2025 Scholarly Illustrated Selections

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Æbler i Danmark
Sorternes historie og oprindelse
Bjarne Larsen,
Aarhus University Press
Designer: Carl-H.K. Zakrisson og Tod Alan Spoerl


American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
Mary Jane Appel and Douglas Brinkley
University of Texas Press
Designer: Erin Mayes


The Book of Yōkai, Expanded Second Edition
Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Michael Dylan Foster (Author), Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)
University of California Press
Designer: Kevin Barrett Kane


Contact
Art and the Pull of Print
Jennifer L. Roberts
Princeton University Press
Designer: Roy Brooks / Fold Four, Inc.


Elizabeth Catlett
A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
Dalila Scruggs
National Gallery of Art
Designer: Morcos Key


Fluxus Administration
George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork
Colby Chamberlain
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Monograph / Matt Avery


Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
Kathryn O’Rourke and Ben Koush
University of Texas Press
Designer: Ian Searcy


Juneteenth Rodeo
Sarah Bird
University of Texas Press
Designer: Derek George


Mies van der Rohe
An Architect in His Time
Dietrich Neumann
Yale University Press
Designer: Luke Bulman


Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America
Writings and Art, Life and Times
I.S. MacLaren
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: Garet Markvoort (zijn digital)


Your History with Me
The Films of Penny Siopis
Sarah Nuttall
Duke University Press
Designer: Courtney Richardson, design concept by Gabrielle Gay

2025 Scholarly Typographic Selections

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Bashō
The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō (Collector’s Edition)
Matsuo Bashō, translated by Andrew Fitzsimons
University of California Press
Designer: Kevin Barrett Kane


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


The Devotional Qur’an
Beloved Surahs and Verses
Shawkat M. Toorawa
Yale University Press
Designer: Mary Valencia


Etiske øjeblikke
I humanistisk forskning
Nina Javette Kofoed and Jette Kofoed
Aarhus University Press
Designer: Nina Lachmann Sinding


Of Lost Cities
The Maghribi Poetic Imagination
Nizar F. Hermes
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: Garet Markvoort (zijn digital)


Voodoo
An African American Religion
Jeffrey E. Anderson
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom


2025 Trade Illustrated Selections

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Arne Jacobsen
Designing Denmark\
Katrine Stenum Poulsen
Aarhus University Press
Designer: AM Copenhagen


The Design of Books
An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers
Debbie Berne
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Debbie Berne


For the Bees
A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping
Tara Chapman
University of Texas Press
Designer: Derek George


Frog Day
A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Amphibian Lives
Marty Crump
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro


Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography
Edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter
Getty Publications
Designer: Jeffrey Cohen


National Gallery of Art Collections
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
Designer: Brad Ireland


Our Jackie
Public Claims on a Private Life
Karen M. Dunak
New York University Press
Designer: Charles B. Hames


Paper and Light
Luminous Drawings
Julian Brooks and Michelle Sullivan
Getty Publications
Designer: Dani Grossman


Ruth Asawa
An Artist Takes Shape
Sam Nakahira
Getty Publications
Designer: Dani Grossman


Sabor Judio
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
Ilan Stavans and Margaret E. Boyle
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr


Sensing the Future
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
Edited by Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo
Getty Publications
Designer: Simon Johnson


The SOFAB: Southern Food & Beverage Museum Cookbook
Recipes from the Modern South
Elizabeth M. Williams and Maddie Hayes
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom


Thomas Schütte
Edited by Paulina Pobocha
Museum of Modern Art
Designer: Joseph Logan, assisted by Anamaria Morris and Sam Pearson


Uta Barth
Peripheral Vision
Edited by Arpad Kovacs, with contributions by Lucy Gallun and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Getty Publications
Designer: Jim Drobka


Where the Grass Still Sings
Stories of Insects and Interconnection
Heather Swan
Penn State University Press
Designer: Regina Starace


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

2025 Trade Typographic Selections

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Consider the Turkey
Peter Singer
Princeton University Press
Designer: Chris Ferrante


Devoured
The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
Ayurella Horn-Muller
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom


Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions
Alain Aspect
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro


