Hey. I hope you’re keeping safe and well. I’m posting this late on the last day of the month, but hopefully it was worth waiting for.
I will let you get to the covers posthaste, but before I go, today (September 30th) is also Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, so I would like take a moment to acknowledge and remember the survivors of residential schools, their families and the kids who didn’t come home. <3
All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh; design by Jared Bartman (Knopf / September 2025)
At Last by Marisa Silver; design by Luísa Dias (Simon & Schuster / September 2025)
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill; design and illustration by Elizabeth Story (Tachyon Books / September 2025)
Awake by Jen Hatmaker; design by Elizabeth Yaffe (Avid Reader Press / September 2025)
Big Time by Jordan Prosser; design by Luke Bird (Dead Ink Books / September 2025)
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva; design by Luísa Dias (Astra House / September 2025)
I love that we have two grungy / pulpy covers from Luísa Dias this month…
Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell; design by Ben Prior (Abacus / August 2025)
The Collected Stories by Cixin Liu; design by Jessie Price (Head of Zeus / September 2025)
This is holographic foil just in case it’s not obvious from the above (and if someone at Head of Zeus / Bloomsbury is reading and wants to fire me a better cover image that would be great!)
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano; design by Madeline Partner (Vintage / September 2025)
With this and the cover of The Dilemmas of Working Women designed by Sarah Kellogg (featured last month), we may have a new sub-genre of ‘well dressed and distressed’. Are there other examples?
Possibly a different kind of distress, the UK edition of Discontent, published last month by Harvill Secker, was designed by Kris Potter using a photograph by Laurent Tixador.
Dogs by C. Mallon; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / August 2025)
Facing Infinity by Jonas Enander; design by Anna Morrison (Atlantic Books / September 2025)
For the Sun After Long Nights by Fatemeh Jamalpour & Nilo Tabrizy; design by Linda Huang; illustration by Laura Acquaviva (Pantheon / September 2025)
Great Disasters by Grady Chambers; design by Beth Steidle (Tin House / September 2025)
In the Green Heart by Richard Lloyd Parry; design by Julia Connolly; photograph by Albarran Cabrera (Jonathan Cape / August 2025)
The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Erewhon Books / September 2025)
The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley; design by Keith Hayes; art by Jose David Morales (Flatiron Books / September 2025)
The Last Jewish Joke by Michel Wieviorka; design by David Drummond (Polity Press / September 2025)
Letters in Exile by Claude McKay; design by Jenny Volvovski (Yale University Press / September 2025)
Moderation by Elaine Castillo; design by Lynn Buckley (Viking / August 2025)
The Shadow of the Mammoth by Fabio Morábito; design by Jared Bartman (Other Press / September 2025)
Is the “blob cut-out” a thing? I kind of thought it was but then I couldn’t think of any other examples except maybe this Paul Sahre / Erik Carter cover for The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson from a few years ago, which is more of a collage really. Are they any other examples?
Swallows by Natsuo Kirino; design by Tyler Comrie (Knopf / September 2025)
The UK cover of Swallows published by Canongate last month was designed by Jack Smyth.
They All Came To Barneys by Gene Pressman; design by Colin Webber (Viking / September 2025)
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead Books / September 2025)
Lauren also designed the cover for No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, which was on my notable list back in 2021.
