Jane Smiley's new novel, Some Luck (out in October), is the clearest distillation of the trend: cornfield, broad blue sky, barn.
![Some Luck](e9d4d077ddf7c30e0e23c195902a77c3dad2fb05.jpeg?w=335&h=500)
Another cornfield, another clear-blue sky: Flight 232 (out in July).
![Flight 232](1dc360982e2245955c4dd01523a5d8d109b35b4f.jpeg?w=360&h=548)
More fields—not corn this time: The Road Back to Sweetgrass (September).
![The Road Back to Sweetgrass](e2b15f131bd7df43b22b793c19da62851560c4ba.jpeg?w=388&h=600)
A more crowded cover, Keeping the Bees (paperback issued this past May), keeps the green-field-blue-sky combo.
![Keeping the Bees](7774b0125f36676c9137f055a212b53629fe2351.jpeg?w=360&h=544)
And here's the parenting book version: Freeing Your Child From Anxiety (reissued in July).
![Freeing Your Child from Anxiety](dde0851f8e8c670d7630fc8c114ca301611b062b.jpeg?w=324&h=500)
Nora Roberts' The Fall of Shane Mackade (July), swaps the early-morning filter for a dusty dusk.
![The Fall of Shane Mackade](743df4af4f2ee9d2c2f398ace49e0c52bc81526e.jpeg?w=359&h=518)
Wildflowers instead of cornstalks on Marilynne Robinson's Lila (October).
![Lila](b7cee0461cd20fdc21b988171303216105ada683.jpeg?w=360&h=540)
A little perspective: Jo-Ann Mapson's Solomon's Oak (reissued in paperback this year) has the field in the distance.
![Solomon's Oak](3b19825de4eae2f1431e082604466474a9d52473.jpeg?w=360&h=541)