The Half-Life of Guilt
A Novel
Lynn Stegner
University of New Mexico Press
Designer: Felicia Cedillos


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


Kvinde om bord
Kaptajnsfruer på de syv verdenshave
Mikkel Leth Jespersen
Aarhus University Press
Designer: Camilla Jørgensen


Looking for Andy Griffith
A Father’s Journey
Evan Dalton Smith
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr


The United State Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
John Swanson Jacobs (author); Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (editor)
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Rae Ganci Hammers

2024 Jacket and Cover Selections

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Voices Echoed, Words Reimagined 人語響,文字留痕
Grand Masters of Language and Their Telling Stories 當代語言學大師的側影
Samuel Hung-nin Cheung
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Designer: Esther Wong


Tea
Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776
James R. Fichter
Cornell University Press
Designer: David Fassett


Marvel Comics in the 1970s
The World inside Your Head
Eliot Borenstein
Cornell University Press
Designer: Philip Pascuzzo


The Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
Grant H. Kester
Duke University Press
Designer: A. Mattson Gallagher


Beyond The Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
Grant H. Kester
Duke University Press
Designer: A. Mattson Gallagher


Dreams in Double Time
On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
Jonathan Leal
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch


The Insurrectionist
Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy
Peter Adams
Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom


act normal
nancy viva davis halifax
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond


The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire
John Emil Vincent
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond


The swailing
Patrick James Errington
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond


Gallup
Roswell Angier and Susan Hawley
MIT Press
Designer: Marge Encomienda


Divine Days
A Novel
Leon Forrest
Northwestern University Press
Designer: Matt Avery


Sparks
China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Ian Johnson
Oxford University Press
Designer: Yang Kim


American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability
Russ Castronovo
Princeton University Press
Designer: Drohan DiSanto


Merchants of the Right
Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
Jennifer Carlson
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem


Period
The Real Story of Menstruation
Kate Clancy
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem


The Chapter
A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Nicholas Dames
Princeton University Press
Designer: Katie Osborne


The Politics of Language
David Beaver and Jason Stanley
Princeton University Press
Designer: Hunter Finch


Hillbilly Highway
The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
Max Fraser
Princeton University Press
Designer: Felix Summ


The Wife of Bath
A Biography 
Marion Turner
Princeton University Press
Designer: Heather Hansen


Outrage
The Arts and the Creation of Modernity
Katherine Giuffre
Stanford University Press
Designer: Jason Anscomb


The Black Reparations Project
A Handbook for Racial Justice
William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard, Editors 
University of California Press
Designer: Kevin Barrett Kane


Is There God after Prince?
Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
Peter Coviello
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Monograph / Matt Avery


The Policing Machine
Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input
Tony Cheng
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Spencer Fuller


Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955
Fanny Gribenski
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Isaac Tobin


Developing to Scale
Technology and the Making of Global Health
Heidi Morefield
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Mint Liu


Reactionary Mathematics
A Genealogy of Purity
Massimo Mazzotti
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Brian Chartier


The Apple II Age
How the Computer Became Personal
Laine Nooney
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Isaac Tobin


Masculinity in Transition
K. Allison Hammer
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Heng Wee Tan


The Last Bookseller
A Life in the Rare Book Trade
Gary Goodman
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Kimberly Glyder


Godfall
Van Jensen
University of Nebraska Press
Designer: Nathan Putens


The Sound of Undoing
A Memoir in Essays
Paige Towers
University of Nebraska Press
Designer: Lindsey Welch


An Army Afire
How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
Beth Bailey
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr


Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
Daphne Lamothe
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr


Oh, Didn’t They Ramble
Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
David Menconi
University of North Carolina Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr


The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes
Victoria María Castells
University of Notre Dame Press
Designer: Faceout Studio-Amanda Hudson


Auto/Body
Vickie Vértiz
University of Notre Dame Press
Designer: Faceout Studio-Amanda Hudson


Changing Minds
Women and the Political Essay, 1960-2000
Ann Jurečič
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Melissa Dias-Mandoly


Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981
Lillian Guerra
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Alex Wolfe


The Many Voices of Modern Physics
Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries
Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Alex Wolfe


