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

2026 Debut Books

August: Back to School

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • A boy in profile view, the focus zoomed in on his head and shoulders as he falls against a teal background. The boy has his eyes closed, with pale skin and dark brown hair that seems to ripple as he falls. Other items fall around him: a microphone, newspapers (including one that reads, MOTHER POISONS HER SON), and a pillbox with pills falling out. The whole scene has a sort of glitched out quality to it, with portions of Alex and the falling items blurring into rainbow static.
  • Cover for All Her Ghosts by Cynthia Prith showing a ghostly sprig of asphodel and a cold blue mist under the swirling font All Her Ghosts.
  • Cover for All the Scattered Stars, showing a dark green background with a predominate golden koru done in a distressed style. An intricate gold border of lines, dots, and swirls frames the edges. The title is spelled out in a bold, golden font and the author's name, Via Luino, appears at the top.
  • 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.
  • A yellow background with two teen girls side-eyeing each other over their shoulders. Between them is the title, As Long As You Loathe Me, in pink letters with flames coming off them. Tagline: Bring down the cheerleader. Just don't fall in love with her. At the bottom: Author of Match Me If You Can, Swati Hedge.
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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.
  • Cover for Between Sun And Shadow, showing two illustrated teen girls. On the left, Adria is tall and muscular, with short unruly hair. She has wings and claws, presently holding a small glowing sphere. On the right, Kori is a little more than half her height, fully armored except for her helmet, and brandishing a pistol.
  • Cover for Bound by Fury, showing a mixed media brown-skinned girl facing the viewer. She has grey eyes and two brown buns. She wears a black top and has a gold necklace. Behind her, a white male looks off to the side. In the foreground a castle-like school is in blue tones, and behind them, a large pink moon glows. Blue and pink swirls add detail. The book title and author name - noelle monĂ©t - are in a serif font. The book also features celestial sprayed edges in a dark blue.
  • Cover for "Casting April," showing an illustrated Chinese girl pulling back a theater curtain to reveal a stage. She is wearing a headset and a tracheostomy tube, and she's holding the script for a play called "Finding Primula." Onstage, an actor in an astronaut costume is looking into the spotlight. The book title is decorated with stars.
  • 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 Deathly Fates, showing an illustrated Chinese priestess standing on a bridge, reaching out to a ghostly soldier/prince. There are shadowy mountains and a moon in the background. The book title and author's name, Tesia Tsai, are written in an elegant font.
  • A book cover for FIRE TO THE STARS by Morgan J. Watchorn. It depicts a girl transforming into a dragon while reaching out with a clawed hand to a slayer boy hesitating to draw his sword against her. Light is flaring in the background from the center, implying a burst in the space between them. The font is thin and swooping.
  • 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.
  • Cover for Flickerstate, showing a young woman standing in front of a mullioned window in a dark library. The young woman is emitting controlled flames. She holds up playing cards that are also emitting controlled flames; more cards drift upward above her head. The book title and the author's name, F. A. Davidson, are written in all-caps gold font.
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  • Book cover for HOLLOW MAGIC by Mars Lauderbaugh. Three characters face the viewer on a dark blue and pink background. There is ice and a the dark outline of a castle in the midground. In the far background, the eyes and hair of a woman is peeking out over the castle. Title text at the bottom of the page reads: HOLLOW MAGIC and underneath the author type reads MARS LAUDERBAUGH.
  • Cover for How to Love You When You're Gone. A blond teenage boy, in a pasta-water yellow poleo, sits across from a brunette teenage girl wearing a yellow hat. They're at a diner, sitting in a red booth. The walls are bright pink!
  • 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.
