Predicting Our 2026 Favorite Books with Gare and Steph

This week, Gare and Steph and I attempt to predict which books will be some of our favorite books in 2026! Kate’s Books Dead Beat Alex Stern Leigh Bardugo Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead The Caretaker Marcus Kliewer Honey by Imani Thompson Queen of Faces Gare’s Books The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives by Elizabeth Arnott This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum Helpless by Jessica Knoll Heather by Caitlin Mullen Heart of Glass Jennifer Hillier Steph’s Books It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen Forget You Saw Her by Noelle W. Ihli Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer Let’s Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry 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