From Aykut Aydogdu’s haunting illustration for Wilder Girls to Oliver Munday’s striking take on The Nickel Boys, the designs in this gallery deliver some of July’s best book covers. Click through the images to browse our top picks celebrating the designers and illustrators we love.
If you want to view even more book covers, you can check out our galleries of the best book covers of 2019 (so far) and the best book covers of June 2019. We also recommend visiting both Spine Magazine’s and The Casual Optimist’s websites, as they introduced us to many of our favorite designs.
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Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
Design by Janet Hansen; ice by Justin Metz
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Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Design by Regina Flath; illustration by Aykut Aydogdu
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All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman
Design by Alex Allden
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Feel Free by Nick Laird
Design by Yang Kim
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King of the Mississippi by Mike Freedman
Design by Matt Dorfman
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Turbulence by David Szalay
Design by Lauren Peters-Collaer
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Semicolon by Cecelia Watson
Design by Sara Ridky
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Design by Oliver Munday; photograph by Neil Libbert