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Book Covers of Note, February 2025
Published February 25, 2025

Book Covers of Note, February 2025

Hey, I hope you’re safe and well. This month’s post is a big one so I’m pretty much going to let you get on with it, but before I do, I just wanted to mention that I’ve included a gallery of all this month’s covers as the bottom of the post so you can click through them all. This is in response to a reader email about the size of the covers on screen. I think the gallery looks nice, but I am worried that it’s going to play absolute havoc with the RSS / email so apologies in advance if that’s case. Anyway, enjoy this month’s covers, and let me know what you think.

Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez; design by Arsh Raziuddin (Crown / February 2025)

Atrocity by Bruce Robbins; design by David Drummond (Stanford University Press / February 2025)

Ballerina by Patrick Modiano; design by Monograph (Yale University Press / January 2025)

Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield; design by Joanne O’Neill (W. W. Norton / February 2025)

Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst; design by Jack Smyth; photograph by Kirsten McKee (Faber & Faber / February 2025)

Creep by Emma van Straaten; design by Joanne O’Neill (Harper Perennial / February 2025)

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley; design by Chris Allen (Crown / February 2025)

Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva; design by Rodrigo Corral; illustration by Sophy Hollington (Astra House / February 2025)

Fake Muse by Max Besora; design by Alban Fischer (Open Letter / February 2025)

I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall; design by Luke Bird (Influx Press / February 2025)

This is the UK paperback cover. The cover of the US hardcover published by Soft Skull in February last year and designed by Jack Smyth was in March 2024’s round-up.

Immemorial by Lauren Markham; design by Anna Morrison (Transit / February 2025)

In Defence of Barbarism by Louisa Yousfi; design by Chantal Jahchan (Verso / January 2025)

Mazeltov by Eli Zuzovsky; design by Emily Mahar; art by Daniel El Dibujo (Henry Holt / February 2025)

Money To Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof; design by Matt Broughton; art Katrien de Blauwer (Vintage / February 2025)

The type is apparently the Lubalin-inspired Herbus designed by Eliott Grunewald.

Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch; design Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / February 2025)

Saint of the Narrow Street by William Boyle; design by Luke Bird (Soho Crime / February 2025)

Smother by Rachel Richardson; design by Hana Nakamura (W. W. Norton / February 2025)

The Stain by Rikki Ducornet; design by Daniel Benneworth-Gray (Dalkey Archive Press / February 2025)

A Time Outside This Time by Amitava Kumar; design by Tom Etherington (Vintage / February 2025)

This accompanies the paperback of My Beloved Life, published at the end of last month.

The cover of the hardcover of My Beloved Life was designed by Oliver Munday.

The Vanishing Point by Paul Theroux; design by Chris Bentham (Penguin / February 2025)

The cover of the US edition designed by Pete Garceau was on last month’s list.

The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra; design by Darren Haggar (Penguin Press / February 2025)

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Published October 28, 2022

Book Covers of Note, October 2022

This month’s post includes a few covers that I missed earlier in the year along side the new and recent releases. I’m starting to think about my annual recap so please let me know if you think I’ve overlooked any other particularly notable covers that stood out for you and/or seemed emblematic of wider trends in 2022.

And just a reminder with all the stuff going on with social media that if you’d prefer to get new posts auto-magically emailed to you, you can subscribe here. I have also re-opened comments on new posts after closing them for a few months if you want to politely share your thoughts below.

Africa Risen by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight; design by Christine Foltzer; art by Manzi Jackson (Tordotcom / November 2022)

Alindarka’s Children by Alhierd Bacharevic; design by Pablo Delcan (New Directions / June 2022)

The Come Up by Jonathan Abrams; design by Chris Allen (Crown / October 2022)

Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / August 2022)

Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Blair; design Studio Eight and a Half (Workman / October 2022)

Feral City by Jeremiah Moss; design by Gregg Kulick (W.W. Norton / October 2022)

I’ve noted before that pink is a bit of a thing at the moment, but it’s kind of interesting that it’s being used on ‘grittier’ books…

Ghost Music by An Yu; design Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker / November 2022)

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty; design by Diane Chonette (Tin House / July 2022)

No Land in Sight by Charles Simic; design by John Gall (Knopf / August 2022)”

“Fuuuuuuuuuck….!” is the only way I can describe the mixture of awe and annoyance that I hadn’t thought of it I felt when I saw this cover. So simple and so clever.

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker; design by Tristan Offit (Scribner / September 2022)

This has a very similar ‘obscured face collage’ feel to Tristan Offit’s cover for Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens, which I thought I had posted here earlier in the year but apparently did not (probably because I didn’t — and still don’t! — know who designed the cover of the UK edition (it was designed by Mel Four, photograph by Marta Bevacqua) and I wanted to post them together?).

Pacifique by Sarah L. Taggart; design by Natalie Olsen (Coach House Books / October 2022)

People Person by Candice Carty-Williams; design by Emma A. Van Deun (Scout Press / September 2022)

The Singularities by John Banville; design by John Gall (Knopf / October 2022)

I don’t know if this actually reminds me of another cover, or if it’s just very Gallsian.

But actual blobs (as opposed to ‘book blobs‘) are a thing…

Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; design by Anna Jordan (Deep Vellum / October 2022)

Toad by Katherine Dunn; design by June Park; illustration by Lydia Ortiz (MCD / November 2022)

Waiting for Ted by Marieka Bigg; design by Luke Bird (Cinder House / October 2022)

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer; design by Matt Dorfman (New Directions / June 2022)

The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis; design by Jamie Keenan (Faber & Faber / October 2022)

Mr. Keenan also designed the cover for the Liveright edition of The Waste Land itself a few years ago.

(The US edition of Matthew Hollis’s book, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, also has an interesting cover. If anyone from Norton would like to send me a hi-res image with the design credit, I’ll be happy to add it in!)

Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada; design by Luke Bird (Granta / November 2022)

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