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While this isn’t the last in my series of Rainbow Reads, it is the last if you’re going by ROYGBIV. Today, it’s all about books with purple covers.
I usually try to include a variety of genres, but there are only so many non-fiction books with purple covers (I would love your suggestions on any you may know.)
This list is predominantly YA fantasy books with purple covers and YA romance books with purple covers. There are a couple of anthologies, some adult romance, a little dystopian, a little sci-fi, and a few thrillers, both adult and YA.
Purple cover books are a lot harder to come by in other genres and much harder to find that most of the other colors, especially blue. But I love purple and there are some seriously beautiful covers on this list.
I’ve read a few of them but also have a lot of them on my TBR and I’ll get to them someday! But don’t I say that about them all?
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- Thrift Books has become my go-to when I’m looking for a book and want it cheap. It’s great if you like buying used books. With this you can get a free book after spending $30!
- Shop my book lists here! You can find every book list I have on Bookshop.org (except my monthly round-ups) and I add everything I can but they occasionally won’t have some. I do occasionally add extras though. If any lists are empty, they’ll be filled in shortly! Shop my bookshop.org book lists here.
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This is not the Jess Show
Author: Anna Carey
Genre: YA thriller
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Aurora Rising
Author: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Genre: YA sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
In Search of Captain Zero
The Perfect Stranger
Toxic
Author: Sara Shepard
Genre: YA thriller
Series or Standalone: Series, #15
Killer
Author: Sara Shepard
Genre: YA thriller
Series or Standalone: Series, #6
White Smoke
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Genre: YA paranormal thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Cinderella is Dead
Ringer
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: YA dystopia
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
Lost in the Never Woods
Author: Aiden Thomas
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Amateurs
Randomize
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Sci-fi novella
Series or Standalone: Series, but they aren’t related
Girls of Paper and Fire
Author: Natasha Ngan
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Source
Graduation Day
Starry, Starry Night
These Witches Don’t Burn
Author: Isabel Sterling
Genre: YA LGBTQ+ Fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Eat and Love Yourself
Author: Sweeney Boo, Lylian Klepakowsky
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Witch Boy
Author: Molly Ostertag
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
When the Stars are Scattered
Author: Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
You Should See Me in a Crown
Author: Leah Johnson
Genre: YA contemporary
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Steeple
Author: John Allison, Sarah Stern, Jim Campbell
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Welcome to Night Vale
Author: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Genre: Sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Glass
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Genre: YA poetry
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
When the Moon was Ours
Author: Anna Marie McLemore
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
That Inevitable Victorian Thing
Author: E.K. Johnston
Genre: YA sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Geekerella
Author: Ashley Poston
Genre: YA romance contemporary
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Half-Blood
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
A Pho Love Story
Author: Loan Le
Genre: YA romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Something is Killing the Children
Author: James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
Blood Like Magic
Author: Estelle Sambury
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Juliet Takes a Breath
Author: Gabby Rivera
Genre: YA LGBTQ+ fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Starfish
Author: Akemi Dawn Bowman
Genre: YA contemporary
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Jane Anonymous
Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz
Genre: YA mystery
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
The Lightness of Hands
Author: Jeff Garvin
Genre: YA mental health
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Love, Jacaranda
Author: Alex Flinn
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
When Light Left Us
Author: Leah Thomas
Genre: YA sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Lay it on my Heart
Author: Angela Pneuman
Genre: YA fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Smell of Other People’s Houses
Author: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Genre: YA sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Secret Recipe for Moving On
Author: Karen Bischer
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Box in the Woods
Author: Maureen Johnson
Genre: YA mystery
Series or Standalone: Series, #4
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Author: Julia Quinn
Genre: Historical romance
Series or Standalone: Series, #4
Cool for the Summer
Author: Dahlia Adler
Genre: YA LGBTQ+ romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Up All Night
Author: Various authors, it’s an anthology
Genre: YA contemporary romance anthology
Series or Standalone: Standalone
All Kinds of Other
Author: James Sie
Genre: YA contemporary LGBTQ+
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Crown
Author: Kiera Cass
Genre: YA dystopian romance
Series or Standalone: Series, #5
Fix Her Up
Author: Tessa Bailey
Genre: Romance
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Run Rebel
Author: Manjeet Mann
Genre: YA contemporary poetry
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Diviners
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Daughter of the Burning City
Author: Amanda Foody
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Bone Witch
Author: Rin Chupeco
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Glitch
Author: Heather Anastasiu
Genre: YA dystopia
Series or Standalone: Series #1
One True Loves
Author: Elise Bryant
Genre: YA romance contemporary
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
The Dating Plan
Author: Sara Desai
Genre: Romance
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
The Mythic Koda Rose
Author: Jennifer Nissley
Genre: YA LGBTQ+ contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Trouble Girls
Author: Julia Lynn Rubin
Genre: YA LGBTQ+ contemporary
Series or Standalone: Standalone
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This
Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Defy the Night
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Broken Throne
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Genre: YA fantasy dystopia
Series or Standalone: Series, #4.5
Ruinsong
Author: Julia Ember
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
How beautiful is this cover!?
You Were Never Here
Author: Kathleen Peacock
Genre: YA thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Muse of Nightmares
Author: Lani Taylor
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #2
We Own the Sky
Author: Luke Allnutt
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Wicked Like A Wildfire
Author: Lana Popovic
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Seven Crowns
Author: E.V. Everest
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series, #1
Goldeline
Author: Jimmy Cajoleas
Genre: Middle-grade fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft
Author: Multiple authors since it’s an anthology
Genre: Anthology
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Have you read any of these books with purple covers? Which ones? Which purple cover book are you going to read?
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