A simple illustration of an open book with 2026 written on the pages.

2026 Debut Books

  • Cover image for Fire Power, a novel by Mir Benitz. Image shows two people in racing gear, holding their helmets in front of them—one is a blonde-haired woman in a red suit with embroidered patches; the other is a dark-haired man in a black and gold suit with a family coat of arms on the chest. Behind the title is a pair of red dragon's wings.
    2025-09-01
  • Cover for The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, showing a bright blue sky with a hint of an Oxford college at the bottom. A man and woman's sillouhettes stand beside the title with a fountain pen spilling red ink stabbing the letters.
    2025-09-01
  • Cover for Bad Things Happened Here, showing a biracial boy with light hair holding a flashlight, which is pointing at an abandoned building. There’s a woman with glowing eyes standing in one of the windows. In the background there’s a south Asian girl’s face partially covered by banana leaves. She looks worried. The book title is in a creepy font in orange.
    2025-09-01
  • Cover for 72 Hours Of You: two teenagers standing in the middle of New York City. Hot pink steaks in a time lapse effect blurt past them as they embrace.
    2025-09-01
  • Cover for The Witch of the Dark Wood, showing a large tree with a young girl on the left side, and a witch with a nature mask and cloak on the right side. The atmosphere is misty. The book title and author name are in the trunk of the tree in eerie font.
    2025-09-01
  • A sea-green book cover with a woman sitting at the edge of a rocky shore. She has one foot in the water, and a seal lifts its head above the water near where she sits. Title reads "The Sea-Glass Shore." Author name reads "Julie Salmon Kelleher." A blurb at the top reads: "A book as beautiful and haunting as the coast it inhabits.--Jared Pechaček." A blurb in the water reads: "A brilliant swim--Lidia Yuknavitch."
    2025-09-01
  • Cover of THE PATRON SAINT OF WHITE MENAGERIES by Lauren T. Davila. It is a dark cover, featuring a tan woman's hand behind the white text. She is grasping a white peacock feather and there are orange, purple, and red flowers surrounding her and the feather.
    2025-09-01
  • Cover for The Last Telegram of Mrs. Hudson, showing an illustrated Victorian London street with black lampposts and horse-drawn carriage against a graduated vibrant blue background. There are the illustrated silhouettes of two women in long, ornate Victorian dresses in the middle. The book title is in bold white font, and the author's name is in light pink, as are other details on the cover such as the lights of the lampposts. Black and light blue envelopes swirl across the scene, and one of the women is holding a solitary pink envelope.
    2025-09-03
  • Cover of The Mess That Made Them by Ryan T. Pozzi.
    2025-09-03
  • The cover of With All My Haunted Heart has vivid colors and shows two girls kissing in front of a large Victorian house with a bright purple night sky above. The title is at the top in light yellow decorative font.
    2025-09-08
  • Cover for Tethered, showing an illustrated gothic castle in a window surrounded by a stone arch wrapped by roses. The book title, Tethered, is written in a whimsical font, as is the author's name, Elayna R. Gallea.
    2025-09-08
  • Cover for Whale Fall, showing an illustration of an orca from above the water. In the water's ripples, there is the shadow of a human being. The book title and author's name appear in block font.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover of Spells to Mend Broken Hearts by Marissa Macy. The design shows a pink-orange background with sparkles, tarot cards, crystals, and a denim tote bag with tarot cards coming out of it. The bag has charms and a black cat keychain.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for Beneath the Same Round Moon: A Mooncake Festival Story, showing family members around a yellow moon. Main character is wearing yellow and red, and she's holding a mooncake. Written by Jasmine Fang and illustrated by Rong Pham and Vinh Nguyen.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for We Run the Night, showing an illustrated black girl looking afraid and two ghostly figures of a boy and a girl staring down at her, on a background of a tree with branches growing through the ghostly figures. The book title and author’s name, Peace Mbengei are written in yellow font.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for The Fire Walker, showing two illustrated characters - Appa and his son Velan- and a temple Kovil gopuram. The characters are wearing traditional shirts and are against a blue and magenta twilight background, with stars in the sky. Fiery sparks and the stars glow the scene. The book’s title, the author’s name, Ainkaran Sivaaji, and the illustrator’s name, N. Dejeshwini, are written in a bright artistic font.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for Dead Boys Club, showing an illustration of two boys standing in front of a car with a mountainous National Park in the backdrop. There is a fire tower in the distance. The boy on the left has dark brown hair and is dressed in punk fashion. The boy on the right is pale with red hair and is dressed in a green shirt and cargo pants.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for Silk and Sensibility, showing an illustration of pink plum blossoms and two blue swallows on a white background. The book title and author's name, Mengxi Seeley, are written in a simple serif font.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for THE STARGAZERS, showing a blue-haired female astronaut in a background of stars and bioluminescent magical flowers with the book title and author name on the front in a fantasy font.
    2025-09-15
  • Cover for Spikes, Dice and Other Variables. Two teenagers sitting in a classroom with a purple and yellow color scheme. On the left, a white girl with long, wavy blonde hair sits cross-legged on a yellow desk, wearing a teal hoodie. She is holding a volleyball and gazing thoughtfully at the boy to her right. On the right, a white boy with tousled brown hair and black-rimmed glasses is dressed in a red sweater. He is smiling, looking at the girl The title "SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES" is prominently featured at the top in bold, yellow lettering. Below this, "Harper Kinsley" appears in the bottom left corner.
    2025-09-15
