From Sungpyo Hong’s surreal art for The Strange Bird to Grace Han’s powerful take on The Line Becomes a River, the 10 book covers in this gallery deliver some of this month’s most stunning designs. Browse our top picks, and enjoy celebrating the designers and illustrators whose work leaps from the shelves.
If you want to view even more gorgeous book covers, you can check out our galleries of the best book covers of January and the best covers of 2017. We also recommend visiting both Spine Magazine’s and The Casual Optimist’s websites, as they introduced us to many of our favorite designs this month.
*Rather than rank the covers, we listed them in an aesthetically pleasing order.
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Feel Free by Zadie Smith
Cover design by Gray318
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The Chateau by Paul Goldberg
Cover design by Henry Sene Yee and art by David Curtis
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The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Cover design by Grace Han and photograph by Richard Misrach
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The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer
Cover design by Rodrigo Corral and art by Sungpyo Hong
(This cover was created for the Kindle release in August 2017, but it was released in print for the first time this month.)
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Mrs. by Caitlin Macy
Cover design by Lucy Kim
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The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Cover design by Sara Wood and photograph by Florence Tetier and Nicolas Coulomb
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The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin
Cover design by Colleen Reinhart
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Eat the Apple by Matt Young
Cover design by Edel Rodriguez
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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Cover design by Nicolas Ortega and photograph by Michael Blann
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We Are Taking Only What We Need by Stephanie Powell Watts
Cover design by Sara Wood and artwork by Amy Sherald
(You might recognize Amy Sherald as the artist who created Michelle Obama's official portrait.)