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

2026 Debut Books

August: Back to School

  • The cover of A BARISTA'S GUIDE TO LOVE & LARCENY, featuring a young couple staring at each other. The girl has purple hair in a braid, white skin, and a white sweater with an amethyst necklace. A crow with turquoise feathers sits on the girl's shoulder. The boy has brown hair, tan skin, and a brown sweater. There is a mug of coffee and several bottles on the table where they sit. The backdrop is blue and purple, filled with clouds and stars.
  • The book cover for A House of Vipers by Emma Jackson. It depicts a navy blue boarding school uniform with a viper pin and blood spatter. There is a note tucked into the pocket. A backpack strap can also be seen.
  • A young man with bronze skin and brown curly hair, wearing 18th century clothes smiles up at a taller pirate with brown skin and locs, a blue ribbon tying his hair back. Behind them is a spanish galleon in the sunset, framed by mermaids and a background of a turquoise kasbah trellis. White text reads "A Prince Among Pirates" and below that "Katie Abdou".
  • In the center, beneath banners depicting a rolling pin and a whisk, a girl and a boy stand back to back. Flames emanate around them as paper butterflies fly between them. The paper edges are covered in lit flames.
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  • A stylized book cover with ornate pink borders and gothic flourishes. The large word “Beth” appears at the top in white cursive letters, dripping with blood. Below it, in bold block letters, are the words “IS DEAD.” At the bottom, the author’s name “Katie Bernet” is written in a classic serif font. The design has a dramatic, high-contrast aesthetic with a mix of elegance and horror.
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  • 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.
  • A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley.
  • Cover for Cursed Ever After showing an illustrated vine with green leaves across the entire cover on a black background. There are several motifs scattered across including a compass, a bird, a rose, a dagger, a black cat, and a watch tower. The title and the author’s name, Andy C. Naranjo, is written in an old fashioned font.
  • Cover for Death Card, showing a Black teen girl with box braids holding a tarot card, the Death Card, in front of her face.
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  • Cover for I Was a Teenage Death God showing an illustration of a masculine-presenting teenager in shadow, embracing a vaguely human-shaped entity made of bright colors and light that appear to be disintegrating in their arms. They are surrounded by a flurry of whimsical ghosts with various facial expressions. The title is written in a thick, brightly-colored font and the author's name is scrawled on the sleeve of the teenager's denim jacket.
  • A collection of different ripped papers reading "In Case I Go Missing" on a backdrop of spooky bare trees and sparks from a fire.
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  • 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.
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  • Cover for Last Kiss of Summer, showing a watercolor sunset. The sun is golden yellow and shaped like a heart and the bottom of it is sinking into a turquoise ocean. The tag line at the top reads 'Nothing breaks like a heart' in a light yellow font that matches the light yellow color of the title, which is all lower cased above the heart.
  • Cover for Last to Leave, showing a holographic image of a mansion, in orange and teal hues with a variety of items that could be used as murder weapons hovering in front of the mansion. All holographic images seem to be projecting from a phone at the base of the cover, lying on it's side and facing up. The author's name, Teresa Richards, is written on the edge of the phone. The title, Last to Leave, is in a dark purple hand-lettered font that playfully mimics 1920's flapper style. A tagline at the top of the cover reads: Murder mystery game. 1920's theme. Which streamer will earn the most fans?
  • The book cover depicts a sunset of blended pink, blue, and orange behind a small town nestled in the mountains. A teenage girl and boy are featured in the center standing on the home plate of a baseball field, surrounded by the glowing stadium lights. He stands behind her, his hands on her waist as she grips a baseball bat as if ready to take a turn in the box. Both look at each other lovingly. The title is written in loopy white text above the main characters, and the author’s name is written in pink near the bottom of the image.
  • A dark blue, starry cover for MIDNIGHT ON THE CELESTIAL by Julia Alexandra. A black cruise ship surrounded by skulls, gold filigree, and red aerial silks.
