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
Thirteen Reasons Why — hardcover jacket
Back of the jacket featured a map like one described in the novel
Endsheets of suburbia — inside back printed with metallic PMS
Endsheets (inside back)
!0th Anniversary Special Edition