In the Shadow of the Banyan

Book cover: author name and title in red serif type over a yellow background of an orange watercolor of a banyan tree
Vaddey
Ratner

How We Became Human

Book cover with title and author name over an aerial shot of three native american dancers in eagle costumes moving in a line from right to left
Joy
Harjo

Everything I Never Told You

Book cover with brushed white lettering for title and author name against an aerial view of deep blue water with a women swimming
Celeste
Ng

Gilead

Book cover with title and author in black type again a background of faded panels of a wooden door
Marilynne
Robinson

Citizen: An American Lyric

White book cover with title and author in bold black type with a hood place in the top center. Also a seal with National Book Award Finalist
Claudia
Rankine

Brother, I'm Dying

Pael yellow book cover with author name in brown and title in green, will a very positive blurb and a seal noting the book won the NBCC prize fo autobiography
Edwidge
Danticat

Book of Hours

Dark organge book cover with author name and title and an illustration of a single eye with several tear running down the page
Kevin
Young

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried book cover with author name and book title  with a blurred image of soldiers carrying their weapons through a forest
Tim
O'Brien

In the Time of the Butterflies

Book cover with author name and book title and image of a a butterfly at the bottom of a mason jar
Julia
Alvarez

A Wizard of Earthsea

Large elaborate typeface for title and author and an illustration of a menacing eagle flying right towards the reader over a blue forbidding landscape
Ursula K.
Le Guin