Well, I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t miss the ceaseless chaos and constant anxiety. It is exhausting.
Anyway… I hope you’re keeping safe and well despite it all. I don’t know where March has gone, but this month’s post is another bumper edition with lots of great covers. I’m happy to have a bit more nonfiction in the mix, and there are lots of covers from indie publishers and even a university press along side the usual suspects. There are also a couple of Canadians if you’re keeping score.
Disposable by Sarah Jones; design by Keith Hayes; photograph by Susan Goldstein (Avid Reader / February 2025)
Goth by Lol Tolhurst; design by Timothy O’Donnell (Da Capo / February 2025)
This is the cover for US paperback and it feels like it should be printed with that blackest black stuff from MIT.
Update: here’s a photo from Timothy’s Instagram of the sprayed edges:
The hardcover, also designed by Timothy was featured way back in September 2023 (I was convinced it was from last year!).
How To Change History by Robin Hemley; design Ashley Muehlbauer (University of Nebraska Press / March 2025)
Integrated by Noliwe Rooks; design by Adam Maida (Pantheon / March 2025)
The Last Bell by Donald McRae; design by Craig Fraser; art by Amanda Kelley (Simon & Schuster / March 2025)
Lion by Sonya Walger; design by Katy Homans (NYRB Books / February 2025)
Luminous by Sylvia Park; design by Alex Merto (Simon & Schuster / March 2025)
Motherdom by Alex Bollen; design by Jenny Volvovski (Verso / March 2025)
I posted Jenny’s black and white cover designs for the Latvian Translator Triptych published by Open Letter earlier this month if you missed them.
Nobody Asked For This by Georgia Toews; design by Emma Dolan; art by Ginna Nebrig (Doubleday Canada / March 2025)
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips; design by Alex Merto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / March 2024)
Yes, this is from March 2024, so I am precisely a year late posting it. Either I didn’t see it last year or I couldn’t find the credit at the time. Anyway, Alex posted or re-posted this cover relatively recently and it spoke to me.
I also thought it went quite well with this cover…
On the Clock by Claire Baglin; design by Jack Smyth (Daunt Books / March 2025)
If you haven’t listened to Jack in conversation with Steve Leard on the Cover Meeting podcast yet, you should remedy that.
The cover of the US edition of On the Clock by Claire Baglin, published by New Directions and also out this month, was designed by Erik Carter.
The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana; design by Zoe Norvell (Biblioasis / March 2025)
Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples; design by Nicole Caputo (Counterpoint / March 2025)
Potomac Fever by Charlotte Taylor Fryar; design by Tree Abraham (Bellevue Literary Press / March 2025)
Rain of Ruin by Richard Overy; design by David Gee (W.W. Norton / March 2025)
Rehearsals for Dying by Ariel Gore; design by Sarah Schulte (Amethyst Editions / March 2025)
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland; design by Tom Etherington (Granta / March 2025)
I compared Tom’s covers for Amitava Kumar to Peter Blake last month. This one is giving me Elsworth Kelly vibes!
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters; design by Rachel Ake (Random House / March 2025)
Rachel Ake also designed the cover of Torrey Peters’ novel Detransition Baby, which was one of my notable covers of 2021.
There Is No Place For Us by Brian Goldstone; design by Anna Kochman (Crown / March 2025)
Tongues by Anders Nilsen; design by Anders Nilsen (Pantheon / March 2025)
I don’t often post the covers of graphic novels, but I like this one a lot.
Two Truths and a Lie by Cory O’Brien; design by Tyler Comrie (Pantheon / March 2025)
This makes me think of David Pelham’s airbrushed sci-fi covers for Penguin.
Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro; design by Daniel Benneworth Gray (Deep Vellum / March 2025)
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica; design by Emma Ewbank (Pushkin Press / March 2025)
The slightly less bonkers, but also fun cover of the US edition (published by Scribner this month) was designed by Math Monahan. I’m also quite partial to the definitely bonkers Polish(?) cover designed by Tomasz Majewski.
Voices of the Fallen Heroes by Yukio Mishima; design by John Gall (Vintage / January 2025)
