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

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