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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)

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

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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 26, 2014

Beasts! Reptiles and Amphibians

As a Friday follow-up to Tuesday’s post on wild beasts, here’s a look at reptiles and amphibians on book covers:

The Bluesiana Snake Festival by Aubrey Bart; design by Kimberly Glyder (Counterpoint / April 2010)

The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin / October 2008)

The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris; design by Andrew Brozyna (Northwestern University Press / April 2009)

I Haven’t Been Thinking About You At All Lately by Jacob I. Evans; design & illustration by Shannon Freshwater (2009)

The Worst Years of Your Life by ; design by Catherine Casalino (Simon & Schuster / August 2007)

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Alligator by Lisa Moore; design by Bill Douglas (House of Anansi Press / September 2005)

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The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Söderberg; design by Ben Wiseman (Crown / May 2014)

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Ashland by Gil Adamson; design by David Gee (ECW / April 2011)

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Bitter Drink by F. G. Haghenbeck; design by David Drummond (Amazon / July 2012)

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Helen Yentus (Riverhead / March 2014)

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck; design by Kathryn MacNaughton (Penguin / January 2012)

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City of Snakes by Darren Shan; design by Catherine Casalino ( Grand Central / June 2011)

Cold Blood by Richard Kerridge; design by James Paul Jones (Chatto & Windus / May 2014)

Crime
Crime by Irvine Welsh; design by Matt Broughton (Vintage / August 2009)

Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov; design by Nathan Burton (Alma Classics / July 2014)

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The Devil’s Horn by Michael Segell; design by Henry Sene Yee (Picador / August 2006)

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Frog Music by Emma Donoghue; design by Keith Hayes (Little Brown & C0. / April 2014)

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The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov; illustration by Pablo Amargo (Vintage / August 2010)

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The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss; design by Sandy Cull / gogoGingko (University of Queensland Press / October 2011)

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The Heaven of Animals by James Poissant; design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich (Simon & Schuster / March 2014)

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In the Valley of the Kings by Terrence Holt; design by David High (W. W. Norton / September 2009)

Life Ascending by Nick Lane; design by Buchanan-Smith LLC (W. W. Norton / June 2009)

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Mad Hope by Heather Birrell; design by Ingrid Paulson (Coach House Books / April 2012)

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The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith; design by Mark Ecob (Abacus / June 2003)

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No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo; design by Brian Morgan; illustration Jillian Tamaki (Anansi / September 2013)

Paradise Lost by John Milton; design by Emily Mahon; illustration by Silja Goetz (Modern Library / November 2008)

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Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks; design by Jim Tierney (Penguin / June 2014)

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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury / February 2014)

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The Snake Charmer by Jamie James; design by Paul Buckley (Hyperion / July 2008)

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

Swamplandia by Karen Russell; design by Carol Devine Carson (Knopf / February 2011)

Swamplandia by Karen Russell; design by John Gall (Vintage / July 2011)

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Swamplandia by Karen Russell; illustration by Stacey Rozich; art direction James Paul Jones (Vintage / March 2012)

Birds and Bugs are next!

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Published September 23, 2014

Beasts!

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Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! I’m kicking off a new series today on animal book covers. The first post is on ‘beasts’ — mostly ‘wild’ beasts, but one or two more domesticated (and dead) animals may have nosed their way in. Other posts series will look at birds, bugs, reptiles and amphibians, and quite possibly sea creatures and farm animals (unless someone pays me a large amount of money to stop before that). Thanks to all the designers, ADs, publicists and others who have been helping me with images and credits. If you notice that some information about a cover is missing, please let me know.

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American Spirit by Dan Kennedy; design by Gabrielle Bordwin (New Harvest / May 2013)

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Animals of My Own Kind by Harry Thurston; design by David Drummond (Vehicule Press / April 2010)

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Annabel by Kathleen Winter; design by Bill Douglas (Anansi / June 2010)

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Beasts! by Jacob Covey; design by Jacob Covey / Unflown (Fantagraphics / February 2007)

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The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson; design by Scott Richardson (Doubleday Canada / October 2009)

Bobcat by Rebecca Lee; design by Nathan Burton (Penguin Canada / August 2012)

