2025 Favourite Book Covers

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 December 11, 2025
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2025 Favourite Book Covers

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
The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse - a world that Margaret Atwood declared 'soooo genius'.   In the cult classic novel Bunny,...
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
Feito, Virginia
Paper Book
'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES 'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to...
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...
Ibis
Haynes, Justin
Paper Book
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. There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in...
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 Bed...
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
Kidd, Jess
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From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.<...
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
'I'm always happy to go into her zany vortex' Lorde THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 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...
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...
A new new me
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
The breakout novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable.
The Witch of Willow Sound : A Novel
Penney, Vanessa F.
Paper Book
For readers of Our Wives Under the Sea and The Once and Future Witches comes a feminist gothic tale with a tough-as-nails female protagonist who must find her elderly aunt, long suspected of being a witch. A spooky, atmospheric, and fast-paced feminist tale about women called witches and the parts...
The 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...
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
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...
The prince without sorrow
Wijesekara, Maithree
Paper Book
The fantasy debut sensation of 2025 🐆🐆🐆 WELCOME TO THE RAN EMPIRE. Where winged serpents fly through the skies. Giant leopards prowl the earth. And witches burn blue as they die. A prince born into violence Prince...
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