  • A purple background with a city skyline. In the middle is a mosque-like building from which a giant skyscraper reaches into the clouds. Surrounding the skyscraper is the title in bright orange: The Third Wish. Between the title, smaller white letters say: What would you wish for? And what would you give up to win? By T. E. Forest.
    2025-09-16
  • Cover for Fire and Death, showing a gilded bronze fire with cracks and blue symbols coming out of it, with fire underneath. ‘Through shadows and sunlight, everything was hiding. The truth hadn’t changed. But I did’ is written at the top. The title is written in semi-dramatic font, and this is book one of the Fire and Water series.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for Witch Daughter showing a beautiful woman on a bright pink background. She is wearing a beaded blue and green dress, an ancient Bactrian crown, and a necklace with a Faravahar pendant.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for Death in Verse, showing an illustrated girl with rusty red hair and wearing a dress and black sweater standing in a library and holding a book. Her hand touches the pages and ink flows up into the library, where pages swirl around the room. Standing before her is a nonbinary Chinese person in a coat and pants watching her. Beyond the library through the window, rain falls on a forest landscape. The book title and author's name are written in a bold font in all capitalized letters.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for the novel Ghost Orchid, showing an evening swamp scene with a shack on stilts standing in the swamp in the background, its windows glowing with light. A heron wades across the swamp in the foreground, and the scene is framed by mossy trees.
    2025-09-22
  • A male ghost facing a woman in front of a giant window in a Manhattan apartment, title text reads "You're the One That I Haunt" by Katie Jung.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for A Killer for Christmas by Kim Harrington shows a mug of hot chocolate with steam rising out of it in the shape of a skull. Design and title treatment are in red and green.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm, showing a green wallpaper being ripped away by a hand to reveal a different, yellow flowery wallpaper underneath. There is a sprinkling of salt on the green wall, and blood drips down the letters of the title.
    2025-09-22
  • A stylized black haunted house against a yellow and red backdrop. Atop the house’s roof are silhouettes of a female vampire surrounded by bats, a cat with tentacles ominously hovering around it, and a short hooded figure with a shovel. In the foreground a zombie fist with stitches bursts defiantly from the ground. The title THE HENCHPERSON’S GUIDE TO UNIONIZING are splashed across the house in bold red and yellow letters, while the author’s name MARSHALL J. MOORE is written in a similar font across the bottom of the book. The book has sprayed edges which continue the red-yellow cover theme, with the addition of white lightning bolts near the top and a mysterious one-eyed creature at the bottom.
    2025-09-22
  • A silhouette of a woman looking into a three-way mirror with two reflections looking back at her. Half is dark blue with teal accents. The other half is teal with dark blue accents. Over the illustration in yellow is the title: The Fractured Life of Lucy Hughes: A Novel" and the name of the author: Annie Morgan.
    2025-09-22
  • Female professor with dark red hair sitting on desk staring into eyes of male professor who is standing, leaning against desk with arms crossed over chest, sleeves rolled up exposing delicious forearms and staring back at female professor. Lots of tension. Stack of books between them on the desk. Post-its on the white board behind them. Title Love Between the Lectures is in dark pink script font, author Christie Curry's name is in white block font at the bottom. Background of book is pale yellow.
    2025-09-22
  • Cover for In the Woods They Wait, showing animal eyes hiding behind foliage on a dark background. The title and author's name are in large yellow font.
    2025-09-22
  • A woman wearing a sultry, low-back green satin dress is facing away. There are pink flowers lining the book with a gold serif font. There is a tag line that says, "Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest..."
    2025-09-24
  • Cover for Socks and Secret Quests, showing four preteens holding various quest weapons standing in front of a cozy-looking cottage with light shining out of the windows. The girl in the front holds knitting needles and a ball of yarn. The book title is in gold letters.
    2025-09-29
  • Cover for Where the Light Shines In shows a young teen girl in a blue hoodie and red Converse sneakers standing on a beach facing out to the sea. In the distance, a white-and-green ferryboat can be seen passing by. At the girl's feet is a black-and-white Boston Terrier. A stormy, late-afternoon sky is overhead, with pinkish-orange rays of sun breaking through the clouds. The title font is rendered in swirly, variegated golden letters.
    2025-09-29
  • Cover for Jenny Will Eat You Now. The title is set in individual tiles on the wall of a condemned train station, splattered with scum and blood stains. Jenny's green, webbed hand leaves claw marks along the wall. Smaller tiles discolored with age sit on top of the title.
    2025-09-29
  • Cover for We, the Missing showing an illustration of a girl surrounded in wings that are blue/green/brown in color. The girl is disappearing into the feathers. The title goes down the front in a serif font with the name of the author at the bottom.
    2025-09-29
  • Illustrated cover for Love Never Dies, featuring two skeletons facing each other, with white flowers above their skulls, inside a bright red cameo shape on a black background. The border of the cameo features popcorn buckets, film reels, headstones, and skulls.
    2025-09-29
  • Book cover for From Beijing, With Love by Bei Lin, showing an illustration of two men holding hands with the Great Wall of China in the backdrop. The book title is written in a cursive font. The author name, Bei Lin, is on the bottom of the illustration.
    2025-09-29
  • Cover for THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward. One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage. The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal. In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit. Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines. Very moody and atmospheric. The book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.
    2025-09-29

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