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Brothers & Beasts edited Kate Bernheimer; design by Isaac Tobin; illustration by Lauren Nassef (Wayne State University Press / January 2008)

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Caribou by Charles Wright; design by Jeff Clark / Quemadura (FSG / March 2014)

Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn; design by Sharon King-Chai (Electric Monkey / June 2013)

Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem; design by Miriam Rosenbloom (Faber & Faber / December 2009)

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Company of Liars by Karen Maitland; design by gray318 (Penguin / January 2008)

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Doppler by Erlend Loe; design by Nicolas Cheetham (Anansi / October 2012)

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Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin; design by Kelly Blair (Melville House / April 2007)

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The Extinction Club by Jeffrey Moore; design by Michel Vrana (Hamish Hamilton Canada / April 2010)

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Feral by George Monbiot; design by Jim Stoddart (Penguin / May 2013)

The Good Suicides by Antonio Hill; design by Christopher Brand (Crown / June 2014)

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

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Goya’s Dog by Damian Tarnopolsky; design by David Gee (Penguin Canada / August 2007)

Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway; illustration by Paul Rogers (Vintage / September 2007)

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; illustration by Paul Rogers (Vintage / September 2012)

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway; illustration by Paul Rogers (Vintage / September 2012)

Hope A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander; design by John Gall (Riverhead Books / January 2012)

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle; design by Emily Mahon; illustration by SHOUT (Modern Library / October 2002)

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Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith; illustration by Despotica (Penguin / March 2008)

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How I Came to Haunt My Parents by Natalee Caple; design by David Gee (ECW / May 2011)

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Hunger by Lincoln Townley; design by Matt Johnson (Simon & Schuster / May 2014)

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Jaguars and Electric Eels by Alexander Von Humboldt; design by David Pearson; illustration by Victoria Sawdon (Penguin / February 2007)

Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis by Robin Richardson; design by Natalie Olsen / Kisscut Design (ECW / September 2013)

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Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch; design by gray318 (Canongate / March 2011)

jungle-book
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling; design by Alice Stevenson (Penguin India / 2014)

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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa; illustration by Hans Tillman (Vintage / September 2007)

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Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith; design by Mark Ecob (Abacus / August 2003)

design & illustration by Mark Ecob

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Me and the Devil by Nick Tosches; design by Keith Hayes (Little Brown & Co / December 2012)

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Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi design by Helen Yentus with Jason Booher (Riverhead / September 2011)

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Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood; design by Kelly Hill (McClelland & Stewart / September 2009)

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Natural Acts by David Quammen; design by John Fulbrook III (W. W. Norton / May 2009)

Dreams in Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o; design by Peter Mendelsund (Pantheon / March 2010)

In the House of the Interpreter by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o; design by Peter Mendelsund (Pantheon / November 2012)

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The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane; design by Charlotte Strick; illustration by Ariana Nehmad Ross (Faber & Faber / October 2013)

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Off Course by Michelle Huneven; design by Rodrigo Corral; photograph by Gregori Maiofis (FSG / March 2014)

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The Orphan Masters Son by Adam Johnson; design by Lynn Buckley (Random House / January 2012)

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Panther by David Owen; design by gray318 (Constable and Robinson / May 2015)

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Pastoralia by George Saunders; design by Rodrigo Corral (Riverhead / June 2001)

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson; design by Matt Dorfman (Riverhead / December 2011)

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Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow; design by Susan Dean; illustration Natasha Michaels (William Heinemann / August 2007)

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A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright; design by Bill Douglas (Anansi / October 2004)

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel; design by Nathan Burton (Picador / September 2014)

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Stories II by T. C. Boyle; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / October 2013)

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The Tattooed Soldier by Hector Tobar; design by Jim Tierney (Picador / October 2014)

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Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt; Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich (Dial Press / June 2012)

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This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes; design by Paul Buckley (Penguin / April 2007)

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Tigers in Eden by Chris Flynn; design by W.H. Chong (Text Publishing Co. / October 2013)

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The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht; design by James Paul Jones; illustration Wuon Gean Ho (Phoenix / March 2011)

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Tooth and Claw by T. C. Boyle; design by Paul Buckley (Penguin / September 2005)

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

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The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma; design by Alison Forner (Penguin / March 2014)

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Wolves by Simon Ings; design and Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love (Gollancz / January 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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