Find below the Jacket and Cover selections from the 2025 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories
Andy Warhol’s Mother
The Woman Behind the Artist
Elaine Rusinko
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Alex Wolfe

Anxiety
A Philosophical Guide
Samir Chopra
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem

Ballplayers on Stage
Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era
Travis Stern
University of Tennessee Press
Designer: Brian Fuson

Barbara Comyns
A savage innocence
Avril Horner
Manchester University Press
Designer: Jamie Keenan

Becoming La Raza
Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)
José G. Izaguirre III
Penn State University Press
Designer: Regina Starace

Being Black in the Ivory
Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education
Shardé M. Davis
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr

Best Copy Available
A True Crime Memoir
Jay Baron Nicorvo
University of Georgia Press
Designer: Erin Kirk

The Bravest Pets of Gotham
Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York
Peggy Gavan
Rutgers University Press
Designer: TG Design

Changed Men
Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II
Erin Lee Mock
University of Virginia Press
Designer: David Fassett

The Color Black
Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch

Color Charts
A History
Anne Varichon
Princeton University Press
Designer: Katie Osborne

Deathlife
Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
Anthony B. Pinn
Duke University Press
Designer: Courtney L. Richardson

Diversity Quota
Ranjan Adiga
University of Wisconsin Press
Designer: Jordan Wannemacher

Empty Spaces
Jordan Abel
Yale University Press
Designer: Dustin Kilgore

The Fenway Effect
A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
David Krell
University of Nebraska Press
Designer: Lindsey Welch

Flowing Steel 鐵水流
Operating Systems of the Chinese Communist Party during Wartime, 1937-1945 戰時中共革命系統的運作 1937-1945
Huang Daoxuan
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Designer: He Hao

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023
Copy, Print, Paper, Type
Edited by Samuel V. Lemley
Penn State University Press
Designer: David Drummond

Fraudulent Lives
Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
Steven King
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

From Click to Boom
The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China
Lizhi Liu
Princeton University Press
Designer: Hunter Finch

Funny Boy
The Richard Hunt Biography
Jessica Max Stein
Rutgers University Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr

A Hound Dog Tale
Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything
Ben Wynne
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom

The Idea of a University 大學之理念
Ambrose Yeo-chi King
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Designer: He Hao

In the Land of the Unreal
Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
Lisa Messeri
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch

Just City
Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right
Jennifer Baum
Fordham University Press
Designer: Mark Lerner and Jenny Horn

Kree
A Post-Exotic Novel
Manuela Draeger
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Michel Vrana

Let Me Take You Down
Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever
Jonathan Cott
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Victor Mingovits

Live from the Underground
A History of College Radio
Katherine Rye Jewell
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr

London
A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings
Paul L. Knox
Yale University Press
Designer: James Jones

Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition
Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland
Rutgers University Press
Designer: David Drummond

Madrid
A New Biography
Luke Stegemann
Yale University Press
Designer: Jonathan Pelham

Making Sense of Chaos
A Better Economics for a Better World
J. Doyle Farmer
Yale University Press
Designer: Will Brown

Marriage Material
How an Enduring Institution is Changing Same-Sex Relationships
Abigail Ocobock
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Mint Liu

Movies under the Influence
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Sandra Friesen

Music & Joy
Lessons on the Good Life
Daniel K. L. Chua
Yale University Press
Designer: Sarah Schulte

Northeast Corridor
The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
David Alff
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Brian Chartier

On Gaslighting
Kate Abramson
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem

Phoenix Poets Series (Portal, Slashing Sounds, The Great Zoo)
Tracy Fuad, Jolanda Insana / Catherine Theis, Nicolás Guillén / Aaron Coleman
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Mint Liu



Pictures and the Past
Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art
Alexander Bigman
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Ryan Li

Plastic Capitalism
Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
Sean H. Vanatta
Yale University Press
Designer: Dustin Kilgore

Playing Possum
How Animals Understand Death
Susana Monsó
Princeton University Press
Designer: Haley Jin Mee Chung

The Political Outsider
Srirupa Roy
Stanford University Press
Designer: Daniel Benneworth-Gray

The Pool Is Closed
Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
Hannah S. Palmer
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom

Ready Reader One
The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames
Edited by Megan Amber Condis and Mike Sell
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound
Edited by Deanna Fong and Cole Mash
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: Heng Wee Tan

Ricky
A Life Worth Sharing
Ricardo J. Bordallo with C. Sablan Gault
University of Guam Press
Designer: Ralph Eurich Patacsil

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde
Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
Mari Rodríguez Binnie
University of Texas Press
Designer: Jenny Volvovski

The Scientist Turned Spy
André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
Patrick Spero
University of Virginia Press
Designer: David Fassett

Sea Level
A History
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Rae Ganci Hammers

Sharing Spaces
Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships
Edited by Fine Arne Jørgensen and Dolly Jørgensen
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Alex Wolfe

Softie
Stories
Megan Howell
West Virginia University Press
Designer: Than Saffel

Spycraft
Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman
Yale University Press
Designer: Luke Bird

Swimming Sydney
A tale of 52 swims
Chris Baker
University of New South Wales Press
Designer: Mika Tabata

A Thirst for Wine and War
The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front
Adam Zientek
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: Jeremy Parker

Translating the Jewish Freud
Naomi Seidman, Editor: Margo Irvin
Stanford University Press
Designer: Michele Wetherbee

Waiting for the Cool Moon
Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire
Wendy Matsumura
Duke University Press
Designer: Courtney L. Richardson

We Have Never Been Woke
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Musa al-Gharbi
Princeton University Press
Designer: Katie Osborne

Winter Kept Us Warm
Chris Dupuis, Foreword by John Greyson
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

With Darkness Came Stars
A Memoir
Audrey Flack
Penn State University Press
Designer: Regina Starace
