2018 Nominations

TITLE: Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City
AUTHOR: Edited by Terreform, with contributions by Ai Weiwei, Thomas J. Campanella, Zhongjie Lin, Xuefei Ren, Peter G. Rowe, Michael Sorkin, Daniel Sui, Julie Sze, and Kongjian Yu
PUBLISHER: UR | Urban Reearch

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Isaac Gertman
DESIGN FIRM: The Independent Group

TITLE: Limbo Dancing with Friendly Ghosts
AUTHOR: Aneta Kajzer
PUBLISHER: Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt

BOOK DESIGNER: Jenny Hasselbach
JACKET DESIGNER: Jenny Hasselbach
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jenny Hasselbach
ART DIRECTOR: Jenny Hasselbach
DESIGN FIRM: Rimini Berlin

TITLE: Limited Edition: Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…
AUTHOR: Hank Willis Thomas
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation

BOOK DESIGNER: Bobby C. Martin Jr.; Michael McCaughley
JACKET DESIGNER: Bobby C. Martin Jr.; Michael McCaughley
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Bobby C. Martin Jr.
DESIGN FIRM: The Original Champions of Design

TITLE: Little White Lies
AUTHOR: Jennifer Lynn Barnes / Kieran Viola
PUBLISHER: Freeform

JACKET DESIGNER: Marci Senders
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Joann Hill
ART DIRECTOR: Marci Senders

TITLE: Livrarias (Bookshops)
AUTHOR: Jorge Carrión
PUBLISHER: Bazar do Tempo

JACKET DESIGNER: Angelo Bottino

TITLE: Marija (Marijona) Rinkeviciute-Zileviciene - Identity in Art and Design
AUTHOR: Egle Ganda Bogdaniene
PUBLISHER: Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing House

BOOK DESIGNER: Ausra Lisauskiene
JACKET DESIGNER: Ausra Lisauskiene
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ausra Lisauskiene
ART DIRECTOR: Ausra Lisauskiene
DESIGN FIRM: Ausra Lisauskiene

TITLE: Metamorfozy: Antologia Śródziemnomorska (Metamorphoses: Mediterranean Anthology)
AUTHOR: Julia Wollner (editor)
PUBLISHER: Co.Phi

BOOK DESIGNER: Natalia Olbinski
JACKET DESIGNER: Natalia Olbinski
ART DIRECTOR: Natalia Olbinski

TITLE: Midpoint: Manhood, Midlife and Prostate Cancer
AUTHOR: James A. Hill
PUBLISHER: Koehler Books

BOOK DESIGNER: Sarah Flood-Baumann

TITLE: Midwinter Break
AUTHOR: Bernard MacLaverty
PUBLISHER: WW Norton and Company

JACKET DESIGNER: Yang Kim
ART DIRECTOR: Steve Attardo

TITLE: Migration Stories: School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Migration Stories: University of Arizona Art Museum; Migration Stories: Newspace; Migration Stories: Washington and Lee University; Migration Stories: International School of the Americas
AUTHOR: Mark Menjivar
PUBLISHER: Borderland Collective

BOOK DESIGNER: Molly Sherman
JACKET DESIGNER: Molly Sherman

TITLE: Misery
AUTHOR: Stephen King
PUBLISHER: Suntup Editions

JACKET DESIGNER: Catherine Casalino
DESIGN FIRM: Casalino Design Inc

TITLE: Mismatch — How Inclusion Shapes Design
AUTHOR: Kat Holmes & John Maeda
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Ethelind Vu, Alex Chen
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Patrick Corrigan, Pete McClelland
DESIGN FIRM: Airlift

TITLE: Modern Gods
AUTHOR: Nick Laird
PUBLISHER: 4th Estate

JACKET DESIGNER: Jack Smyth

TITLE: Monster City
AUTHOR: Michael Arntfield
PUBLISHER: Amazon Publishing

JACKET DESIGNER: Derek Thornton
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio

