Week 10 Recap: Somebody Wins
Somebody Should Do Something claims the top spot with clear intent
Somebody Should Do Something from The MIT Press rose to the challenge and took Week 10 with conviction.
It resonated from the start—voters gravitated to its punchy title, conceptual clarity, and clean graphic execution. Whether you're ready to change the world or just organize your bookshelf, this one packed visual and thematic power.
Week 10 Winner: Somebody Should Do Something by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly
Congrats to the authors and the team at The MIT Press for their well-earned win!
Week 11: Read This and Call Me in the Morning
This week’s covers channel the aesthetics of medicine—clean lines, capsules, blister packs, and diagnostic dread. Side effects may include staring, curiosity, and an inexplicable urge to read more.
- Magic Can't Save Us by Josh Denslow (UNO Press, May 2, 2025): In these absurd, hilarious stories, magical creatures make terrible therapists, and doomed relationships fizzle with glorious weirdness.
- Happy Bad by Delaney Nolan (Astra House, Oct 14, 2025): A care worker, a blackout, a caravan of unruly girls—and a darkly comic, scorching road novel through a climate-ravaged South.
- Doctored by Charles Piller (Atria/One Signal, Feb 4, 2025): A whistleblower exposes decades of Alzheimer’s research fraud in this gripping work of investigative journalism. Big Pharma, beware.
- No Such Thing as Normal by Marieke Bigg (Profile Books, May 22, 2025): A sharp critique of psychiatry’s chemical fixation and the industry that thrives on our diagnoses. Brave, lucid, and necessary.
Week 11 Lineup
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