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welcome back book babes! let's chat about the BEST fantasy books we've read so far this year ⚔️🏆

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0:00 best books of 2026 (so far)

0:11 the raven scholar

2:50 assistant to the villain

5:02 wuthering heights

8:30 the poet empress

12:58 immortal dark

17:12 eternal ruin

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we’re hopping back into classic booktube vibes today with a mid-year book tag video

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0:00 mid year freakout tag

0:26 best new release

4:29 the shortest book

9:11 the longest book

11:20 the prettiest cover

16:33 i loved, others didn't

20:45 others loved, i didn't

24:36 highest rating

27:10 underrated fav

29:26 best audiobook

34:00 favorite read of 2026 (so far)

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our top betrayal list of the books we read and HATED from this year but had to finish anyways.... 💔

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0:00 worst books of 2026 (so far)

0:23 the secret history

3:08 broken dove

6:41 the wolf and the woodsmen

9:17 innamorata

13:55 just friends

18:12 bunny

20:25 graceless heart

24:24 the alice network

26:38 the bookclub for troublesome women

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welcome back book babes! we're done month 6 of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in june!!plus our reading challenge so far...the books📚 unicorn hunters by katherine arden📚 the night we met by abby jimeniz📚 under the whispering door by tj klune📚 this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone📚 the jasmine throne by tasha suri📚 the maiden and her monster by maddie martinezso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕and join the hardcover fam ⤵️⤵️ / @hardcoverpodcast follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧

it's getting contentious... we're ranking all the fantasy books at least ONE of us has given 5 stars 🌟

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0:00 intro

1:10 katabasis

2:15 fourth wing

4:08 mate

6:08 the knight and the moth

6:57 sunrise on the reaping

9:02 wild reverence

10:58 cruel prince

12:23 acomaf / acosf

15:43 crescent city

18:39 graceless heart

20:28 the raven scholar

22:22 a shadow in the ember

25:27 invisible life of addie larue

27:48 the house in the cerulean sea

29:26 project hail mary

30:54 tress and the emerald sea

32:03 one dark window

35:08 fall of ruin and wrath

36:57 a study in drowning

38:30 infernal devices

39:58 immortal dark

41:04 divine rivals

43:28 the results

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welcome back book babes! we're done month 5 of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in may!!plus our reading challenge so farthe books📚 the raven scholar by antonia hodgson📚 the poet empress by shen tao📚 the starlight heir by amalie howard📚 broken dove by dani francis 📚 sword catcher by cassandra clare📚 an offer from a gentleman / bridgerton by julia quinn📚 first and forever by lynn painter📚 crying in h mart by michelle zaunerso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧 0:00 intro0:40 the raven scholar3:09 the poet empress5:36 the starlight heir10:52 broken dove14:14 sword catcher19:33 an offer from a gentleman21:58 first and forever26:48 crying in h mart 31:44 reading goalshttps://linktr.ee/hardcoverpodcast #booktube #bookrecommendations #romantasy #fantasybooks #romancebooks

dystopian is back again.... let's chat and see if this sequel equals the measure of silver elite (good AND bad)join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚(every review has a non-spoiler review AND spoiler section for if you want just a taste or the whole juicy details) AND JOIN THE HARDCOVER FAM 🤍 / @hardcoverpodcast0:00 Non-Spoiler Review13:59 Star Rating18:56 Spoiler Section#booktube #bookreview #romantasy #dystopia #silverelite #brokendove

happy aapi heritage month! what a perfect opportunity to gush about some of our fav fantasy books written by aapi voices the books📚 katabasis / the poppy war / babel / yellowface by r.f. kuang📚 the isle in the silver sea by tasha suri📚 heir / an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir📚 the poet empress by shen tao📚 for she is wrath by emily varga📚 blood over bright haven by m. l. wang📚 the starlight heir by amalie howard📚 the river has roots / this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtarso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧 0:00 aapi fantasy recs0:16 katabasis / the poppy war3:06 the isle in the silver sea4:33 heir / an ember in the ashes6:02 the poet empress7:29 for she is wrath8:54 blood over bright haven9:52 the starlight heir14:27 the river has roots / this is how you lose the time warhttps://linktr.ee/hardcoverpodcast #booktube #bookreview #fantasybooks #romantasy #aapimonth

you guys picked this book AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT. this epic fantasy had all the things we love b-plot romance, incredible writing, a funny sidekick, and political intrigue. it's a winner for sure.