  • Cover for the In the Country I Love includes a mosque in the center of an American suburban neighborhood, with two boy figures walking toward the mosque. A sky full of stars and a small crescent moon appear surrounding the title and author's name, written in gold bold font.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cover illustration for Mirrorwoven. A large ornate Venetian-style mirror frames the book's title, with a glass shattering effect exploding from the centre. A light-skinned girl teenage with shoulder length blonde hair in a red ballgown holding a lute is looking into the mirror; her reflection has long red hair. Looking out from the mirror on elevated balconies on the left and right are two teenage girls with darker skin and long dark hair, also in elaborate gowns. Within the mirror, stairways lead up to the balconies; outside the mirror are banisters leading towards and framing the girl in the centre. The colour palette is orange and teal, with swirling colours and ornamental sparkles, as well as ornamental ribbons of music wrapping around the three girls and the frame of the mirror.
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cover for Space for Saffron, by Rie Neal. Image shows a 10-year-old girl with fair skin and red hair, wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid. She stands in the doorway of a coffee shop, holding a model volcano.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • Cover the Stars, Stripes & Summer Nights shows a girl and boy sitting on a red checkered picnic blanket on a grassy field covered in white flowers in front of a two story farmhouse with white walls and a red roof. It is night time and there are fireworks in the sky. Two Secret Service agents, a man and woman, in dark suits watch the couple from the background.
  • 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.
  • Female race car driver and male race car driver standing in front of a track with open wheel race cars in the background.
  • A girl and boy lean outside a window at a night sky, wisteria flowers carried by wind.
  • The cover for The Game of Oaths, featuring a red circus tent with the Eiffel Tower in front, and a golden trapeze artist above. The circus tent is flanked with red roses, joker playing cards, and red butterflies with gold designs. The book title is in front of the image, with a dagger making up the "T" in the word "Oaths" and dripping blood. The author's name, S.C. Bandreddi, is below on a brown ribbon. The cover's background is a teal blue color and decorated with gold sparkles, as well as the outline of an analog clock.
  • A young man with red hair holding a camera walks down a city street. Flocks of crows fill the air. The title 'The Last Death Poet' is overlaid in a gothic script
  • Cover for The League of Dangerous Young Ladies, showing several of the main characters silhouettes in period dress, as well as the title and author's name.
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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 Music of Us, shows the inside of a cat cafĂ©. The barista, a teen girl with blonde hair stands behind the counter holding a cup of coffee. A teenage boy in a black leather jacket sits on a stool, strumming a black guitar as he looks over at her. Four cats are playing around the cafĂ©.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cover for "The Three Beasts", showing a large black silhouette of a three-headed dragon on a yellow background.The looming dragon is looking down at the three main characters: Dima, Espie, and Keris, each wielding ornate kalis swords with wavy, serpentine blades. Within the dragon's figure are faint images of more characters (older-looking men) and more dragons of different species. The title is in all-black, stylized Gothic text with swirly flourishes. The Author/Artist is Grovey Pascasio, with contribution by Buddy Beaudoin (Letterer).
  • 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.
  • Cover for Their Will Undone with a red background with gold sunburst and a condor in the middle on a green background, with a golden temple underneath and pink lily of the Incas flowers and golden vines throughout. The words Their Will Undone in white over top with the D and O overlapping like marriage ring. The authors name is at the bottom.
  • Four people with their backs to the viewer stride towards a huge gothic castle with the wind swirling arounds its peaks. The nearest person casually tosses a glowing bone in the air. The sky is purple and dotted with falling teeth. The title These Shattered Spires is bright pink across the middle in gothic serif font.
  • A young woman stands hunched over a dark desk in the bottom half of the picture. Her face is hidden behind shoulder-length golden-blonde hair with strawberry undertones. Her dress is long with pink and blue accents, but leaves her shoulders and upper back exposed. A white, smoke-like fog rises off her and into the painted portrait behind her, which holds a young figure in white with a malicious glint in their eye and a wicked smile. The frame is curved and wooden, and the backdrop of the portrait is an ominous purple smoke. At the bottom of the image is the title "This Wretched Beauty" in a large, elegant font, as well as the words "A Dorian Gray Remix" framed beneath it in a smaller, sleeker font. At the top of the page is the name "Elle Grenier" in the same font as "A Dorian Gray Remix."
  • 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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