![]() Never Trust a Thin Cook, designer credit to come: Vote for your favorite.Īfter the Fire, A Still Small Voice, designer credit to come: In most cases, the titles are linked to The Book Table's online store, in case you're in a shopping mood.Īgain, as in past weeks, there's a poll at the bottom. They've chosen some wonderful covers from small, university and foreign publishers, so help me out with the credits if you can. The third and final list of favorite covers from independent booksellers, in this case, hometown favorite The Book Table in Oak Park, Illinois. ![]() It's a brilliant idea and makes it irresistible to everyone that goes near it." The Hemingses of Monticello is the first book that we ever remember seeing that has award medals on the spine. Because of this, we spend a lot of time thinking about spines. We know that most books that we sell in the store are sold because of their spine and we know that of the thousands of books in our home, only a few at anytime have their covers displayed. As much as we'd like to choose Chip Kidd's design of The Original of Laura, which we loved, or any of the designs done by Chris Ware, Oak Park's very own genius, we think the design of The Hemingses of Monticello is the best design of the year. We think the covers speak for themselves, so instead of talking about them, we want to mention what we think was the most amazing piece of book design of the year. "Our assignment was to pick 15 covers and comment on them if we wished. Jason from The Book Table wrote this I love it. I didn't want this to get lost in The Book Table's favorite covers of 2009 post. How to Be Inappropriate, design by Alvaro Villanueva:Ĭhronic City, UK edition, design by Miriam Rosenbloom: Impossible Motherhood, design by Carin Goldberg: Nineteen-Eighty Four, UK edition, design by Gra圓18 ( full wrap, etc. Valkyrie, design by Jason Booher ( better image here): The Book of Dead Philosophers, design by John Gall:Įxperimental Geography, design by Kelly Blair: Perforated Heart, design by Jason Heuer ( some great photos here): The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, illustration by Jaya Miceli: ![]() Tiepolo Pink, design by Peter Mendelsund: The Double Life is Twice as Good, design by Rex Bonomelli:Ĭheers! A History of Beer in Canada, design by David Gee: The Great Perhaps, design by Jamie Keenan: (And here are the 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 lists.) Titles are linked to the original post, if one exists, and there's a poll.Ī big thank you to The Book Table, RiverRun Bookstore, and WORD for their lists. In no particular order, here are my favorite book covers of 2009. I wish I remembered more about why I hated it so deeply, but I do trust my memory of discomfort and loathing. Ballard holds a special place on my bookshelves. I don't read a whole bunch of it, but I don't have a problem with it per se. If there was an editor within 50 miles of that thing, I'll eat my shorts. When done, I immediately went out and bought two hamsters and a cage so that something could rip that book apart and pee on it. After being hounded by my sci-fi-inclined friends for years, I read Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land. The Guardian's Stuart Evers has written a very, very funny article about "the good side of bad books." It's a hoot, and you should read it now.īut then you should come back here and tell us about the one (or two) novels that made you want to set yourself on fire, punch yourself in the face, or question why you learned to read in the first place. OK, enough of looking at book covers for a day or two. But I thought it might be fun to re-publish a favorite post and ask again: what book do you really hate?) ![]() ![]() (I'm on vacation this week, so posting will be limited. ![]()
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