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0:00 non-spoiler review

10:46 star rating

13:57 spoiler section

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Long story short...April was a rough month (especially for Paiton)

welcome back book babes! we're done month 4 of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in april!!

plus our reading challenge so far, may tbr, and a poll to pick our next read

the books

📚 innamorata by ava reid

📚 the secret history by donna tartt

📚 the familiar by leigh bardugo

📚 slewfoot by gerald brom

📚 bunny by mona awad

📚 the alloy of law by brandon sanderson

📚 before i knew i loved you by toshikazu kawaguchi

so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕

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0:00 april reads

0:23 innamorata

6:13 the secret history

10:44 the familiar

14:29 slewfoot

17:08 bunny

22:28 the alloy of law

26:41 before i knew i loved you

32:32 reading challenge stats

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we're just two romantasy girls reacting to this years nominees for the 2026 hugo awards (specifically the novels) including the romantasy, the fantasy, and the very boy-coded sci-fi pickso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕📚the books🏆 the everlasting by alix e harrow🏆 the raven scholar by antonia hodgson🏆 the incandescent by emily tesh🏆 a drop of corruption by robert jackson bennett🏆 death of the author by nnedi okorafor🏆 shroud by adrian tchaikovskyfollow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧 0:00 intro1:47 the everlasting4:10 the raven scholar10:20 the incandescent12:46 a drop of corruption17:38 death of the author21:41 shroudhttps://linktr.ee/hardcoverpodcast #booktube #bookrecommendations #romantasy #fantasybooks #hugo

happy spring! we're going through the top 10 books on our TBR that are perfect to read in the springtime including some brand NEW releases and a few treasured staples 🌸

so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕📚

the books

📚 this kingdom will not kill me by ilona andrews

📚 empire of storms / tower of dawn by sjm

📚 lady tremaine by rachel hochhauser

📚 for the wolf by hannah whitten

📚 cleopatra by saara el-arifi

📚 wolf worm by t kingfisher

📚 yesteryear by caro claire burke

📚 blood & roses by callie hart

📚 before i knew i loved you by toshikazu kawaguchi

📚 the poet empress by shen taoand

0:00 intro

0:52 this kingdom will not kill me

3:33 empire of storms / tower of dawn

6:45 lady tremaine

10:01 for the wolf

12:29 cleopatra

14:55 wolf worm

17:09 yesteryear

19:52 blood & roses

23:57 before i knew i loved you

27:02 the poet empress

30:06 OUR NEXT READ

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happy spring! as certified fantasy readers we're going through the top 10 fantasy books that are perfect to read in the springtime 🌸

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0:00 intro1:27 wild reverence3:44 assistant to the villain6:18 tress of the emerald sea9:44 a fate inked in blood12:34 the everlasting15:20 the knight and the moth18:39 the house in the cerulean sea21:32 graceless heart25:02 the river has roots27:37 encyclopedia of faeries

welcome back book babes! we're done month 3 of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in the month of march!!the books📚 just friends by haley pham📚 assistant to the villain by hannah nicole maehrer📚 dragon republic by r. f. kuang📚 the wolf and the woodsman by ava reid📚 elantris by brandon sanderson📚 aubrey wants to die by pip knight📚 the alice network by katie quinnso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕0:00 intro0:25 just friends4:55 assistant to the villain9:08 dragon republic11:00 the wolf and teh woodsman18:13 elantris24:10 aubrey wants to die26:45 the alice network32:47 reading challenge check-in

welcome back book babes! today we're reviewing eternal ruin book 2 in the immortal dark trilogy!!all our book reviews include a spoiler free review and star rating before jumping into all the juicy details with our spoiler sectionso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧 0:00 spoiler free review5:39 star ratings9:11 spoiler sectionhttps://linktr.ee/hardcoverpodcast #booktube #bookreview #romantasy #fantasybooks #vampire #darkacademia #romantasy

welcome back book babes! today we're reviewing just friends by haley pham and giving our HONEST reactions to whether or not this book is worth it

all our book reviews include a spoiler free review and star rating before jumping into all the juicy details with our spoiler section

