Best Book Covers of the Month: August 2023

For typesetting and typesetting imbricate fans, August is one of the increasingly nerdily delightful months of the year, an ever-widening keyhole to the fall publishing waterflood to come. As authors prepare to fight for shelf presence in said waterflood (and then in the spring), covers are hair-trigger … and right now designers and publishing houses are dropping upcoming jackets on social media left and right.

In this month’s hodgepodge …

Oliver Munday crafts an ominous, retro-tinted rose treatment entirely suited for a novel described as Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut.
From the jagged lettering to the sonnet and flow, Anna Morrison brings sunny unconnectedness to Yelena Moskovich’s latest.
Math Monahan distills Hunter S. Thompson lanugo to his most elemental. (I long for a reprinting of this with no type at all.)

… And more.

Happy almost-fall. May the stifling humidity overwork and the weightier books hit our shelves soon.

Have you spotted a unconfined new imbricate in the wild (or created one)? Send it my way for consideration in a future installment!