Favourite Book Covers of 2025

Can you judge a book by its cover? These recent adult fiction and graphic novel covers are an invitation to pick up the book!

Updated November 26, 2025
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Favourite Book Covers of 2025

Can you judge a book by its cover? These recent adult fiction and graphic novel covers are an invitation to pick up the book!

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We love you, Bunny
Awad, Mona
Paper Book
Frankenstein meets Heathers in this dazzling, hilarious, and deliciously dark follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny, from Margaret Atwood's 'literary heir', Mona Awad   Fall down the rabbit hole into the...
What Hunger
Dang, Catherine.
Paper Book
The river has roots
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and...
Victorian psycho : a novel
Feito, Virginia
Paper Book
Virginia Feito's Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum, Guardian)--from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her "silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological...
Boy : a novel
Galland, Nicole
Paper Book
From critically acclaimed author Nicole Galland comes a vibrant and thought-provoking historical tale of love, political intrigue, and gender-swapping set in the theatre world of Elizabethan London. Alexander "Sander" Cooke is the most celebrated "boy player" in the...
This princess kills monsters
Herman, Ry
Paper Book
A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom--and herself--in this feminist fairy tale satire. "The Princess Bride meets Shrek."--Susie Dumond, author of...
The White Hot
Hudes, Quiara Alegria
Paper Book
The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
Kakigori summer
Itami, Emily
Paper Book
A wry and tender novel from the author of Fault Lines about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer in coastal Japan, navigating domestic life with their sharp-edged grandmother and decidedly avoiding resurfaced memories of their mother's disappearance--for readers...
Murder At Gulls Nest : Nora Breen Investigates (Nora Breen Investigates)
Kidd, Jess.
Paper Book
The first in a sparkling new 1950s seaside mystery series, featuring sharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen.
Crafting for sinners a novel
Kiefer, Jenny
Paper Book
"You will compulsively turn these pages well into the dead of night."-Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this...
Saltcrop
Kitasei, Yume.
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail comes the tender and gripping tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister - and Earth's environmental salvation. 'An absorbing, compelling tale of love, loyalty and danger'...
Will there ever be another you
Lockwood, Patricia
Paper Book
"Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could." - Vulture "Bonkers." - The New York Times "Reliably brilliant." - The...
The burial plot
Macneal, Elizabeth
Paper Book
'I genuinely could not put this down' - Stacey Halls, author of Mrs England 'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' - Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time The Burial Plot is a spellbinding historical Gothic...
A New New Me
Oyeyemi, Helen.
Paper Book
The breakout novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable.
Hounding
Purvis, Xenobe.
Paper Book
'Extraordinary . . . clever, strange and beautifully written' THE TIMES 'Prompts thoughts of both THE CRUCIBLE and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES . . . Purvis is an exquisitely accomplished wordsmith.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A taut, tense...
Ruth
Riley, Kate
Paper Book
A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025 Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the same breakfast song in a...
The blanket cats
Shigematsu, Kiyoshi
Paper Book
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems - and they all want to believe that a temporary feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. Or at least provide a few days'...
The Island of Last Things
Sloley, Emma.
Paper Book
Camille is a keeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz Island. Reserved around humans, she is happy to spend her days caring for chimpanzees and tree frogs, and a magnificent, restless jaguar, while outside nature crumbles. Resistance groups and brutal cartels are fighting to shape the world...
The isle in the Silver Sea
Suri, Tasha
Paper Book
Pick a Colour
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
The prince without sorrow
Wijesekara, Maithree
Paper Book
Drawing on inspiration from the Mauryan Empire of Ancient India, debut author Maithree Wijesekara plunges readers into the first amazing book of the Obsidian Throne trilogy, a new fantasy series of hunted witches, romantic angst, and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars...
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