Hey. It’s almost spring. Hang in there!
I took a long-planned week off in March, so this month’s post was somewhat cobbled together around that trip and somehow we’ve ended up with lots of great covers to show for it! I should take vacation more often! There’s some particularly fun typography, some nice illustration, and some of the usual weirdness. Enjoy!
The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit; design by Gray318 (Granta / March 2026)
Business Men as Lovers by Rosemary Tonks; design by Oliver Munday (New Directions / March 2026)
Oliver Munday’s cover for The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks, also published by New Directions, was on my 2022 notable list…
Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky; design by Vivian Lopez Rowe (Ecco / February 2026)
The Fountain by Casey Scieszka; design by Jack Smyth (Harper / March 2026)
Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe; design by Sarah Schulte (Lilliput Press / March 2026)
Gunk by Saba Sams; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / March 2026)
I feel like shiny 3D type might just be a thing this year.
Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska; design by Daniele Roa (Allen Lane / February 2026)
The Hour of the Wolf by Fatima Bhutto; design by Gray318 (Daunt Originals / February 2026)
I had a hell of time trying to remember what this reminded me of, I think it is Jeffery Alan Love‘s illustration for the cover of Wolves by author Simon Ings published by Gollancz way back in 2014.
Coincidentally, the cover of Wolves and other Simon Ings titles from Gollancz were among the ABCD Award winners in 2015, and if you’re interested in reading about this year’s ABCD awards, which took place earlier this month, Vyki Hendy has a write up at SPINE.
I Am Agatha by Nancy Foley; design by Clay Smith (Avid Reader Press / March 2026)
Monster Capital edited by Ra Page & David Sue; design by David Pearson (Comma Press / March 2026)
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / March 2026)
Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas; design by Claire Sullivan (Atria / March 2026)
Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / March 2026)
The cover of the UK edition of Now I Surrender published by Harvill Secker features art by Mexican illustrator Rodolfo Baquier. His art also features on the cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, which was one of my notable covers in 2024.
Pixie by Jill Dawson; design by Carmen R. Balit (Bloomsbury / March 2026)
Recession by Tyler Goodspeed; design by Steve Leard (Basic Books / March 2026)
Steve does love a black, white, and red colour palette for nonfiction!
A Scandal in Konigsberg by Christopher Clark; design by Stephanie Ross (Penguin Press / March 2026)
Seasons of Glass & Iron by Amal El-Mohtar; design by Spencer Fuller / Faceout Studio (Tordotcom Publishing / March 2026)
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Laurel Taylor & Hitomi Yoshio; design by Tiana Dunlop; art by Tetsuya Noda (Knopf / March 2026)
The Spoil by Maile Chapman; design by Vivian Lopez Rowe (Graywolf Press / March 2026)
The Truth of Carcosa by Jacob Rollinson; design by Rodrigo Corral Studio (Union Square & Co. / January 2026)
200 Monas by Jan Saenz; design by June Park (Little Brown & Co. / March 2026)
The lips trend has carried over from 2025!
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz; illustration by Tom Gauld (Manderley Press / March 2026)
I should probably do a post of Tom’s cover illustrations for other people’s books at some point. There must be a few now?
Wretch by Eric Larocca; design by Alicia Tatone (Saga Press / March 2026)
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