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 : a novel
Awad, Mona
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle,...
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...
Daddy issues : a novel
Goldbeck, Kate
Paper Book
"Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!"--Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her...
Ibis
Haynes, Justin
Paper Book
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ** A bold, witty, magical new voice in fiction, Justin Haynes weaves a cross-generational Caribbean story of migration, superstition, and a search for family in the novel Ibis. ...
Before I Forget
Hoen, Tory Henwood
Paper Book
A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back--and in moving us forward--for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame. Call it inertia. Call it a quarter-life crisis. Whatever you call it, Cricket...
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 AlegrĂ­a Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
Bad bad girl : a novel
Jen, Gish
Paper Book
A TIME "100 BEST" BOOK OF THE YEAR * BEST OF FALL: Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, People, Oprah Daily, Writer's Digest, W Magazine * RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.
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 Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister--and Earth's environmental salvation. In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate...
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore
Krempholtz, Emily
Paper Book
Guy Shadowfade is dead, and after a lifetime as the dark sorcerer's right-hand, Violet Thistlewaite is determined to start over - not as the fearsome Thornwitch, but as someone kind. Someone better. Someone good. The quaint town of Dragon's Rest, Violet decides, will be her second chance - she'll...
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...
Cat + crazy. Volume 1
Nadatani, Wataru
Paper Book
From Wataru Nadatani, the creator of Cat + Gamer, comes CAT + CRAZY, a humorous cat manga for all animal and cat lovers! High schooler Kensuke Fuji adores cats, but others in his family are allergic, so he's never really been able to spend time with any. When he meets a mysteriously skilled cat guru...
The Marigold Cottages murder collective : a mystery
Nichols, Jo
Paper Book
The perfect summer read, full of charm and heart, written in the vein of The Thursday Murder Club or Only Murders in the Building but with a southern California twist. Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people...
The hounding : a novel
Purvis, Xenobe
Paper Book
National Bestseller * A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME and Kirkus Reviews * The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century...
The island of last things
Sloley, Emma
Paper Book
A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world "An important, engaging read, FILLED WITH THE HOPE for what could be." --San Francisco Chronicle "Sometimes a new author will sidle up...
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Suri, Tasha
Paper Book
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering standalone romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries--in a stunning hardcover edition featuring designed endpapers, silver foiling, and a soft...
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Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away...
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