As any reader who has spent most of 2020 in front of a screen knows, there’s something magical about holding a physical book in your hands — turning the pages, smelling the scent of fresh ink, and, not least, gazing at a stunning cover. From the whimsical to the poignant, here are twenty book covers from the past year that will stay with you as long as the words inside.
The Tunnel by A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
Modern Kosher: Global Flavors, New Traditions by Michael Aaron Gardiner
To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Too Far From Home by Naomi Shmuel, illustrated by Avi Katz
The Last Interview: A Novel by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, illustrated by Maira Kalman
The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times by Tablet Magazine, illustrated by Shai Azoulay
The Drive by Yair Assulin, translated by Jessica Cohen
All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
The Eight Knights of Hanukkah by Leslie Kimmelman, illustrated by Galia Bernstein
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth by Benjamin Taylor
It’s My Life by Stacie Ramey
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale by Karen Rostoker-Gruber, illustrated by Kristina Swarner