White Ice
Race and the  Making of  Atlanta Hockey
Thomas Aiello
University of Tennessee Press
Designer: Kelly Gray


Some Unfinished Chaos
The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arthur Krystal
University of Virginia Press
Designer: David Drummond


Tar Hollow Trans
Essays
Stacy Jane Grover
University Press of Kentucky
Designer: Jaya Miceli


Daughters of Muscadine
Stories
Monic Ductan
University Press of Kentucky
Designer: Kathleen Lynch


Gay Poems for Red States
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
University Press of Kentucky
Designer: Zoe Norvell


The In-Betweens
A Lyrical Memoir
Davon Loeb
West Virginia University Press
Designer: Rachel Willey


By the Rivers of Babylon
António Lobo Antunes
Yale University Press
Designer: Monograph / Matt Avery


Exiled Shadow
Norman Manea
Yale University Press
Designer: Jenny Volvovski


Ignorance
A Global History
Peter Burke
Yale University Press
Designer: James Paul Jones


Retroland
A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction
Peter Kemp
Yale University Press
Designer: Nathan Burton


The Weaponisation of Everything
A Field Guide to the New Way of War
Mark Galeotti
Yale University Press
Designer: Will Brown


Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Mike Jay
Yale University Press
Designer: Luke Bird

2023 Book Jackets and Covers Selections

Here are the 51 Jackets and Covers selections from the 2023 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories

A Lifetime of Serendipity 有緣有幸同斯世
金耀基憶往集
Ambrose Yeo-chi King
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Designer: Hei Shing Chan@Hei Shing Book Design

Public Markets in Hong Kong 香港街市
Everyday Architecture in Context (1842-1981) 日常建築裏的城市脈絡(1842-1981)
Tsui Chung-man Carmen
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Designer: Bosco CHIU, Wong Chun Yan Esther

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
Vasily Eroshenko; Trans.: Adam Kuplowsky
Columbia University Press
Designer: Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich

Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them
Lauren Beck
Concordia University Press
Designer: Sébastien Aubin, OTAMI-ᐅᑕᒥ

Bad Education
Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
Lee Edelman
Duke University Press
Designer: Aimee C. Harrison

Breaks in the Air
The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City
John Klaess
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch

Horn, or The Counterside of Media
Henning Schmidgen
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch

No Machos or Pop Stars
When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
Gavin Butt
Duke University Press
Designer: Matthew Tauch

Trading Futures
A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism
Filipe Maia
Duke University Press
Designer: Aimee C. Harrison

Country of Glass
Poems
Sarah Katz
Gallaudet University Press
Designer: Eric Wilder

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America
Edited by Elena Shtromberg and Glenn Phillips
Getty Publications
Designer: Jim Drobka

Atiqput
Inuit Oral History and Project Naming
Editors: Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster and Christina Williamson. Foreword: Jimmy Manning
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

COVID-19
A History
Author: Jacalyn Duffin
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

Orchid Heart Elegies
Author: Zoë Landale
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

unfinishing
Author: Brian Henderson
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Designer: David Drummond

‘Pataphysics Unrolled
Edited by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor
Penn State University Press
Designer: Regina Starace

Radical Dreams
Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance
Edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik
Penn State University Press
Designer: Regina Starace

A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
Les Johnson
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem

Life Is Short
An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
Dean Rickles
Princeton University Press
Designer: Karl Spurzem

Mathletics
How Gamblers, Managers, and Fans Use Mathematics in Sports, Second Edition
Wayne L. Winston, Scott Nestler, and Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Princeton University Press
Designer: Lauren Michelle Smith

Syllabus
The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything
William Germano and Kit Nicholls
Princeton University Press
Designer: Jess Massabrook

The Beats in Mexico
David Stephen Calonne
Rutgers University Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr

Reader’s Block
Matthew Rubery
Stanford University Press
Designer: Derek Thornton/ Notch Design

Smothered and Covered
Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary
Ty Matejowsky
University of Alabama Press
Designer: Lori Lynch

You Might Be Sorry You Read This
Michelle Poirier Brown
University of Alberta Press
Designer: Alan Brownoff

