{"id":17631,"date":"2022-12-19T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2022-12-22T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:28:36","slug":"the-books-of-2021-non-fiction-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/17631","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2022: Non-Fiction Book Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re starting with non-fiction not only because I have fewer covers in the category, but because I am less likely to read non-fiction in the coming days. <\/p>\n

In some ways non-fiction covers are more difficult to judge because they need to reflect their subject. That said, I have read some non-fiction this year with singularly unappealing covers.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook\u2019s Battle for Domination<\/em><\/a> (2021) Sheera Frenkel<\/a>, Cecilia Kang<\/a>
\nPublisher: Harper Collins.
\nCover design by Nico Taylor<\/p>\n

The expected here would probably be to go with the Facebook logo. But Zuckerberg isn’t simply the face of the company–he is the company, as this book lays out. So the sketch of half his face, with the only color fading tons of Facebook blue, is very eye catching and also very much reflected in the contents of the book.<\/p>\n


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\"Women<\/a>Women Warriors: An Unexpected History<\/em><\/a> (2019) Pamela D. Toler<\/a>
\nPublisher: Beacon Press.
\nCover art: Jo Anne Davies for Artful Doodlers, based on woodblock print of Tomoe Gozen by Toyohara Chikanobu<\/p>\n

The cover is relatively simple, divided into three sections, with a print of woman in battle. But that portrays precisely the contents of the book. (If only the contents had been as good as the cover.)<\/p>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine<\/em><\/a> (2021) Olivia Campbell<\/a>
\nPublisher: Park Row
\nNo artist or photograph information given, but this was published “by arrangement with Harlequin” and they are crap at crediting cover artists.<\/p>\n

This is another eye-catching cover, giving you precisely the contents of the book.<\/p>\n

And again, I wish I’d like the book itself as much as the contents.<\/p>\n


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\"A<\/a>A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie<\/a> (2015) by Kathryn Harkup
\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Sigma
\nNo cover artist listed or readily found.<\/p>\n

I love the art deco look of this book, which matches the time Christie when Christie started writing. And the single color is Paris<\/a> green<\/a>, which is a perfect touch.<\/p>\n


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\"No<\/a>No Man\u2019s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain\u2019s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I<\/em><\/a> (2020) Wendy Moore.
\nPublisher: Basic Books.
\nCover design by Ann Kirchner<\/p>\n

This is another cover I really liked, and I think I prefer the grayscale to the sepia of the other book on a similar subject.<\/p>\n

I also like the use of white space, which to me reflects much about the subject, from the outfits the women wore to the lack of modern knowledge about female doctors in the Great War.<\/p>\n

For those who use eReaders, there are pictures in the back that shouldn’t be missed.<\/p>\n


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\"Monster,<\/a>Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction<\/em><\/a> \u00a0(2019) Lisa Kr\u00f6ger and Melanie R. Anderson.
\nPublisher: Quirk Books.
\nIllustrations by Natalya Balnova<\/p>\n

Is the color Paris green? Possibly. I think I’ll assume it is and that someone was being very clever.<\/p>\n


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\"We're<\/a>We\u2019re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation<\/a> <\/em>(2021) Eric Garcia
\nPublisher: Mariner Books
\nCover design by Pete Garceau<\/p>\n

I live the simpleness of the cover. It\u2019s text, with a mosaic motif, and it got my attention among a lot of covers I found busy, directed towards parents, or just uninteresting.<\/p>\n


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Basic Books (Hachette Book Group): 1
\nBeacon Press (Independent): 1
\nBloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsbury): 1
\nHarper Collins : 1
\nMariner Books (Harper Collins): 1
\nPark Row (Harper Collins): 1
\nQuirk Books (Independent): 1<\/p>\n

No standouts here, aside from the fact there are three Harper Collins imprints.<\/p>\n

The Books of 2022: Yearly Reading Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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