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HOLY MOTHER COVER! • Favorite 2021 YA Covers

December 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

You know what’s even better than a book with a good story? When that book has an awesome cover!

Welcome to this color-coordinated YA book covers! Full of books that came out in 2021 with gorgeous covers! These are the covers that made me stop in my tracks and go “huh, let me stare at this gorgeous piece of work for a while.” These absolutely mesmerized me, and I wonder if they do to you too.

2021 YA COVERS
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WHY ARE THESE MY FAVORITES? Not a surprised that all of these covers (aside from a few) are illustrated.

[spoiler title=”If anybody’s curious of each title, here’s the list:” open=”yes” style=”fancy” icon=”chevron-circle”]

House of Hollow • The (Un)Popular Vote • Edie in Between • Pumpkin • Eat Your Heart Out

Ace of Spades • Six Crimson Cranes • Things We Couldn’t Say • A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions • Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America

Tahira in Bloom • Between Perfect and Real • All Our Hidden Gifts • Love Is For Losers • Major Detours

Dustborn • Once Upon A Quinceanera • Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales •
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega • Lies Like Wildfire

The Tragedy of Dane Riley • Untethered • Firekeeper’s Daughter • Yolk • City of Spells

Some Faraway Place • Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story • This Poison Heart • Things That Grow • What Big Teeth

The Taking of Jake Livingston • That Way Madness Lies: 15 of Shakespeare’s Most Notable Works Reimagined • Written in Starlight • The Coming Storm • The Delusionist

Not Here to Be Liked • The Valley and The Flood • Can’t Take That Away • Some Other Now

The Last Words We Said • A Clash of Steel (A Treasure Island Remix) • Winterkeep •
What Beauty There Is • When All the Girls Are Sleeping

A Dark and Starless Forest • Amelia Unabridged • The Mirror Season •
Tiny Dancer • No Beauties or Monsters

American Betiya • In the Ravenous Dark • Squad • Dark Rise • Mercury Boys

The Devil Makes Three • That Dark Infinity • The Ones We’re Meant to Find •
The Perfect Place to Die • A Snake Falls to Earth[/spoiler]

I can’t vouch whether these books are good, but I can say that Yolk, Six Crimson Cranes, Unearthed, and Tokyo Ever After are the best covers. I can’t stop staring at them because they’re beautiful.

What are your favorite YA covers that came out in 2021? 

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