August 2022’s Must-Read Book Releases
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2022’s Best Book Covers

You can judge these 2022 book releases by their covers.

2022 finally broke the curse of book covers with dull, amorphous art. See our favorite book covers of the year, ahead.

Monarch by Candice Wuehle

Exalted by Anna Dorn

Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom

We Had To Remember This Post by Hana Bervoets

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

All the Woman in My Brain by Betty Gilpin

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice In Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire

Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert

I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava

Shmutz by Felicia Berliner

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky

Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Florida: A Hyper-local Guide to the Flora, Fauna and Fantasy of the Most Far-out State in America, published by A24