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welcome back book babes! we're done month 2 of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in february!!plus our reading challenge so far, march tbr, and a poll to pick our next readthe books📚 lord of the rings, return of the king by jrr tolkien📚 immortal dark by tigest girma📚 eternal ruin by tigest girma📚 can't get enough by kennedy ryan📚 the house of eve by sadeqa johnsonso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕

welcome back book babes! today we're reviewing immortal dark and this vampire book is HOT and gritty. we've got a dark academia setting, TRUE enemies-to-lovers, and an unlikeable FMC?? the perfect combo.

all our book reviews include a spoiler free review and star rating before jumping into all the juicy details with our spoiler section

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welcome back book babes! it's challenge time to guess our favorite romantasy books by their one star reviews and aubrie's HIGHLY offended

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we're diving into this new historic romantasy graceless heart by isabel ibañez set in renaissance italy with some pretty mixed reactions between paiton and aubrie... so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕

welcome back book babes! we're done month one of 2026 so here's a reading wrap up of everything we read in january!!the books📚 heated rivalry by rachel reid📚 people we meet on vacation by emily henry📚 wuthering heights by emily brontë📚 graceless heart by isabel ibañez📚 the book club for troublesome women by marie bostwickso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕

welcome back book babes! today we're going through our special editions that would definitely be on our rob list. so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕📚and join the hardcover fam ⤵️⤵️ / @hardcoverpodcast follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧

emily henry's first move is out! but with any book adaptation it begs the question... was it faithful to the source material? and perhaps more importantly,, which is better??? so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕📚

welcome back book babes! today we're going through 26 books everyone needs to read for 2026 including NEW fantasy releases, new romance books, books getting adapted this year, and the books we are lowk embarrassed we haven't got to yet... so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive into these paper sheets ☕📚and join the hardcover fam ⤵️⤵️ / @hardcoverpodcast follow us ‪@hardcoverpodcast‬ everywhere 🎧 0:00 intro2:46 new fantasy releases13:54 new romance releases19:38 read it before you see it27:25 books we NEED to read35:57 picks for each other and YOU

going through the 60+ books we read in 2025 and ranking them from GODTIER WORDSMITH BIBLE to F U & BURN UR PAGES 👀

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reminisce with us on the BEST books of 2025 as we hand out 10 book superlatives as well as awarding the Official Hardcover Book of the YearTMjoin us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

we're back to the world of fae and alchemy with a vampire queen and twenty other new fantasy creatures.... let's chat and see if this sequel holds to the success of quicksilverjoin us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚(every review has a non-spoiler review AND spoiler section for if you want just a taste or the whole juicy details)

goodreads has released the MOST read books of 2025 so join us in reacting to the 12 top books read as well as the most read books in our favorite genres so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚follow along: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3029-the-most-read-books-of-the-2025-reading-challenge?ref=toprc25_eb

prepare yourself for a spicy magical hallmark worthy holiday romance book by BK Borison where it's like A Christmas Carol BUT instead of a evil capitalist old man we have a quirky new-girl esq lead and the ghost of christmas past can kinda get it 🥵so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚(every review has a non-spoiler review AND spoiler section for if you want just a taste or the whole juicy details) AND JOIN THE HARDCOVER FAM 🤍 / @hardcoverpodcast0:00 Non-Spoiler Review12:10 Star Rating15:00 Spoiler Section#booktube #christmasbooks #holidayromance #bookreview

addie larue's darker older sister, BOBIMS is a vampire novel like none other. we've got original folklore feeling vampires AND gay romances all with v.e. schwab's beautiful prose??

we're so in.

so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

(every review has a non-spoiler review AND spoiler section for if you want just a taste or the whole juicy details)

our top betrayal list of the books we read and HATED from this year but had to finish anyways.... 💔so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

