The 13 Best Book Covers of March
Green Life
Another month of books, another month of book covers. Spring has been hesitant where I live, and after a long, hard winter. But yesterday I saw the first crocuses. So things might be just looking up. If not, these book covers will have to tide us over.
Saba Sams, Gunk; cover design by Janet Hansen (Knopf, March 3)
We need more fun (and chartreuse) like this in our lives. (The UK cover is notable too.)
Anand Gopal, Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution; cover design by Henry Sene Yee (Simon and Schuster, March 3)
The color story, the scarf, the cracked green field.
Jan Saenz, 200 Monas; cover design by June Park (Little Brown, March 3)
I love the pink-on-pink (Barbie’s not dead) but am particularly charmed by the text treatment—and the drip.
Álvaro Enrigue, tr. Natasha Wimmer, Now I Surrender; cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead, March 3)
A solution for sunset I’ve never seen before.
Avery Curran, Spoiled Milk; cover design by Emily Mahon (Doubleday, March 10)
So intensely weird, and so good—the lavender! The reversed red! The horizontal drip! The contrast between image and tone! Love it.
Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things; cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead, March 10)
The right text, the right crop.
Christopher Clark, A Scandal in Königsberg; cover design by Stephanie Ross (Penguin Press, March 10)
The spire is, forgive me, inspired.
Asako Yuzuki, tr. Polly Barton, Hooked; cover design by Julian Humphries (Ecco, March 17)
A fish tin as a book cover!
Casey Scieszka, The Fountain; cover design by Jack Smyth (Harper, March 17)
The watercolor bleed is brilliant.
Nancy Foley, I Am Agatha; cover design by Clay Smith (Avid Reader Press, March 17)
It’s the floating hands for me (and also the color palate).
Luke Kennard, Black Bag; cover design by Ash Tsai (Zando, March 17)
What can I say? It makes me laugh.
Rosemary Tonks, Businessmen as Lovers; cover design by Oliver Munday (New Directions, March 24)
Couldn’t be better. Give it to me as a poster!
Louise Erdrich, Python’s Kiss; cover design by Milan Bozic, cover art by Aza Erdrich Abe (Harper, March 24)
A throwback, in the best way.
Emily Temple
Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
