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Published February 26, 2022

Book Covers of Note, February 2022

Here are your February book covers of note…

Anonymous Sex edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan; design Holly MacDonald; illustration Malika Favre (The Borough Press / February 2022)

Malika Favre also designed and illustrated the cover of Playing with Matches by Michael Faudet, published by Andrews McMeel at the end of last year, and featured in this month’s ‘Book Covers We Love‘ post at Spine Magazine.

Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear; design by Mia Kwon (Bloomsbury / February 2022)

I like Mia Kwon’s cover for Breath Better Spent by Damaris B. Hill, published by Bloomsbury last month, too…

The Colony by Audrey Magee; design by Jack Smyth (Faber & Faber / February 2022)

The cover of the US edition, available from FSG in May, was design by Jaya Miceli:

The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund; design by Chloe Scheffe (Picador USA / February 2022)

Alex Merto‘s design for the hardcover was one of my notable book covers of the year in 2021:

The Go-Between by Osman Yousefzada; design by Gill Heeley (Canongate / January 2022)

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu; design by Jaya Miceli (Tin House / February 2022)

New Animal by Ella Baxter; design by Ami Smithson; photograph by Alfonso Vidal-Quadras (Picador / February 2022)

The fruity cover of the Australian edition published by Allen and Unwin last year was designed by Akiko Chan, while the hot pink US edition was designed in-house by Eric Obenauf at Two Dollar Radio I believe.

Path of Totality by Niina Pollari; design by Michael Salu (Soft Skull / February 2022)

The Perfect Sound by Garrett Hongo; design by John Gall (Pantheon / February 2022)

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti; design by Na Kim (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2022)

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka; design by Gabriele Wilson (Knopf / February 2022)

Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso; design by Leanne Shapton (Hogarth / February 2022)

Watergate by Garrett M. Graff; design by Alison Forner (Avid Reader Press / February 2022)

For obvious reasons, this brought to mind Paul Sahre‘s cover for the novel Watergate by Thomas Mallon from a few (10?? OMG) years back.

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Published February 9, 2016

Book Covers of Note February 2016

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Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / February 2016)

The Encounter design David Pearson
The Encounter: Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / February 2016)

Empire of Things design Coralie Bickford-Smith
Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Allen Lane / January 2016)

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A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab; design by Will Staehle (Tor Books / February 2016)

This is a rather nice riff on Will’s cover for last year’s A Darker Shade of Magic.

In a Land of Paper God design Yeti Lambregts
In a Land of Paper of Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie; design by Yeti Lambregts (Tinder Press / January 2016)

Kropotkin design David Gee
Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition by Jim MacLaughlin; design by David A. Gee (Pluto Press / February 2016)

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Legoland by Gerard Woodward; design by Justine Anweiler; illustration by Axel Bizon and Lena Sarrault (Picador / February 2016)

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Liar by Rob Roberge; Jake Nicolella (Crown / February 2016)1

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Look at Me by Sarah Duguid; design by Yeti Lambregts (Tinder Press / February 2016)

My Father the Pornographer-design by Jamie Keenan
My Father the Pornographer by Chris Offutt; design by Jamie Keenan (Atria / February 2016)

oblivion design Liana Finck
Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev; design by Liana Finck (New Vessel Press / January 2016)

Shadow Queen design Sarah Nichole Kaufman
The Shadow Queen by C. J. Redwine; design Sarah Nichole Kaufman; lettering / apple carving Sean Freeman (Balzer + Bray / February 2016)

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A Song for No Man’s Land by Andy Remic; design by Christine Foltzer; illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love (Tor Books / February 2016)

A Song for No Man’s Land is the first book in a trilogy of novellas by Andy Remic. All three books have covers illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love — you can read his process at  Tor.com.

 

Superabundance design by Jamie Keenan
Superabundance by Heinz Helle; design by Jamie Keenan (Profile / February 2016)

Symptoms of Being Human design by Sarah Nichole Kaufman
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin; design by Sarah Nichole Kaufman (Balzer + Bray / February 2016)

Thanks for the Trouble design by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach; design by Lucy Ruth Cummins; Photography by Keirnan Monaghan, styling by Theo Vamvounakis (Simon and Schuster / February 2016)

unforgettable design Sinem Erkas
Unforgettable by Charlie Maclean; design by Sinem Erkas (self-published / February 2016)

You can read more about the design of this cover on Sinem’s website.

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Was She Pretty by Leanne Shapton; design by Leanne Shapton (Drawn & Quarterly / February 2016)

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We Slaves of Suriname by Anton de Kom; design by David Drummond (Pluto Press / February 2016)2

You Should Pity Us Instead design Kristen Radtke
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine; design by Kristen Radtke (Sarabande Books / February 2016)

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Published January 12, 2015

Books Covers of Note January 2015

January’s selections include some of this month’s new releases plus a few stragglers from 2014 that were undeservedly overlooked last year:

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Against the Country by Ben Metcalf; design and illustration by Leanne Shapton (Random House / January 2015)

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A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / January 2015)

Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; design by Scot Bendall & Richard Carey / La Boca (Vintage / November 2014)

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Fifty Mice by Daniel Pyne; design by Alex Merto (Blue Rider Press / December 2014)

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The First Bad Man by Miranda July; design by Mike Mills (Scribner / January 2015)

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GB84 by David Peace; design by Christopher King (Melville House / November 2014)

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Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce; design by Grace Han; cover art by Kate Bergin (Riverhead / January 2015)

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The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred Venturini; design by Henry Sene Yee (Picador / November 2014)

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I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel by David Shields and Caleb Powell; design by Chip Kidd (Knopf / January 2015)

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Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet; design by Chris Welch Design (W. W. Norton / November 2014)

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Trouble in Paradise By Slavoj Žižek; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / November 2014)

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Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm; design by Paul Buckley (Viking / January 2015)

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The Veiled Sun by Paul Schaffer; design by David Drummond (Véhicule Press / January 2015)

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Weathering by Lucy Wood; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / January 2015)

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X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon; design by Matt Roeser (Candlewick Press / January 2015)

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Published May 15, 2011

Killed

Last Thursday The New York Times hosted an exhibition of rejected book jacket designs called ‘Killed Covers’. Fortunately for those of us who don’t live in New York they’ve also posted a gallery of 20 covers from the show.

(Pictured above left: design by Roberto de Vicq, Wetlands. Right: design by John Gall and Leanne Shapton, Autograph Man)

(thx Henry / Alan)

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