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

2026 Debut Books

  • Cover for Kill Your Darlings, showing an illustrated teenage girl, Thulasi, who is horrified when monsters appear to coming from her open book. She is shadowed above by the villain, Addison Greer, wearing a menacing smile, and surrounded by a contingent of monsters, including a vampire, a harpy and a howling dog.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for The Finalist, showing a small ballerina in costume, in an open grey-scale palm, against a red and black background.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches, showing an illustrated gothic window with creeping vines around it and a tree branch with moss hanging from it above the window. Three women stand together facing one another with a candlelight illuminating their faces. The book title and author's name, Katie Ortiz, are written in a bold font.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Engineering a Love Story, showing a blurred image of woman in sunglasses with a pixelated, tech-looking scarf. The title and author's name are written in a bold, blocky font.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Strange Lights showing an illustrated night scene of a campfire by a Winnebago with pine trees in the background. A man in a sweater and jeans and a young child with long hair, rainboots, a backpack stand next to the campfire, both facing away. A third person is visible lounging on the top of the Winnebago, also facing away. Two round roomba style vacuums fly through the air. The title is written in an illustrated font of stars at the top of the image and the authors' name, Mira Gonzalez, is written in slanting font at the base of the image. The color scheme is neon pink, orange, and blue with green.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for The House Built on Alligator Bones, showing an illustrated alligator at the top of the page, and an old mansion on the bottom of the page. A woman steps toward the house's front steps.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Portrait of a Haunting, showing a dark haired woman wearing sunglasses. In the reflection of the sunglasses, a ghostly hand appears to be reaching for her. The book typeset drips down the page like blood.
    2025-10-06
  • A South Asian woman is featured in the center wearing a pink sparkly outfit with two men standing on either side of her. One with blonde hair in a grey suit and the other with black hair in a traditional South Asian kurta top. The background is bright pink, and the title font is white.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Winter's Teeth, showing foliage and flowers with antlers on a blue-gray wash background. The book title and author's name, R. A. Betzer, are written in bold font, as well as the tagline: Don't go into the woods.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Once, Again, Always, showing an illustration of an auburn-haired woman and a blond-haired man sitting on opposite sides of a deep blue, antique sofa. The woman looks uncertain, clutching a book. The man looks apprehensive, running a hand through his hair. A fluffy white cat sits between them. Above them, the book title is written in a dark blue script, and below them, the author's name, Amanda Gayle, is written in a light blue sans-serif font. In the background of the scene sit several stacks of books and bookshelves.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for My Violent Muse, showing classic painting of two women inside art-work frame upon black background. One woman is kissing the other on the head, the other woman is staring straight ahead. The book title is written in gothic light pink font, and the author name is written in dark pink cursive font.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover of The Memory of Borrowed Books shows an arched doorway looking into a library with rows of shelves leading out infinitely. The title and author name are written in a plain white font.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for Where the Bones Took Root, featuring a cloaked young woman at the center. She has dark brown hair and green eyes. She holds a dagger in one hand and a necklace with a finger bone pendant in the other. Green magic crackles around the hand holding the bone, encircling the peridot ring she wears. There is also a leatherbound spellbook hanging from her belt. The background is a dark, moonlit forest with a turreted castle in the distance. On either side of the girl, there are skeletons and glowing blue mushrooms.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover for The Heresy of Thieves, showing a painterly illustrated manticore with pink and gold stylized wings, roaring defiantly before a crowd of armed soldiers. In the background, a city atop a mountain glistens with firelight. The book title and author's name are written in a stylized heavy display font in white.
    2025-10-06
  • Cover of A Very Merry Detour: A Christmas Romance by Court Behr. In a snowy mountain landscape, two women ice skate on a frozen lake. One woman catches the other in a dramatic, romantic dip as they gaze at each other, framed by snow-covered pine trees.
    2025-10-13
  • Cover for The Forest Bleeds, showing an illustrated and haunting anatomical heart comprised of skeletal bones, blooming red and yellow flowers, and withered leaves on a black background. The book title and the author's name, Rachel Kitch, are written in a bold white font.
    2025-10-13
  • Cover for Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder showing a graphic of two women, one blonde and one brunette, facing a gallery wall. In the frames on the wall are a victorian woman, bottle of poison, upside down pineapple, lily pads, a chalk outline of a body, and the Liberty Bell.
    2025-10-13
  • Cover for The Soul Thief. A man with dark hair wearing a white hat and a woman with dark, curly hair, glasses, a red bandana, and tattoos stand back-to-back in a swirl of green, black, and red magic. A city glows behind them and a shadow looms over them. White text in a slashing font reads "The Soul Thief" and "Molly Haniszewski."
    2025-10-13
  • Cover for Please Enjoy Your Stay, a gothic mystery by Tara Goedjen, coming out in October 2026, showing a European castle-turned-hotel, shrouded in fog, with a single light on. A room key hangs from the bold, dark pink title font.
    2025-10-13
  • US Cover for Mothsblood, featuring an illustrated purple iron wrought gate over avdark background. One door stands ajar. Golden moths flutter out, framing the title MOTHSBLOOD, and the author's name, Lynn D. Jung.
