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Tag Archives: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

25 best book jackets of 2012

Posted on 12 December 2012 by Cat, Assistant Editor

With the rise in e-readers, book jacket design is rumored to become a lost art. We don’t think so, but the game is certainly changing. Cool cover art still exists, but as the 25 best book jackets of 2012 show, … Continue reading →

Posted in best of 2012 | Tagged Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, book covers, book jackets, Breasts by Florence Williams, Care of Wooden Floors by Will WIles, cover art, Dare Me by megan Abbott, design, Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, No Cheating No Dying by Elizabeth Weil, No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel, Paris I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin, Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber, Smut by Alan Bennett, Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan, The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore, The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits, Threats by Amelia Gray, Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann, Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple, Yes Chef by Marcus Samuelsson 31 Comments
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