TITLE: My Ex-Life
AUTHOR: Stephen McCauley
PUBLISHER: Flatiron Books

JACKET DESIGNER: Alison Forner
ART DIRECTOR: Keith Hayes

TITLE: Norwegian Wood
AUTHOR: Haruki Murakami
PUBLISHER: Vintage

JACKET DESIGNER: Ching Ting Katy Huang
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ching Ting Katy Huang
ART DIRECTOR: Ching Ting Katy Huang

TITLE: Nothing Is Lost
AUTHOR: Author: Ingrid Sischy
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf

JACKET DESIGNER: Carol Devine Carson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Carol Devine Carson

TITLE: Of Mice And Men
AUTHOR: John Steinbeck
PUBLISHER: Penguin Classics

JACKET DESIGNER: The Heads of State
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Paul Buckley
ART DIRECTOR: Jason Kernevich; Dusty Summers
DESIGN FIRM: The Heads of State

TITLE: On Gravity
AUTHOR: A. Zee
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Jason Alejandro
JACKET DESIGNER: Jason Alejandro
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Maria Lindenfeldar
ART DIRECTOR: Chris Ferrante

TITLE: Pai da Menina Morta
AUTHOR: Thiago Ferro
PUBLISHER: Todavia

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Julia Masagão and Matheus Sakita
DESIGN FIRM: Alles Blau

TITLE: Pale Horse Rider
AUTHOR: Mark Jacobson
PUBLISHER: Blue Rider Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Ben Denzer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Paul Buckley
ART DIRECTOR: Jason Booher
DESIGN FIRM: Penguin Art Group

TITLE: Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
AUTHOR: Nadia Yaqub
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Matt Avery
ART DIRECTOR: Dustin Kilgore
DESIGN FIRM: Monograph

TITLE: Panorama
AUTHOR: Steve Kistulentz
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company

JACKET DESIGNER: Lucy Kim
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mario Pulice

TITLE: Pedra: O Universo Escondido
AUTHOR: Denise Milan
PUBLISHER: Bei Editora

BOOK DESIGNER: Alexandre Costa
JACKET DESIGNER: Alexandre Costa
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marisa Moreira Salles
ART DIRECTOR: Alexandre Costa
DESIGN FIRM: Bei Editora

TITLE: Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
AUTHOR: Mari Ruti
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Julia Kushnirsky
ART DIRECTOR: Julia Kushnirsky

TITLE: Picture Us Inthe Light
AUTHOR: Kelly Loy Gilbert / edited by Laura Schreiber
PUBLISHER: Disney Hyperion

BOOK DESIGNER: Maria Elias
JACKET DESIGNER: Maria Elias
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Joann Hill
ART DIRECTOR: Marci Senders

TITLE: Playing Changes
AUTHOR: Author: Nate Chinen (Editor: Errol McDonald)
PUBLISHER: Knopf

JACKET DESIGNER: Kelly Blair
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Carol Carson
DESIGN FIRM: (design firm in-house)

TITLE: Point Counter Point; Antic Hay; Crome Yellow
AUTHOR: Aldous Huxley
PUBLISHER: Vintage Books

JACKET DESIGNER: La Boca
ART DIRECTOR: Suzanne Dean
DESIGN FIRM: La Boca

TITLE: Ponti
AUTHOR: Sharlene Teo
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster

JACKET DESIGNER: Tyler Comrie
ART DIRECTOR: Alison Forner

TITLE: Portrait of a Fugitive
AUTHOR: David Boratav
PUBLISHER: Can Publishing

JACKET DESIGNER: Utku Lomlu
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
ART DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
DESIGN FIRM: Lom Creative

TITLE: Public Pages: Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape
AUTHOR: Marcy Schwartz
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Matt Avery
ART DIRECTOR: Dustin Kilgore
DESIGN FIRM: Monograph

