January and February Books We Are Excited About with Gare and Steph

This week, Gare, Steph and I share our 2026 bookish goals, and January and February releases we are excited about! Steph also shares a few backlist she will be reading in January and February. Kate’s Books Kin by Tayari Jones Spies and Other Gods James Wolff Queen of Faces by Petra Lord On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah-Yah Scholfield Unread: A Memoir of Learning (And Loving) to Read on TikTok by Oliver James Gare’s Books A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James Dead in the Water by John Marrs Here Lie All the Boys Who Broke My Heart by Emma Simmerman The Exes by Leodora Darlington Last Seen by Christopher Castellani Steph’s Books Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester The Act of Disappearing by Nathan Gower It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashimo The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 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