Ten Upcoming Books That Don’t Have Covers Yet #2

I had a blast doing this back in April, so I thought I’d make another list! I’m always adding new upcoming books to my TBR, and usually I wait until the cover is revealed to share them. Not today! I can’t wait to talk about these, so here are ten books without covers that I’m excited to read (note: these are U.S. release dates and publishers):

1. V.E. Schwab – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Tor Books, June 2025

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.

One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.

And all of them grow teeth.

I’m sure lots of readers are excited for V.E. Schwab’s next book, and it’s a vampire story! The blurb is short, but intriguing. I can’t wait!

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2. Jackson Ford – The Bone Raiders. Orbit, May 2025

This epic fantasy follows the story of the Rakada, a fearsome band known as the Bone Raiders, due to their charming habit of wearing the bones of those they kill on their armour. But being a raider is tough these days, especially when the High Chieftain is trying to wipe out you and your kind. When Sayana, a young Rakada scout, finds herself face-to-face with a fire-breathing lizard of legend during a raid-gone-wrong, she comes up with an audacious plan to save the Rakada and preserve their way of life. A plan that involves convincing the lizard to let her ride it.

Jackson Ford just announced this on Instagram and I am beyond excited! Honestly, I was hoping for another Teagan Frost book, but hey, I’ll take any Jackson Ford book I can get:-)

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3. Robert Jackson Bennett – A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2). Del Rey, February 2025

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air-somehow abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard.

To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Before long, Ana’s discovered that they’re not investigating a disappearance, but a murder-and that the killing was just the first chess move by a thief who seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and who can predict every one of Ana’s moves as though they can see the future.

Worse still, the killer seems to be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud. Here, the Empire’s most brilliant minds dissect fallen Titans to harness the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the destruction will be terrible indeed–and the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn. Din has seen Ana solve impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and Ana seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, he fears that his brilliant superior has met an enemy she can’t defeat.

I (and lots of readers I know) absolutely loved The Tainted Cup, so it’s very exciting to have a title and blurb for the next book!

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4. James Logan – The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy #2). Tor Books, January 2025

No blurb for this sequel yet, but hey, I’m very excited to see it listed on Goodreads with a title! I adored The Silverblood Promise, and I’m really looking forward to another story with Logan’s fantastic characters.

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5. Geneva Lee – Filthy Rich Fae #2. Entangled Amara, January 2025

This one doesn’t even have a title or a blurb yet, but since I just read the first book in the series, I’m all over it! I had so much fun with Filthy Rich Fae, and I’m eager to see what happens next, especially after that cliffhanger…

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6. Constance Fay – Chaos (Uncharted Hearts #3). Bramble, March 2025

Lore Olympus meets Winter’s Orbit in this pulse-pounding romance about between a space mercenary and a super soldier whose mind-control breaks when she touches him.

Desperate to prove herself to her crew of space mercenaries, engineer Caro Ogunyemi takes on a solo mission to infiltrate the top secret human experimentation laboratory run in a secret prison by the deadly Pierce family that rules her corner of the galaxy.

Caro realizes she really messed up right about the time Carmichael Pierce injects a bomb into her neck to control her. If that wasn’t enough all her engineering skills seem to be backfiring as a residual alien infection crashes the machinery in everything she touches.

As she works her way deeper into the laboratory, Caro meets their star subject: Leviathan, a super soldier turned mindless killing machine by a chip in his head… until Caro touches him. The same alien infection jamming her datapad and ruining her life also breaks the control chip turning Leviathan into Pierce’s puppet.

In the heart of enemy territory, Caro and Leviathan must figure out how to escape and recover his agency before Caro’s alien infection heals and Leviathan is lost to her forever.

This is such a fun space opera series, and I’m looking forward to following another character in this third book:-)

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7. Molly O’Neill – Greenteeth. Orbit, February 2025

Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle-sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she’s worth saving.

Temperance doesn’t know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny’s lake and Temperance’s family – as well as the very soul of Britain.

Ooh, a folkloric water fantasy, this sounds amazing. This is a debut, and I wish February wasn’t so far away!

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8. Georgia Summers – The Bookshop Below. Redhook, February 2025

In this extraordinary standalone from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The City of Stardust, a disgraced bookseller is offered the chance to restore a magical bookshop to its former glory, and enters a dark underworld of unscrupulous collectors, deadly ink magic and shady societies.

If you want a story that will change your life, Chiron’s bookshop is where you go. For those lucky enough to grace its doors, it’s a glimpse into a world of deadly bargains and powerful, magical books.

For Cassandra Fairfax, it’s a reminder of everything she lost, when Chiron kicked her out and all but shuttered the shop. Since then, she’s used her skills in less . . . ethical ways, trading stolen books and magical readings to wealthy playboys looking for power money can’t buy.

Then Chiron dies. And if Cassandra knows anything, it’s the bookshop must always have an owner.

To restore the shop, she’ll need the help of Lowell Sharpe, a rival bookseller who is everything Cassandra is not – and knows it, too.

But as she is plunged into a world of unscrupulous collectors, deadly ink magic and shady societies, a dark force threatens to unravel the bookshops entirely . . .

I’m always grabbing any book about bookshops, and I think this sounds fantastic!

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9. Gareth L. Powell – Future’s Edge. Titan Books, February 2025

A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War Readers of James S.A. Corey and Becky Chambers will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and a race to save what is left of humanity.

When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore…

Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artifact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival. With time running short, and the planet housing the weapon now situated in hostile territory, she realises she’s going to have to commit an act of desperate piracy if she’s going to achieve her objective before the enemy’s final onslaught.

A thrilling, page-turning journey into deep space where the fights are brutal, the relationships are complicated and the world ended years ago.

I love Powell’s books, and the phrase “heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure” has hooked me completely!

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10. Rachel Gillig – The Knight and the Moth. Orbit Books, May 2025

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. She sleeps, and dreams of seven unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

But just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral, and Sybil dreams of a moth—the death Omen. Then, one by one, the Diviners begin to vanish.

To find them, Sybil enlists the knight’s help. But the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. The seven Omens are not merely figures that visit her wakeless mind—they are real. Ancient, sorcerous, and cunning, Sybil must face each of them to recover the lost Diviners. And the knight, with whom she has become inextricably entangled, may be one of them.

I’m so sad I haven’t read Gillig’s last series, so I’m definitely not going to miss her next book. Doesn’t this sounds good?

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Are these on your TBR yet?