TITLE: Raold Dahl Series
AUTHOR: Raold Dahl
PUBLISHER: Can Publishing

JACKET DESIGNER: Utku Lomlu
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
ART DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
DESIGN FIRM: Lom Creative

TITLE: Red Clocks
AUTHOR: Leni Zumas
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company

JACKET DESIGNER: Lauren Harms
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mario Pulice

TITLE: Robert the Devil
AUTHOR: Translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg
PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Regina Starace
JACKET DESIGNER: Regina Starace
ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Norton

TITLE: Rome
AUTHOR: Matthew Kneale
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster

JACKET DESIGNER: David Litman
ART DIRECTOR: Alison Forner

TITLE: Russian Library series (3 titles): Redemption; Sentimental Tales; The Man Who Couldn't Die
AUTHOR: Friedrich Gorenstein. Translated by Andrew Bromfield; Mikhail Zoshchenko. Translated by Boris Dralyuk; Olga Slavnikova. Translated by Marian Schwartz.
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
ART DIRECTOR: Julia Kushnirsky

TITLE: Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge
AUTHOR: Kimura Yūsuke. Translated by Doug Slaymaker.
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Julia Kushnirsky
ART DIRECTOR: Julia Kushnirsky

TITLE: Salinger Centennial Series
AUTHOR: J.D. Salinger
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company

JACKET DESIGNER: Gregg Kulick
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mario Pulice
ART DIRECTOR: Gregg Kulick

TITLE: Scale and the Incas
AUTHOR: Andrew James Hamilton
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Luke Bulman
JACKET DESIGNER: Luke Bulman
DESIGN FIRM: Luke Bulman

TITLE: Sebastopol
AUTHOR: Emilio Fraia
PUBLISHER: Companhia das letras / Alfaguara

BOOK DESIGNER: Elaine Ramos

TITLE: Self-Portrait with Boy
AUTHOR: Rachel Lyon
PUBLISHER: Scribner

JACKET DESIGNER: Jaya Miceli

TITLE: Shape of Light
AUTHOR: Edited by Simon Baker; Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais; Shoair Mavlian
PUBLISHER: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers

JACKET DESIGNER: Martha Ormiston

TITLE: Signs on the Road of Life
AUTHOR: Gary Leo
PUBLISHER: Self

BOOK DESIGNER: Barbara Kosoff
JACKET DESIGNER: Barbara Kosoff
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Barbara Kosoff
ART DIRECTOR: Barbara Kosoff
DESIGN FIRM: Barbara Kosoff Design + Illustration

TITLE: Slowly We Die
AUTHOR: Emelie Schepp
PUBLISHER: Mira Books

BOOK DESIGNER: Laci Ann
JACKET DESIGNER: Laci Ann
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Erin Craig
ART DIRECTOR: Kathleen Oudit

TITLE: Small Fry
AUTHOR: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic

JACKET DESIGNER: Alison Forner
ART DIRECTOR: Gretchen Mergenthaler

TITLE: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
AUTHOR: Caitlin Doughty
PUBLISHER: n/a

BOOK DESIGNER: Yixue Li
JACKET DESIGNER: Yixue Li
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Yixue Li

TITLE: Sociable
AUTHOR: Rebecca Harrington
PUBLISHER: Doubleday

JACKET DESIGNER: Emily Mahon
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: John Fontana
ART DIRECTOR: Emily Mahon

TITLE: Soft Volcano
AUTHOR: Libby Burton
PUBLISHER: Saturnalia Books

JACKET DESIGNER: Robin Vuchnich
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Robin Vuchnich
DESIGN FIRM: Vuchnich Design

TITLE: Spain
AUTHOR: Caren Beilin
PUBLISHER: Rescue Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Steen Haugsted, Annie Leue
JACKET DESIGNER: Annie Leue
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Annie Leue
ART DIRECTOR: Annie Leue

TITLE: Stolen Time
AUTHOR: Shane Vogel
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Isaac Tobin
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
DESIGN FIRM: The University of Chicago Press