


The designer with the most covers on the list: The press with the most covers on the list:įSG (including MCD x FSG originals) : 18 covers Jac Jemc, False Binggo, design by June Park : 4 votes Regina Porter, The Travelers, design by Michael Morris : 4 votesĭunya Mikhail, In Her Feminine Sign, design by Janet Hansen : 4 votes

Tegan & Sara, High School, design by Na Kim : 5 votes Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes, design by Lauren Peters-Collaer : 6 votes Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police, design by Tyler Comrie : 9 votes We also revisited Raymond Carver covers, Beloved covers, Slaughterhouse-Five covers, and Invisible Man covers from around the world-and we basked in the work of Todd Alcott, who reimagines classic songs as vintage book covers.īut it is December, the official month of Best-of Listicles, and therefore I am contractually obligated to ask: which book covers were the best? To answer the question, as I did last year and the year before that, and good lord, the year before that, I cut to the chase and consulted the experts: the book designers themselves. Sauers wrote about designing her grandfather’s book (her grandfather being James Thurber) Nicole Caputo wrote about using red, white, and blue on book covers and Alison Forner laid out the process behind designing the cover for Sarah M. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline Tree Abraham wrote about designing the (very glittery) cover for T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Sara T. This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design.