    2025-10-13
  • Cover for Another Name for Red, showing a forest, a blue sky, and a redness spreading across the bottom of the forest. The book title takes up most of the cover, and the red silhouettes of a woman and a dog walk through letters of the title.
    2025-10-13
  • I Am the Devouring Dark, showing a moonlit-hand holding a bleeding heard in front of a moody, teal forest. Tag line 'Lose her heart...or devour his' Kimberly Lynn Hanson.
    2025-10-15
  • Picture of Smile for the Camera's cover: Emilyn and Jase are hugging with Emilyn’s hand on Jase’s chest Jase’s nose on Emilyn’s forehead. There are Sampaguitas (the national flower of the Philippines 🇵🇭) and doodles of a camera, music notes, and sunflowers. It’s yellow with the Evernight Teen logo on the top left corner.
    2025-10-16
  • Cover for Now That We Don't Talk, featuring a couple sitting on the floor of a cozy ski lodge, in an embrace, as it snows outside. There is a menorah on a table, and a fireplace lighting up the room.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for The Christmas Curse, showing a woman tangled in Christmas lights and a man putting out a Christmas tree fire.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for Last Night I Dreamed of Home, showing an illustrated girl with pink hair opposite a boy with dark blue hair, juxtaposed against a background of the Toronto skyline and an Asian night market.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for Lethal Kiss, showing a silhouetted face lifted by a monstrous hand in profile against a background a red roses and twisting vines. The book title and author’s name (Taylor Grothe) are in chartreuse serif font.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for Succubus: A Love Story, showing the title in white cursive with little devil horns and a tail over a background that shows a street with houses on it and a sunset sky and autumnal trees.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for Beneath the Edelweiss by Elizabeth Noel. The cover is split into a lower and upper section. The upper section shows a mountain scenes with two figures moving toward the peaks and the lower shows mountain herbs and a hand drawn edelweiss with notes around it.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for Enchanted Village, showing an illustration of a village covered in snow with a castle-style school up above. Small dragons fly through the sky. A pub with a sign that says "Toasty Owl" is featured prominently.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover the The Haunting of Lavender House, showing a white woman with shoulder-length dark hair looking out from the window of a house. The house has teal-green shutters, and the wall around it is also teal-green. The woman is wearing a lavender colored dress and she is looking over her shoulder at the viewer. In her hands, she is holding a bundle of lavender. Behind her, a dark silhouette of a person looms. The area around her, in the house, is colored an ominous bright red. Along the top and bottom of the cover are embroidered vines and flowers, resembling lavender. The book title is written in a bold, white font.
    2025-10-20
  • Cover for The White North Has Thy Bones, showing a small historical tallship on the sea, surrounded by icebergs. The northern lights is over it, in shades of blue and green. The title is written in chilling, handwritten font.
    2025-10-22
  • Cover for Spellwright, showing an illustrated a male magician on the left (wearing a blue shirt) and a female spellwright on the right (wearing a pink sweater) and between them glows golden magic. They are standing in front of a shelf with books. The book title, Spellwright, and the author's name, Heather Kassner, are written in a whimsical font on a long ribbon-like scroll of paper.
    2025-10-27
  • Cover for Rage of the Wiled, showing atmospheric background with dense, shadowy blue-green foliage bordered in metallic gold vines. From the top dangles a gold spider. A gold fox is centered beneath the large serif title: Rage of the Wiled. Revey Galaer is centered at the cover's bottom.
    2025-10-27
  • Cover for The Jewel of Corlivo, which has a red-orange marbled background. On that background is an illustrated shrine-like opening, flanked by fluted columns, in a deep teal. Through the opening of the shrine can be seen a landcape of cliffs with a Byzantine-style building atop them. There's a red-orange sunset in the background. Superimposed on the landscape is a constellation in the shape of a woman holding a flower. The book title and author's name, Kathleen Carr Foster, are written in white in a serif font..
    2025-10-27
  • Cover for The Stolen Women: A Novel by Alysandra Dutton, which is a moody blue with two orange vector illustration silhouettes of Roman women reaching and swooning, evoking paintings of the Sabine women from the past.
    2025-10-27
  • Cover for Fleet of Wonders, showing an ornate ship-of-the-line on tossing seas against a sunrise. Surrounding the rising sun is a decorative circular gold motif reminiscent of a compass or a clock; toward the top of the cover, this gold motif connects with a decorative rectangular frame for the cover, adorned with three gold-outlined blue and purple Atropa belladonna flowers. Sea hawks swoop through the air, silhouetted by the sun.
    2025-10-27
  • Cover for FUNCLES, showing a cute and brightly illustrated neighborhood building that is bustling with life. There is a boy on the third level smiling and looking down at all the uncles he sees in his community. The book title is written in a green stylistic font while the author and illustrator's names are presented below the title.
    2025-11-03
  • Illustrated book cover for "The Tinsel Twist" by Rosie J. Potter, showing a snowy landscape with pine trees and a curvy road. A small town sits in the background with a plane flying over. In the middle ground, a van has run off the road into a snowbank. In the foreground a couple in winter clothes hold hands. The title is wrapped in Christmas lights with a cat sitting on top of the text.