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  • In the bottom left and right are two temples, and both are foregrounded by blue and red flames. PRODIGAL TIGER is in the center of the cover. There are flames reaching up all across the cover in shades of blue, red, pink, orange, and green. A Malaysian-Chinese girl stands in the top center of the cover, accompanied by a white blue and white tiger. At the top is Samantha Chong's name.
  • Colorful dots make up title and a girl with long brown hair is painting the letter O. She is holding an easel. Behind her is a yellow Labrador with his tongue hanging out.
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  • Cover for Smash or Pass by Birdie Schae, showing an illustration of two girls kissing. They are holding a beach volleyball in front of their faces. The background is a bright blue sky.
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  • A boy and a girl run in a cloud of purple mist, with a yellow dragon looming overhead, against a setting of misty mountains, rivers, dandelions, and a full moon.
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  • A blue book cover with a blue and white striped volleyball and a 20-sided die with blue and white sides. It is titled "Spikes, Dice, & Other Variables" by Harper Kinsley. A diagonal banner reads "Cover Not Final."
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  • A glowing red and white neon eyeball shines in the center, with the book title arched above and below in neon lettering. The background is an eerie frozen blue lake, with yellow roses trapped beneath the ice. The tagline at the bottom warns: Some secrets should stay in the past.
  • Cover for That Which Feeds Us, showing a girl with short curly hair sitting next to a green wall. Persimmon tree branches, full of ripe and rotting fruit, are growing out of the wall behind the girl and are piercing her skin. There are moths on top of the tattoo sleeves covering her arms and plumeria flower buds unfolding near her face. The book title and author's name, Keala Kendall, are written in a bold font.
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  • Full moon, ruined church walls, two boys on the brink of a kiss that will change their lives.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A white cabin sits on a black background with a white ground that bleeds into dripping red. White birch trees with eyes surround the cabin. In white text, the title surrounds the cabin and trees saying: THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. In red text at the top right is a tagline that says: Everyone has a monstrous side... In red text on the bottom left is the author's name: Christina Ferko. A red slash of color with a white fire symbol is centered on the left side of the cover signifying the book as part of Sourcebooks Fire's Midnight Reads line.
  • A girl and boy lean outside a window at a night sky, wisteria flowers carried by wind.
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  • The cover of the Lustrous Dark: The silhouette of a girl facing the entrance to a cave of luminous crystal pillars that swirl with pink, blue, and purple. She is surrounded by a dark, foreboding forest.
  • Cover for The Saw Mouth, showing a long black ethereal monster with dripping teeth looming behind a car driving down a country road framed by dead trees reaching over it. The background is orange and the monster is black.
  • A book cover that shows poloraids of three girls with brown skin in bright clothing appearing in front of different locations. The polaroids sit atop a scrapbook page of various patterns.
  • 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.
  • A book cover in turquoise, blue, and purple depicting a girl facing away with Tudor-style hair and dress, and arms slightly raised. Waves rise and crash around her. There is ocean and a dark rocky island in the background. The cover features the book title, Tidespeaker, and the author name, Sadie Turner.
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  • Cover for We've Hit Turbulence. Illustrated characters of a tall white man with short brown hair and a shorter woman with curly dark brown hair stand back to back, looking over their shoulders at each other. Both are wearing flower leis and have rolling suitcases next to them. They stand on a small island with white sand set in a blue ocean with a pink sunset sky behind them.
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  • Two characters stand shoulder to shoulder smirking at each other. The girl has her arms crossed in a short black lace dress with fingerless gloves. Her black hair is braided into buns at the nape of her neck. The boy has chin length black hair and olive skin. He's wearing a maroon kitesurfing shirt and jeans. They stand in front of a large wrought iron gate covered in vines outside a dark turreted mansion. The title covers the image: You're Dead to Me Reed Walker. Above it is the tag line: They'd kill each other. If they weren't already dead.
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