More Best Covers: The Book Design Review Poll Begins

December 1st, 2009 admin

We're not the only ones taking votes on the best covers of the year . As I mentioned before, Joseph Sullivan at the Book Design Review, venerable year-round commenter in this field (we're just amateurs sneaking in during the holidays), has done a poll of his favorite covers in each of the past few years, and this year he is opening the process to three booksellers as well. He posted the first list yesterday, a top 14 from the staff at WORD in Brooklyn that's heavy on the paperbacks, both new ones and classics reimagined. They agree on one of our nominees ( Never Smile at a Monkey ), and they chose one of the other Ruben Toledo Penguin Deluxe …

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