Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Share and discuss book ideas for Task 2: Read a book featured on a “best book covers” list

A Goodreads list of beautiful covers for 2025 here.

Other sites have lists as well, such as PRINT Magazine ("100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024") and Penguin Random House ("The Instagrammable Cover List")

Choices I am considering:

The Vanishing Half

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

The Midnight Library

I found this list of 2025’s Best Book Covers from Lit Hub as voted on by book cover designers: https://lithub.com/the-173-best-book-...

I think I’m going to read The Slip by Lucas Schaefer for this one.

I have a few I'm considering. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (from Book Riot's Most Iconic Book Covers of All Time post, which I have somehow managed to still not read), Indigo by Beverly Jenkins (from Book Riot's Best 90s Book Covers post, since I love Beverly Jenkins and haven't read this classic from her yet), The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada and Tokyo Ueno Station by Yū Miri (which both feature on LitHub's Best Book Covers of 2020 list and are both things I've already been interested in).

I've mostly been trying to stick to books I already own or that are already on my tbr.

Endling Maria Reva