Thirteen Reasons Why

YA fiction • Penguin Young Readers / Razorbill

My role 🛠️

• Designer, Photo researcher

What was special 💎

• Hardcover jacket was double-sided — reverse side featured a map I created to be like the corny small-town local ad/map Hannah writes on, as described in the book

• Special end sheets — inverted photos of suburbia printed with PMS metallic

Results 🎉

• New York Times bestseller list for 3+ years

• Translated into 37 languages

• Third-most banned book in the United States between 2010 and 2019

• Turned into a 2017 Netflix series starring Katherine Langford and Dylan Minnette

• Awards include:

  • 2009 – Writing Conference's Literature Festival

  • 2008 – Best Books for Young Adults YALSA

  • 2008 – Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers YALSA

  • 2008 – Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults YALSA

  • 2008 – California Book Award silver medal – Young Adult

  • 2009 – International Reading Association Young Adults' Choice list

  • 2010 – South Carolina Young Adult Book Award winner

  • 2013 – Abraham Lincoln Award winner