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

2026 Debut Books

  • About
    • Who we are
    • Ways to support
    • Contact
  • Browse
  • Community
    • Goodreads Lists
    • Reading Challenge

06-LGBTQ

Showing 81–100 of 136 resultsSorted by price: high to low

Genre

Age range

Publisher

Imprint

Format(s)

Release Month?

  • Cover for The Greatest Game. A woman with blonde hair stands in front of an African American man as they stare defiantly at each other. They wear sports clothes and their whistles are tangled together. In the background is a soccer field with a goal and soccer ball.

    The Greatest Game

    May 5
  • Cover for Champion of the Rose: Volume 1, showing Rey, a seventeen-year-old trans swordsman in the heat of battle. He's surrounded by sharp swords from all over the world. Rey wears a suit of armor and a large rose in bloom, over his heart. Colourful confetti falls around him. The book's title and author names for Cat Aquino and Dominique Duran are set in metallic gold.

    Champion of the Rose: Volume 1

    July 14
  • 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.

    The Bone Brides

    September 29
  • 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.

    The Third Wish

    September 16
  • Two women, side by side. The first is in a blue Regency dress, holding a fan, while the second is in a red minidress. The backgrounds show the same row of houses, but the scene behind the first woman shows historic scenes and young trees while the trees behind the second woman are much older and the scene more modern.

    The Regency Switch

    February 26
  • A beige background is framed by the brown earth of a grave dotted with stylized human bones. Three adorable black kittens with blue eyes peer over the edges as if looking down on the viewer inside the grave. Text reads The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery, by Kit Gray.

    The Black Cat Detectives

    May 26
  • A dark-blue ocean at night, the rocks spelling out THE COVE. Author and tagline in the sky: Claire Rose. They’ve been waiting for you.

    The Cove

    May 5
  • The scene is a narrow street with row homes lit by street lamp along the left, with brick stoops. The title is in white sans serif: Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane? The subtitle is smaller, in gold: a memoir and a murder investigation. Kate Crane, is in white caps. The blurb at the top says: Beautifully crafted. Crane stirred the embers of a Baltimore cold case everyone else was willing to forget – her father’s. —David Simon.

    What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?

    April 7
  • The cover shows a red door with Celtic designs, and the words THE CAFÉ OF INFINITE DOORS in white over the top. Around the door are black clouds with blue highlights and golden feathers.

    The Café of Infinite Doors

    April 28
  • 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.

    The Forest Bleeds

    October 13
  • A white male tennis player in a white polo shirt and blue shorts leans in for a kiss with a Latino tennis player in a black tank top and black shorts. They are standing in front of the net on a pale green tennis court with fans in the stands behind them and a blue sky with clouds above.

    Thirty Love

    March 10
  • An illustration featuring the large side profile of a young woman with the silhouette of two two figures below standing in an otherworldly landscape with floating rocks. Planets with rings, a starry backdrop, and futuristic clothing add a touch of sci-fi to the image.

    The Celestial Seas

    March 31
  • Cover for The Bloodweaver depicting the main character, Kerick, standing alone at dusk. He holds a glowing ball of magic in his hand and his eyes are closed. Cast in blue light, he's wearing a double-breasted coat with a cloak adorned with a grape and grapeleaf motif. The title and the author's name C. N. Kuster are written in a art-nouveau-style font that the magic loops through.

    The Bloodweaver

    June 23
  • Cover for The Keepers, in tones of green, gold, and black. Centered are two stylized women; the one on the left wears a crown and holds a scepter, with a golden castle behind her. On the left, a figure in a green hood holds grey magic in her hands, standing before an apple orchard. Other imagery includes cats walking on the spokes of a Wheel behind the figures, as well as three cloaked and hooded figures in the foreground above the centered title and the author's name, Sarah Goehkre.

    The Keepers

    June 16
  • Book cover for The Halls of the Dead, with the title in neon yellow and the author's name (S. M. Hallow) in white. The cover depicts a teal-colored skull, and a golden imperial moth whose eye-spot intersects the eye socket of the skull. There are burgandy flowers in the background that look like chrysanethemums.

    The Halls of the Dead

    August 18
  • Cover for Hellbound, showing an unsettling teal illustration of a woman drowning as ghostly hands and chains reach for her from the bottom of the water. The titles and author name, Stephanie Binx, are written in an eerie font.

    Hellbound

    August 25
  • The illustrated cover of Just Ask Elsie by Ari Koontz features a young white girl with blonde hair, standing in the middle of a school hallway and holding a stack of purple magazines that read "Elsie's Puberty Zine." Around her are cut-out doodles of birds and bees, hearts and emojis, and the progress pride flag. In the background, other students stand in front of blue lockers, watching and whispering. The title words are in mismatched fonts, with "Elsie" handwritten in gold sharpie over a piece of purple duct tape. The overall art style is soft-textured but bright, with pastel colors and rounded lines.

    Just Ask Elsie

    June 16
  • The title-focused romantasy/dark fantasy book cover shows THE LURE OF WOLVES AND WHISPERS in holographic foil lettering against a solid black background, with swirls of foil mist interweaving with the haunting figures of ferocious wolves in the same holographic foil.

    The Lure of Wolves and Whispers

    July 7
  • Cover Once Upon A Song by Nadine Bells

    Once Upon A Song

    January 23
  • Two teenage girls in regency attire are cuddling together on a chaise lounge. One is blonde with a blue dress; the other is dark haired and is wearing a slip and a dark green men’s coat.

    The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy

    April 7
Previous Page
1 … 3 4 5 6 7
Next Page
A simple illustration of an open book with 2026 written on the pages.

Follow us on Instagram!

Report a bug/error

Font Resize
High Contrast
Accessibility by WAH
  • Who we are
  • Ways to support debut authors
  • Browse Books
  • Goodreads List (external link)
  • Contact
  • Missing Content
  • Lists
  • New Year, New Author
  • Featured Collections
  • Venues
  • Events
  • User Profile
  • Event Types
  • Random book
  • Submit Event
  • Website Form
  • No cover
  • Event Organizers
  • Books
  • Login
  • Native/Indigenous Heritage Month
  • Register
  • Reading Challenge
  • Goodreads Lists
✕

Notifications