If your bookshelves weren’t groaning under the weight of recommendations from our Best of 2025 list, then they will be soon! Here’s what we can’t wait to read in 2026.

When you make someone’s day with just a handful of nuts.

No, not me spent half the day in a Stranger Things Coma, watching reels and interviews with cast members and the Duffer brothers for hours, no longer afraid of spoilers. Anyone with me in this?

Great series, I loved these books! 👇🏻👌🏼

Proudly supporting the Hellfire Club in the office today. Anyone else excited about the last season? 😅 #StrangerThings

Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand.

Visited the Golders Hill Pergola in North London today. Stuff of fairytales.

In Brighton they clearly know how to make a good pancake. The London Fog Matcha is also a new favourite now!

Hands down, it’s one of my best photos of @robjhayes.bsky.social ever.. @grahamaustinking.bsky.social and @aliciawanstallb.bsky.social in supporting roles at World Fantasy Convention, Brighton 🙂

With you this April!

It was such a joy to interview artist Tom Roberts and showcase his breathtaking new cover for Mark Lawrence’s Daughter of Crows. His Library trilogy art was brilliant, but this one raises the bar even higher. thatthornguy.com/2025/10/21/i...

Checkout the 🔥🔥🔥 cover for @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social’s upcoming DAUGHTER OF CROWS & @mitriel.bsky.social’s interview with artist Tom Roberts over at That Thorn Guy

Cover reveal for my next novel: Daughter of Crows, and an interview with the artist. L1nk-in-c0mments. (Over on ThatThornGuy - many thanks to Agnes Meszaros!)

I’ve just seen the final version of the UK cover art for Mark Lawrence’s upcoming Daughter of Crows. It’s so hauntingly beautiful I’ve got goosebumps all over! It’s another triumph for HarperVoyager after the stunning Library trilogy covers. Cover artist Tom Roberts is definitely a keeper!

Here's my review for Murder at Spindle Manor - a thoroughly enjoyable gaslamp mystery (and SPFBO winner!). fanfiaddict.com/review-murde...

Check out @blog.readindiefantasy.com for recommendations! bsky.app/profile/blog...

If you have a reddit account, I'd really appreciate it if you could upvote and leave a comment on the sale post www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co... 💙📚

Couldn’t resist snagging these titles from the @narratess.com Indie Book Sale 📚🔥 Have you read any of them? Which ones did you get? indiebook.sale

As @narratess.com's sale has begun, I made as usual a list of recommendations. Each time is more difficult to keep it short! Feel free to check: jamreads.com/articles/my-... 💙📚

The big @narratess.com Indie Sale is HERE! From Aug 23rd-25th, get indie fantasy, sci-fi, and horror priced 1.99. 0.99 or FREE! Check out the sale: indiebook.sale Need suggestions? We've put together our usual list of book recommendations: www.readindiefantasy.com/the-narrates...

The dragon hoard is open! 🐉 325+ fantasy, sci-fi & horror books are on sale, including A Gamble of Gods (at €/$/£0.99 in the Narratess Indie Sale for the first time!). Fill your TBR before the portal closes. 👉 indiebook.sale #narratessindiesale @narratess.com

When a reader calls your book ‘the most captivating I’ve read in ages’ … yep, I’m grinning like a fool. 😁 #AGambleOfGods

Happy book birthday to me! #BookSky The Feeding is now available in the US and Canada (reposts welcome). Details here: anthonyryan.net/2025/08/12/t...

