2025 Favorite Reads and Some 2026 Hopefuls with Gare

This week, Gare and I talk about what we've been watching lately, our favorite 2025 reads, and some 2026 books Gare already loves, as well as some 2026 hopefuls! Our 2025 Faves Kate's Books Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Williams The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Gare's Books Night Watcher by Daphne Woolsoncroft This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead Boom Town by Nic Stone Keep This For Me by Jennifer Fawcett Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Too Old for This by Samantha Downing 2026 Books We Talked About Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu Helpless by Jessica Knoll On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield The Better Mother by Jennifer Van der Kleut The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead Sundown Girls by L.S. Stratton Shows We Talked About The Beast in Me Dexter: Resurrection Slow Horses Down Cemetery Road Stranger Things Heated Rivalry All the Bookwild Links: Check Out the Bookwild Substack Subscribe to Bookwild on YouTube Get Bookwild Merch Follow @imbookwild on Instagram Check Out Author Social Media Packages Follow Co-hosts On Instagram: Gare Billings @gareindeedreads Steph Lauer @books.in.badgerland Halley Sutton @halleysutton25 Brian Watson @readingwithbrian MacKenzie Green @missusa2mba Erin Ashley @bellametaphor