    2025-11-03
  • Cover for There Used to Be People Here, showing a starry night sky with a red streaked comet across it. A car with bright headlights sits on the road beneath the title. The book title and the author’s name are written in a bold, large cap font.
    2025-11-03
  • Book cover for The Art of Living Forever by A. T. Rainach. An ornate black-and-gold design features tall Gothic columns, decorative gold filigree, white and pink flowers, and an elaborate cream, black, and gold masquerade mask. A small gold pendant hangs above the mask. Large stylized silver lettering displays the title against the dark background.
    2025-11-03
  • Cover for A Drop of Color, showing a Nigerian-American girl looking over her shoulder surrounded by vibrant colors. The girl has rich, dark brown skin, gold earrings, and black hair. The book title and author's name are written with a paintstroke font.
    2025-11-03
  • Cover for Cut to the Ending, showing a M/F illustrated couple embracing against a blue background. She is a white woman with red hair wearing a burgundy shirt, brown skirt, and purple tights and is holding his face. He is a white man with brown hair wearing jeans and a flannel with a robed action figure in his shirt pocket. The book title and author's name (Maria Millage) written in yellow font.
    2025-11-03
  • Cover for Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice, showing an image of a woman in a hanfu with butterflies crawling up her neck and covering her face. There is a snake hidden in her hair ornaments and a pig carved onto the jade pendant at her neck. There is a fisherman featured on the hanfu.
    2025-11-10
  • Cover for An Embodiment of Souls by Julia Laurel. The illustration depicts a Gilded Age city at night lit by lanterns, the moon and stars. Intricate architecture transitions into a more austere brick building with red accents, and within the alcoves of the building are skeletons and the abstract forms of human bodies controlled by outstretched hands. Bones and skulls adorn the ground.
    2025-11-10
  • Cover for Family Language, showing the title first all in International Phonetic Alphabet, then in a mix of IPA and regular script, with the addition of a young boy's profile where a schwa should be, and then written clearly "family language." The words "A Novel" appear at the top, and at the bottom is the author's name, Nicole Nelson.
    2025-11-10
  • The cover shows a young girl swimming in the ocean, her body like a shadow. She is red-haired. There are vibrant pink and orange coral reef beneath her. Above her is the watery shape of a woman representing Moana, the ocean. Moana wraps the young girl in her arms. Moana's body is all blue, made of water, fish, waves, and bubbles. In the center is the title of the book in thin, gold letters: Salt Water Blood. The author's name, Manuia Heinrich, is written in white at the bottom of the cover.
    2025-11-17
  • Cover for Love Witches and Wahala, featuring an illustrated bakery against a purple and blue sparkly background. There's also an illustration of a black female with braids dressed in an Ankara gown holding a bowl of puff-puff on the left, and another illustration of a black male with locs dressed in a light grey jacket and blue pants holding a blueprint.
    2025-11-17
  • Cover for A World Apart, showing two men reaching towards each other without touching, with a scene of Victorian London in the background. The colours are vibrant red, blue, and purple with gold leaf accents. The book title and the author's name, Meghan Nesmith, are written in ornate font.
    2025-11-17
  • Cover for The Love Code, a STEM romance novel by Connie Kitson, featuring an illustration of a young man and woman, dressed in office work attire, standing back-to-back, holding their own laptops, looking back at each other. The book title is written in large, white, capitalised block letters, on a pink background.
    2025-11-17
  • Cover for Mr. Mendlebee's Pandimensional Literary Repository (and Yarn), featuring a black cat, a ball of red yarn, and a blurb from Sarah Beth Durst.
    2025-11-17
  • Cover for Thunderstruck by Lissa Layland, with the title in hot pink font. The cover illustration features one woman and two men holding hands, with lightning on top of a purple background. The woman has brown hair. One man is wearing a white collared shirt and glasses, and has black hair. The other man wears a flannel shirt, and has red hair.
    2025-11-17
  • A book cover featuring two characters, a handsome human wizard with his arm around a smaller gray-skinned person with pointed ears and dark hair. There's a weenie dog at their feet and wyverns flying in the air.
    2025-11-24
  • Cover for Veiled in Shadow, which shows a woman in a blue dress with red hair standing in a doorway of the interior of a fancy train car. A man in a blue military type coat and dark hair stands facing her though he's not perfectly clear. The door frame contains two silver birds and a bottle.
    2025-12-01
  • A book cover that is purple with wisps of gold and pink. Atop grass are two black silhouettes of women with a golden tether wrapping around them. Pink text says: WAXING AND WANING. Above that is an eclipse.
    2025-12-01
  • Young woman with flowing hair and prayer beads is dressed in orange, with a skirt made of segments of an orange. The people dance joyfully in her skirt. She reaches up, as if to pick an orange from a tree. Thorns from the roots of the tree attack the bottom of her skirt. The background is very dark so the atmosphere is both joyful and sinister.
    2025-12-08

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