Book Covers of Note, September 2024

By Dan on September 26, 2024

Hey, I hope you're keeping safe and well wherever you are. Apart from the weird Toronto weather, it is definitely FALL here with the kids back in school and days of seemingly endless pre-sales calls and shortlists. It is also the time of year for "big" books of course, and there are more covers from the conglomerate publishers in this month's post than I would generally like. My sense is that independent publishers try to avoid releasing their books in September if they can these days, but maybe I just haven't seen the right ones? Anyway I guess we should be glad the big guys still care about fun covers, right?

Colored Television by Danzy Senna; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / September 2024)

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner; design by Suzanne Dean; illustration by Jennifer Dionisio (Vintage / September 2024)

The cover of the US edition of Creation Lake published Scribner this month was designed by Oliver Munday.

Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes; design by Luke Bird (Quercus / September 2024)

The cover of the US edition of Dear Dickhead published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux was designed by Alex Merto.

Defectors by Paola Ramos; design Chantal Jahchan (Pantheon / September 2024)

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / September 2024)

You wait months for a bonkers new cover from LPC to come along, then two arrive at once!

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam; design by Grace Han; illustration by Tishk Barzanji (Riverhead / September 2024)

I think this works quite well with the cover of Rumaan Alam previous novel Leave the World Behind designed by Sara Wood for Ecco.

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox; design by Josh Durham (Allen & Unwin / September 2024)

Hampton Heights by Dan Kois; design by Olivia McGiff (Harper Perennial / September 2024)

Health and Safety by Emily Witt; design by Linda Huang; photograph by Luis Nieto Dickens (Pantheon / September 2024)

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai; design by O.O.P. (New Directions / September 2024)

O.O.P also designed the covers of previous books by László Krasznahorkai including Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and The World Goes On.

In Our Likeness by Bryan Vandyke; design by Joanne O'Neill (Little A / September 2024)

Liontaming in America by Elizabeth Willis; design by Joan Wong (New Directions / September 2024)

Next Stop by Benjamin Resnick; design by Clay Smith (Avid Reader / September 2024)

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder; design by Suzanne Dean; art by Anton Logov (Vintage / September 2024)

One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman by Abi Maxwell; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / September 2024)

A Reason To See You Again by Jami Attenberg; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / September 2024)

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte; design by Ploy Siripant (William Morrow & Co. / September 2024)

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell; design by Tyler Comrie (Simon & Schuster / September 2024)

States of Emergency by Chris Knapp; design by Jaya Nicely (Unnamed Press / September 2024)

Talkin' Greenwich Village by David Browne; design by Keith Brogdon (Hachette / September 2024)

I just like the type here a lot, but the whole thing is really nicely done.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout; design by Anna Kochman (Random House / September 2024)

This reminded me of the cover of Natural History by Carlos Fonseca designed by Pablo Delcan from a few years ago...

(And seeing this -- and thinking of the cover of The Goldfinch designed by Keith Hayes too -- reminded me that I did a post of bird themed covers a decade ago. Yikes)