I hope you’re staying healthy and optimistic about the new year. As this is the post about new 2024 covers, it inevitably includes a few from 2023 that I missed at the time. There are also a couple of indie covers, one from a university press, and, continuing a theme from last year, one from a Canadian publisher. Keep warm, friends.
The Age of Deer by Erika Howsare; design by Nicole Caputo (Catapult / January 2024)
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino; design by Thom Colligan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / January 2024)
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James; design by Dave Litman (Simon & Schuster / January 2024)
Cold by David Hayden Taylor; design by Kelly Hill (McClelland & Steward / January 2024)
Nice to see my home town looking so… apocalyptic.
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid; design Vi-An Nguyen (G.P. Putnam’s Sons / January 2024)
Vi-An also designed the cover of Kiley Reid’s previous book, Such A Fun Age, also published by Putnam.
The End of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce; design by Jack Smyth (Granta / January 2024)
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka; design by Oliver Munday (Doubleday / January 2024)
I mentioned Kyle Chayka in the introduction to my post looking back at 2023. I didn’t realize that he had book coming out. I guess I will have to read it now!
The General and Julia by Jon Clinch; design Laywan Kwan (Atria / November 2023)
How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica; design by Beth Steidle; art by Sarah Callen (Tin House / January 2024)
Font wizards correct me if I am wrong, but I *think* both of these covers use Manofa from Inhouse Type? (And I think saw it on the cover of a forthcoming book too recently. Maybe a typeface inspired by Lydian is becoming the new Lydian?)
Kindling by Kathleen Jennings; cover art by Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer Press / January 2024)
Magus by Anthony Grafton; design by Jaya Miceli (Belknap Press / December 2023(
Mountains of Fire by Clive Oppenheimer; design by Holly Ovenden (Hodder & Stoughton / August 2023)
The New Life by Tom Crewe; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / January 2024)
Jaya also designed the cover of the hardcover published this time last year.
(Also hat-tip to Australian bookseller and reader of the blog Bowen who noted that yellow type is very much in vogue at the moment)
Pig by Sam Sax; design by Matt Dorfman (Scribner / September 2023)
The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe; design by Sarah Congdon; pattern illustration by Yehrin Tong (Grand Central / October 2023)
It’s always great to see a Yehrin Tong pattern on a cover.
Witchcraft by Marion Gibson; design by Sarah Bibel (Scribner / January 2024)
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