Top Five: New Release Book Covers

We’re almost there! It’s the day before the Solstice! Let’s do a top five to celebrate…

I was scrolling through my blog reader and saw that Zezee did a top five post recently, and I followed her credit in that post to a Top 5 Tuesday series that is being organized by Meeghan.

Yesterday’s prompt was “Top 5 covers of 2023.” Love it! Let’s go.

Here are my top 5 favorite book covers released this year:

It’s probably no surprise that the majority of my favorites are from my Fairyloot hardcover special editions. I especially love their covers for The Hurricane Wars, Shanghai Immortal, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Unfortunately, the picture above does not do these beautiful covers justice.

Here are a few photos to give you a better idea how beautiful these books are in person.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries also made my top five favorites from this year. However, I actually prefer the original hardcover edition (which is not the one pictured here). When I saw the regular hardcover at my local bookstore, I really loved the fact that it has no dust jacket. I also like the darker background.

The only non-Fairyloot hardcover to make this list is Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha. I saw this cover online and it immediately caught my eye. Then I read the blurb and had to add it to my Kindle right away (even though, as I’ve discussed already, my end of year TBR is already too full). Just for making me one-click, I’d say that is an effective (and really nice) cover.