Hello people! Wanted to ask if you have a book releasing from September 2025-August 2026 that you would like to be covered on Jamreads (SFF/Horror/Hist-Fic/Spec-Fic). (Trad/Indie equally) Would you be so kind to put in the comments (so I can start working on my TBR with time?) 💙📚

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Ends TODAY! ⌛️

Here it is: the Epic Sale of Beloved SFF 2025! talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025... Find Children at $/€/£0.99, worldwide, all stores, here: www.books2read.com/thetenworlds1 bjornlarssen.itch.io/thetenworlds1

The Thirteenth Hour and over 100 indie books are on sale until the 11th for 0.99 or FREE! The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF 2025 features indie books that were recommended and loved by other indies, so you know they're good! Check out the sale here: talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF 2025 is now running! Grab some amazing indie books for next to nothing! Over 100 highly recommended titles, all free or deeply discounted. Aug 7–11! talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

Are you ready for a Book Sale?! 100+ books free or $0.99 talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF 2025 is now running! Grab some amazing indie books for next to nothing! Over 100 highly recommended titles, all free or deeply discounted. Aug 7–11! talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

Came home shattered after work, half-dead on the couch. Then I heard distressed meows outside and suddenly I was sprinting down the stairs like I was Usain Bolt. Not my cat but I wish it was.

It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of The Chosen One Con, the first book in a new gaslamp duology, Lost in the Aether, written by @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com. Cover by James T. Egan (Bookfly Design). Full info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

Writing in lunch break. Book 2 of The Order Of The Dragon

A colleague is halfway through my book and enjoying it. She bought a paperback copy as a birthday present for her fantasy-reader friend, and today she brought it into the office for me to dedicate it. Signing my book at work wasn’t surreal at all. 😅

I mean Vanessa Kirby 💜, Pedro Pascal and the guy who played Eddie Munson in Stranger Things? I would have probably watched this even if it had been just commercials for two hours with them.

I didn’t know we had an estate in Enfield, North London, let alone that it was free to visit. And yes, it was a bit cloudy today. English summer for you. 😆 #FortyHall #LondonWalks

Two stunning books, one hauntingly beautiful world. J. L. Odom’s second novel hits harder, cuts deeper, and leaves you craving the third. Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I’ve been watching Ginny & Georgia for uncomplicated fun & relaxation. As I’m nearing the end of season 2, I finally have to acknowledge that all this time I’ve been admiring a sociopath, who’s emotionally compartmentalised so hard that even murder can sit neatly next to dinner prep and shopping.

A slow-burn masterpiece with the emotional weight of literary fiction wrapped in the grit of military fantasy. J.L. Odom’s debut floored me. Read my review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

💙 @dualipa.bsky.social was absolutely incredible last night. Wembley was in pure ecstasy from start to finish.

For All Mankind - the first few episodes? I was curious what the hype was about but not overly impressed - by the end of the second season I was both addicted and in awe - having finished all four seasons, NASA owes me therapy. Season 5 now, please

I’ve read three of these and just started the fourth. Based on the quality on offer, this is going to be one hell of a competition!

In 10 days the #SPFBO champions' league starts! A decade's worth of champions competed together to find the champion of champions. Check out the judges: hardy perennials, returning favourites, & visiting superstars! #SPFBOCL (Spiffbocl) mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/05/afte...

I finished reading Of Love And Loss by @bshgarcia.bsky.social today. It’s a masterclass in epic fantasy craftsmanship. Read my review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

David Garrett live at the London Palladium on Friday night. I was spellbound.

“Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem.” Pychl, (2019) In other words, procrastination is less about a task you’re delaying and more about the underlying feelings induced by the task you’re avoiding.

Even though I haven’t blogged regularly in years, my old posts still get steady traffic — and that quiet support means a lot. So I’ve decided to return with something new (and very me): introducing some of my favourite London neighbourhoods. 🙂 First up: #CrouchEnd mitriel.com/2025/05/16/a...

SPFBOX is over - we have our glorious champion, and a super-close runner up! All of these books are worthy of your attention! #SPFBO

“The parchment was like a dead friend’s skin under my touch. Its wrinkles and age spots a testament to its fight against time’s claws, the ink turning into its own ghost as it whispered my story back to me.” Vespera, Book 2 of The Order Of The Dragon #AmWriting