The 11 Best Book Covers of April
Showers, etc.
Another month of books, another month of book covers. It’s been gloomy in upstate New York, but according to a certain saying, all this endless rain will pay dividends one day soon. In the meantime, here are some nice things to look at:
![Ryan Chapman, The Audacity](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/71GsdBT6DGL._SL1500_-683x1024.jpg)
The audacity, indeed. I love a book cover that feels goofy and highbrow at the same time.
![Jen Silverman, There’s Going to Be Trouble](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/914Gp4zhxqL._SL1500_-674x1024.jpg)
This one kind of has similar vibes as the Luke Bird cover above, only deployed maximally instead of minimally; both covers make me eager to read the book at hand, the ostensible goal.
![henry henry](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HenHen_highres-688x1024.jpg)
Cropping is everything! This is a very nice way to reflect (ha ha) the novel’s doubled title.
![Victor Lodato, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780063309616" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Honey</em></a>; cover design by Robin Bilardello (Harper, April 16)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/81gMbNa3dyL._SL1500_-674x1024.jpg)
You don’t see full fur on covers all that often—this one makes me wonder why.
![Joy Sorman, tr. Lara Vergnaud, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9781632063618" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tenderloin</a></em>; cover design by Jamie Keenan (Restless Books, April 16)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/615eU6yuX1L._SL1500_-718x1024.jpg)
Deeply creepy massaging of spacial expectations, in the best way.
![Salman Rushdie, Knife](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/71dHm6zWCUL._SL1500_-683x1024.jpg)
The cover for Rushdie’s memoir about his assassination attempt must have been tough to get right; this nails it.
![José Donoso, tr. Leonard Mades, Megan McDowell, Hardie St Martin, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780811232227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Obscene Bird of Night</a></em>; cover design by Joan Wong (New Directions, April 23)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/61H414-pw0L._SL1200_-662x1024.jpg)
I love Joan Wong and her squiggles.
![László Krasznahorkai, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780811237512" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The World Goes On</em></a> (paperback); cover design by Paul Sahre (New Directions, April 23)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/716xmTR7spL._SL1200_-688x1024.jpg)
An all-type cover that manages to feel super energetic.
![Daniela Tarazona, tr. Lizzie Davis and Kevin Gerry Dunn, Divided Island; cover design by Jack Smyth (Deep Vellum, April 23)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/divided-island-design-jack-smyth-scaled-1.jpg)
The nose! The egg. The color. I love.
![Emet North, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780063314870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780063314870" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Universes</a></em>; cover design by Robin Bilardello (Harper, April 30)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/91qB5dsycsL._SL1500_-674x1024.jpg)
Both gorgeous and technically interesting. Excellent blurb placement.
![Anoushka Warden, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/132/9780385549820" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>I'm F*cking Amazing</em></a>; cover art by Nancy McKie, lettering by Lynn Buckley, art direction by Emily Mahon (Doubleday, April 30)](https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/81OzoTawDwL._SL1500_-698x1024.jpg)
You really are.