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Published May 27, 2015

Today in Micro-Trends: Rotate 90°

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Turning the picture sideways is not exactly new (the brilliant John Gall and Paul Sahre (thanks for the reminder, Jacob!) were experimenting with it years ago), but there has been a spate of commercial covers making use of images rotated through ninety degrees in the past couple of years. It seems like a such peculiar thing to have caught on, and yet here we are:

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

empty-chair-kulick The Empty Chair by Bruce Wagner; design by Gregg Kulick (Blue Rider Press / December 2013)

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The Girl in the Moonlight by Charles Dubow; design by Mumtaz Mustafa; painting by Horacio G. Garcia (William Morrow / May 2015)

Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman; design by Oliver Munday & Jaya Miceli (Scribner / February 2015)

I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers; design by Emily Mahon; photograph by Mike Lambert (Nan A. Talese / June 2015)

Sugar by Deirdre Riordan Hall; design by M. S. Corley (Skyscape / June 2015)

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Waiting for the Apocalypse by Veronica Chater; design by Kimberly Glyder (W. W. Norton / February 2009)

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We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster / August 2014)

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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 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)

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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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Published March 13, 2014

Recent Covers of Note March 2014

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The Arsonist by Sue Miller; design by Greg Heinimann

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Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor; design by Clare Skeats

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Beauty by Frederick Dillen; design by Christopher Lin

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Dreams of the Good Life by Richard Mabey; illustration by Millie Marotta; design Samantha Johnson / Coralie Bickford-Smith

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Les fantômes fument en cachette by Miléna Babin; design by David Drummond

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue; design by Katie Tooke; illustration Emma Farrarons

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Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun; design by Julia Connolly

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The Improbability Principle by David J. Hand; design by Oliver Munday

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; design by Jamie Keenan

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The New New Thing by Michael Lewis; design by Darren Haggar

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On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Louis Althusser; design by Neil Donnelly

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The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed; design by Gabriele Wilson

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The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert; design by Alex Merto

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The Trip to Echo Spring by Oliva Laing; design by Henry Sene Yee

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Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf; design by Allison Colpoys

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Published February 27, 2014

Recent Covers of Note February 2014 Edition

It’s almost March and I’ve just realised that I haven’t posted very many book covers this year. To make up for this lapse, here are ten of my favourite covers from the last few months:

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All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu; design by Isabel Urbina Peña