specter of Capital by Joseph Vogl; design by Anne Jordan (Stamford University Press / October 2014)

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The White Van by Patrick Hoffman; design by Walter Green (Grove Atlantic / September 2014)

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Published September 3, 2014

Book Covers of Note September 2014

It’s hard to believe it is already September, but here we are… time for another round of book covers!

If you’re new to this feature, each month I collect together new and recent covers that have caught my eye in the previous few weeks. Although the focus is on books released in the current month, the posts also include covers I’ve missed earlier in the year. You can find the previous month’s posts here.

Thanks (as always) to my local bookstores — Type Books on Queen West, Book City on the Danforth, and Indigo Bay & Bloor — for fighting the good fight (and their wonderful displays!).

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Abbott Miller: Design and Content; design by Pentagram (Princeton Architectural Press / September 2014)

Arvida by Samuel Archibald; design by Catherine D’Amours / Pointbarre (Le Quartanier / August 2014)

(this is an obvious miss from last month’s post about maps. Sorry Catherine!)

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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel; design by Rodrigo Corral Design; photograph Demurez/Glasshouse (Henry Holt / September 2014)

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The City Under the Skin by Geoff Nicholson; design by Oliver Munday; photograph by George Baier IV (FSG / June 2014)

(Another one that should have been in the maps post. And yes, that really is someone’s back apparently)

The Establishment by Owen Jones; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / September 2014)

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Forensic Songs by Mike McCormack; design by Jason Booher (SOHO / July 2014)

God Telling a Joke by David Margoshes; design by David Drummond (Oolichan Books / May 2014)

Hack Attack by Nick Davies; design by David Drummond (Faber & Faber / August 2014)

The Histories by Herodotus; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin Classics / September 2014)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; design by JP King (Penguin / August 2014)

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Lippy by Bush Moukarzel; design by Jason Booher (Oberon Books / August 2014)

The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart with Susan Mustafa; design by Jarrod Taylor (HarperCollins / June 2014)

(I’m not endorsing the content of this book at all, but the red acetate cover does need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated)

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty; design by David High / High Design (W. W. Norton / September 2014)

The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland; design by Keith Hayes (Algonquin Books / May 2014)

Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle; design by Timothy Goodman (FSG / September 2014)

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Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyers; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / September 2014)

You by Zoran Drvenkar; design by Kelly Blair (Knopf / August 2014)

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Published August 5, 2014

Book Covers of Note August 2014

Here is this month’s selection of recently noted covers:

2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino; design by Christopher Brand (Crown August 2014)

The Bend of the World by Jacob Bacharach; design by Jamie Keenan (W. W. Norton May 2014)

Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor; design by Richard Ljoenes (Harper July 2014)

Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir; design by Nathan Burton (Pushkin Press June 2014)

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker August 2014)

(See the U.S. Cover here)

The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe; design by Abby Weintraub (Knopf July 2014)

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald; cover art by Christopher Wormell (Jonathan Cape July 2014)

Happy are the Happy by Yesmina Reza; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker July 2014)

The Liar’s Wife by Mary Gordon; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon August 2014)

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury August 2014)

Preparing the Ghost by Gavin Frank; design by Ben Wiseman (W. W. Norton August 2014)

The Reef by Iain McCalman; design by Oliver Munday (Scientific American May 2014)

The Removers by Andrew Meredith; design by Evan Gaffney (Scribner July 2014)

Spin by Clive Veroni; design by WAX (House of Anansi August 2014)

Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury July 2014)

We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster June 2014)

What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage August 2014)

Your Face in Mine by Jess Row; design by Oliver Munday (Riverhead August 2014)

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Published July 9, 2014

Book Covers of Note July 2014

As well posting great cover designs for books released in July, I’ve taken this month’s round-up as an opportunity to catch up on a few I missed earlier this year. Enjoy!

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Adam by Ariel Schrag; design by Christopher Moisan (Mariner June 2014)

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American Blonde by Jennifer Niven; design by Sara Wood (Plume July 2014)

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The Arsonist by Sue Miller; design by Gabriele Wilson (Knopf June 2014)

California by Edan Lepucki; design Julianna Lee (Little Brown & Co. July 2014)

Cartwheel by Jennifer Dubois; design Eileen Carey / photograph by Kniel Synnatzschke (Random House May 2014)

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Cubed by Nikil Saval; design by Oliver Munday (Doubleday April 2014)

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Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson; design by Allison Saltzman, cover art Bryan Nash Gill (Ecco June 2014)

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Friendship by Emily Gould; design by Jennifer Carrow (FSG July 2014)

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Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygiel; design by Christopher King (Melville House May 2014)

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How To Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley; design by Andrew Smith (Atria February 2014)

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A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun; design by Kristen Haff (Penguin February 2014)

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The Martian by Andy Weir; design by Eric White (Crown February 2014)

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Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey; design by Charlotte Strick; illustration by Patrick Leger (FSG Originals, July 2014)

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No Country by Kalyan Ray; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster June 2014)

My Fellow Skin

Shutterspeed by Erwin Mortier; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / 2014)

Marcel by Erwin Mortier; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / 2014)

My Fellow Skin / Shutterspeed / Marcel by Erwin Mortier; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press July 2014)

Night Film by Marisha Pessl; design by Shasti O’Leary Soudant (Random House July 2014)

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Out of Time by Lynne Segal; design by David A. Gee (Verso July 2014)

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Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya; design by Helen Yentus / Photograph by Emine Ziyatdinova (Riverhead July 2014)

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The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones; design by Keith Hayes (Mulholland Books July 2014)

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean; design by Will Staehle (Little, Brown & Co. May 2014)

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