Live react to the 2025 Goodreads Awards! We cover the Romantasy, Fantasy and YA Fantasy/SCI categories with some others sprinkled in. What books do you think deserved to be on the list...and maybe some that don't?!

finalize our 2025 tbrs with us as we chat the 10 books we need to read before the end of 2025 👀so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

returning to the world of bride— we’re back with another paranormal / romantasy ali hazelwood! this time following serena and her alpha keon (it’s better than it sounds we SWEAR) 💚so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

we're back with a bone to pick with the release of book 12 of the fbaa series Primal of Blood and Bone and boy has it gotten worse!! chat with us on the stupidest plot lines and ridiculous length of this never ending series 💀so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

hey swifties! the girlies are going through the 12 tracks of taylor swift's latest album and letting you know which NEW fantasy books you should read based on your favorite songs from the life of a showgirlso join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

welcome back book babes! we're finally in fall the official bookish season!! and we're going through the 20+ books we read in this quarter :)))let's go through all the books we read in Q3 of 2025 ✍️so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

we return to the world of divine rivals for an adult romantasy prequel with wild reverencethis is a story of when a god falls in love with a mortal, of yearning and devotion, and the threads of fate. it's beautiful, it's an original myth, and YOU NEED TO READ IT so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚AND JOIN THE HARDCOVER FAM 🤍 / @hardcoverpodcast0:00 Non-Spoiler Review13:50 Star Rating17:59 Spoiler Section#booktube #romantasy #fantasybooks #divinerivals

back in may the girlies read tomorrow x3 with their book club and it's time to dive into this new age classic for a review! this baby is a life story literary fiction with the added on genre of book club? and you know what... it was a great book club book so if you're interested in potentially picking it up, just want to know what it's all about, or want to reminisce about an old favorite (or that NPC chapter iykyk)– we've got you covered! so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

we are challenging ourselves to guess our favorite fantasy books by only their one star reviews... and getting our feelings hurt in the process 😭so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

does katabasis read like a textbook? girl, absolutely not. this book was one of our most anticipated reads of the year. and we are so excited to sit down and chat about it (at LENGTH). from the worldbuilding and the magic to the romance- we're going through ALL the courts of hell and literature 🕯️so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

sooo we read our first why choose... and it went about as well as you can expect. we're talking romance, fantasy?, and maybe the tiniest little scraps of plot with this review of warrior princess assassin so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

return to the world of a study in drowning with this fantasy dark academia sequel with a darker, quieter story that reckons with deconstructing our heroes and sitting with our struggles 🤎so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚AND JOIN THE HARDCOVER FAM 🤍 / @hardcoverpodcast0:00 Non-Spoiler Review12:34 Star Rating16:26 Spoiler Section#booktube #darkacademia #fantasybooks

the correct ranking of 20+ popular romantasy and fantasy books that we picked up because of booktok!!!so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

straight from the hardcover calendar- we've got our 10 most anticipated fantasy books releasing this fall ⚔️so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

we return to our viking romantasy with a darker, angrier freya after being betrayed by her lover son-in-law bjorn in the final book in the saga of the unfated duology 🔥so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

some books get trapped on the TBR pile and do NOT deserve it. so today we are convincing each other to read those "want to reads" that make us mad that we haven't just done the damn thing yet 👀so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

this haunting, atmospheric dark academia has been a long time coming for the girlies but with book two coming out in a week it was the perfect time to review 🤎we've got a spooky manor on a cliffside, a mystery over the authorship of our fmc's favorite book, AND hallucinations of the fabled fairy king?? count us in. so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚

goodread's has assembled the top 88 most popular romantasy books of the past 3 years (with a star rating above 3.5)- so let's see how many we've read and if they're worth it 👀so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚follow along: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2969-readers-88-favorite-romantasy-books-of-the-past-three-years?content_type=all AND JOIN THE HARDCOVER FAM 🤍 / @hardcoverpodcast 0:00 Goodread's List1:37 88-697:30 68-4916:47 48-2926:36 28-934:28 top 843:38 how many we've read

welcome back book babes! it's that time of the year again with a highlight reel of our reading journey so far in 2025 🤎so join us with a cup of coffee as we dive between these paper sheets ☕📚