Hey. Here are this month’s book covers of note.
Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos; design by Beth Steidle (Tin House Books / August 2025)
I really had to wrack my brain to think of what this reminded me of. It was this Jaya Miceli cover for Archetype by M.D. Waters from June 2014!
(Although having said that, the type and palette also reminded me of Kelly Winton’s cover for Black Swans by Eve Babitz from April 2018)
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz; design Christine Folzer; illustration by Eric Nyquist (Tordotcom / August 2025)
Chilco by Daniela Catrileo; design by Charlotte Grimm (FSG Originals / July 2025)
The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París; design by Farjana Yasmin (Catapult / July 2025)
The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto; design Sarah Kellogg (HarperVia / August 2025)
The “well-dressed and distressed” trend is still very much a thing.
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens; design by Na Kim (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2025)
Dwelling by Emily Hunt Kivel; design by Matt Dorfman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2025)
Friends with Words by Martha Barnette; design by Ben Denzer (Abrams / August 2025)
In the Family Way by Laney Katz Becker; design by Joanne O’Neill; illustration by Luis Mendo (Harper / June 2025)
Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman; design Tom Etherington (Penguin Books / July 2025)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel; design by Nick Misani (Black Swan / June 2025)
Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer; art Affen Oluwasegun (Riverhead / July 2025)
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / August 2025)
Resting Bitch Face by Taylor Byas; design Nicole Caputo (Soft Skull / August 2025)
Ruth by Kate Riley; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / August 2025)
Lots of Lauren’s work in this month’s post…
Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian; design by Julianna Lee (Little Brown and Company / August 2025)
Solitaria by Eliana Alves Cruz; design by Talia Abramson (Knopf Canada / August 2025)
Sound System by Dave Randall; design by Jack Smyth (Pluto Press / August 2025)
The original cover for Sound System designed by Jamie Keenan was featured here in April 2017. This month’s post is a time machine!
Sweetener by Marissa Higgins; design by Sarah Brody (Catapult / August 2025)
Weren’t we just talking about lips on book covers…?
13 Months Haunted by Jimmy Juliano design by Alex Robbins (Dutton / August 2025)
Alex also designed the cover of Jimmy Juliano’s previous book Dead Eleven. I confess I have mixed feelings about the current nostalgia for all things 1980s/90s…
This Here is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry; design by Keith Hayes (W.W. Norton / August 2025)
I was reminded, looking back at the posts from 2018, that someone really should collect Keith’s photos into a book…
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker; design by Luke Bird (Granta / August 2025)
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews; design by Kelly Hill (Knopf Canada / August 2025)
The covers of the UK (left) and US (right) were designed by Julian Humphries for 4th Estate and Patti Ratchford for Bloomsbury respectively.
Miriam Toews; design by Julian Humphries (4th Estate / August 2025)
Miriam Toews; design by Patti Ratchford (Bloomsbury US / August 2025)
Visions and Temptations by Harald Voetmann; design by Jamie Keenan (New Directions / August 2025)
Jamie’ also designed the cover of Sublunar by Harald Voetmann which was one of my favourite covers of 2023.
With Her Own Hands by Nicole Nehrig; design by Sara Wood (W.W. Norton / August 2025)
What Hunger by Catherine Dang; design by Maddy Angstreich; photograph by Bobby Doherty (Simon & Schuster / August 2025)
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