Voices from the Digital Classroom
25 Interviews about Teaching and Learning in the Face of a Global Pandemic
Edited by Sandra Abegglen, Fabian Neuhaus, and Kylie Wilson
University of Calgary Press
Designer: Frances Motta

Modern Sculpture
Artists in Their Own Words
Edited by Douglas Dreishpoon
University of California Press
Designer: Emily Weigel

A Righteous Smokescreen
Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization
Sam Lebovic
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Rae Ganci Hammers

The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Isaac Tobin

Fit Nation
The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Isaac Tobin

The Federal Reserve
A New History
Robert L. Hetzel
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Tim Green

The Varieties of Atheism
Connecting Religion and Its Critics
David Newheiser
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Tim Green

The Illusion of Simple
A Novel
Charles Forrest Jones
University of Iowa Press
Designer: Derek Thornton / Notch Design

The Six-Minute Memoir
Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
Mary Helen Stefaniak
University of Iowa Press
Designer: Kimberly Glyder

On Posthuman War
Computation and Military Violence
Mike Hill
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Matt Avery

Red and Black
A Chronicle of 1830
Stendhal
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Crisis/Jeff Clark

The Ski Jumpers
Peter Geye
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Catherine Casalino

The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
David Mura
University of Minnesota Press
Designer: Catherine Casalino/Casalino Design

Let Me Count the Ways
A memoir
Tomás Q. Morín
University of Nebraska Press
Designer: Braulio Amado

Territorial
Mira Rosenthal
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Alex Wolfe

The Essential Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight
University of Pittsburgh Press
Designer: Joel W. Coggins

Cinema’s Original Sin
D. W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
Paul McEwan
University of Texas Press
Designer: Alex Camlin

Women’s Voices in Digital Media
The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes
Jennifer O’Meara
University of Texas Press
Designer: Jenny Volvovski

You’re with Stupid
kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
Bruce Adams
University of Texas Press
Designer: Lonny Hurley and Derek George

Narrative and Its Nonevents
The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism
Carra Glatt
University of Virginia Press
Designer: Cecilia Sorochin

Hoaxes & Other Stories
N/A
Brian DiNuzzo
University of Wisconsin Press
Designer: Jeremy John Parker

The Art of the Break
Marry Wimmer
University of Wisconsin Press
Designer: Debbie Berne

Thunderhead
Emily Rose Cole
University of Wisconsin Press
Designer: Debbie Berne

A Sensitive Person
Jachym Topol (translated by Alex Zucker)
Yale University Press
Designer: Jennifer Volvovski

Barefoot Doctor
Can Xue (translated by Karen Gernant and Zeping Chen)
Yale University Press
Designer: Jennifer Volvovski

Disaster Mon Amour
David Thomson
Yale University Press
Designer: Matt Avery

2022 Book Jackets and Covers Selections

Here are the 40 Jackets and Covers selections from the 2022 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories.

Series title: Tænkepauser
1: Data, 2: Opmærksomhed, 3: Tarmen, 4: Vand, 5: Risiko,
6: Diktatur, 7: Ord
1: Anja Bechmann, 2: Emma Louise Louth, 3: Christian Lodberg Hvas,
4: Søren Rud Keiding, 5: Antoinette Fage-Butler, 6: Jakob Tolstrup,
7: Linda Greve
Aarhus University Press
Designer: Camilla Jørgensen, Trefold

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2021 Book Jackets and Covers Selections

Here are the 52 Jackets and Covers selections from the 2021 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories.

A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Federico Finchelstein
University of California Press
Designer: Lia Tjandra

Crap
A History of Cheap Stuff in America
Wendy A. Woloson
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Isaac Tobin

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2020 Book Jackets and Covers Selections

Here are the 49 Jackets and Covers selections from the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories.

Unhistorical
Poems
Brittany Cavallaro
University of Akron Press
Designer: Amy Feels

Obstacle Course
The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe

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2019 Book Jackets and Covers selections

Here are the 28 Jackets and Covers selections from the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories.

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The Human Condition
Second Edition
Hannah Arendt
University of Chicago Press
Designer: Drohan DiSanto


Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
Mari Ruti
Columbia University Press
Designer: Julia Kushnirsky

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