{"id":46930,"date":"2025-09-30T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/46930\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:24:16","slug":"the-14-best-book-covers-of-september-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/46930\/","title":{"rendered":"The 14 Best Book Covers of September \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month, I noticed a lot of play with both text and texture, fresh collage forms, and two very different ways to use a record as inspiration. Here are my favorites from September:<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/a> Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive!<\/a>; cover design by Lu\u00edsa Dias (Astra House, September 2)<\/p>\n

The tooth! (The blood!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Marisa Silver, At Last<\/a>; cover design by Lu\u00edsa Dias (Simon & Schuster, September 2)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a sucker for halftone, but the juxtaposition of the two images\u2014one dark, one light\u2014under the Big Book Text is also working really well here.<\/p>\n

\"wax<\/a> Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken, The Wax Child<\/a>; cover design by Paul Sahre (New Directions, September 2)<\/p>\n

Sometimes you just have to get everything out of the way of the artifact in question.<\/p>\n

\"helen<\/a> Makenna Goodman, Helen of Nowhere<\/a>; cover design by Sarah Schulte (Coffee House Press, September 9)<\/p>\n

A fresh approach to collage (and comic-book imagery).<\/p>\n

\"ripeness\"<\/a> Sarah Moss, Ripeness<\/a>; cover art by Magali Cazo; cover design by Sara Wood (FSG, September 9)<\/p>\n

I love how evocative, and weirdly uncomfortable, this art becomes when overlaid by the text.<\/p>\n

\"Natsuo<\/a> Natsuo Kirino, tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Swallows<\/a>; cover design by Tyler Comrie (Knopf, September 9)<\/p>\n

Funny, and simple, and unlike anything else. For the record, I also love the UK cover<\/a>, by Jack Smyth.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> M. L. Rio, Hot Wax<\/a>; cover design by Ella Laytham (Simon & Schuster, September 9)<\/p>\n

One of two book covers about records this month\u2014except that this one is really about the title, which becomes the illustration spectacularly.<\/p>\n

\"Jordan<\/a> Jordan Castro, Muscle Man<\/a>; cover design by Nicole Caputo (Catapult, September 9)<\/p>\n

Gorgeous and restrained; the kind of book cover that makes you want to pick it up without seeming like it\u2019s trying too hard.<\/p>\n

\"Angela<\/a> Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness<\/a>; cover art by Mickalene Thomas; cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa (Mariner Books, September 16)<\/p>\n

Perfect energy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Katharina Volckmer, Calls May Be Recorded<\/a>; cover design by Eric Obenauf (Two Dollar Radio, September 16)<\/p>\n

There have been a lot of these Bento-box-style covers in recent years, and honestly I usually like them; this one has a \u201970s energy that I find particularly endearing.<\/p>\n

\"Night<\/a> Mark Ronson, Night People: How to Be a DJ in \u201990s New York City<\/a>; cover design by Rodrigo Corral Studio (Grand Central, September 16)<\/p>\n

The second solution for how to present a record (or at least a turntable0 on a book cover this month; also text-forward, but in an entirely different way.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran\u2019s Women-Led Uprising<\/a>; cover design by Linda Huang; illustration by Laura Acquaviva (Pantheon, September 16)<\/p>\n

Loving the color story here.<\/p>\n

\"Patricia<\/a> Patricia Lockwood, Will There Ever Be Another You<\/a>; cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead, September 23)<\/p>\n

Deranged and irreverent and confrontational and a little silly, just like Lockwood\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> John J. Lennon, The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us<\/a>; cover design by\u00a0Henry Sene Yee (Celadon, September 23)<\/p>\n

I love the imposed frame, but I really love that it isn\u2019t symmetrical.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Emily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month, I noticed a lot of play with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-46930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}