Best Summer Reads

💻 Eli Novak

Role: Web Specialist

📖 Fiction

The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown

A mysterious object, a secret society, and a world that may be far stranger than it first appears give Eli plenty to explore in this imaginative novel.

For someone who spends his days navigating the structures behind digital spaces, a story built around hidden systems and curious discoveries feels like an ideal summer escape. Eli’s curiosity would keep him turning pages, looking for patterns and wondering what might be concealed just beyond the obvious.

📘 Non-Fiction

What We Ask Google by Emily Durham

The things we type into a search box can reveal our curiosities, worries, passing thoughts, and wonderfully peculiar questions.

For Eli, a book exploring our relationship with search and the digital world feels especially appropriate. It’s a reminder that behind every query is a human being looking for something, whether that’s an answer, an idea, reassurance, or the beginning of a completely unexpected journey.

Why these picks?

As Go Cybernaut’s Web Specialist, Eli understands that curiosity is one of the internet’s most powerful engines. His summer selections celebrate hidden systems, unusual questions, and the irresistible urge to click, explore, and discover what comes next.

🔮 Grace Frye

Role: New Age Writer

📖 Fiction

The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

A magical greenhouse, unexpected companionship, and a gentle journey toward rediscovering purpose make this cosy fantasy a natural choice for Grace.

Filled with warmth and wonder, the story offers the kind of imaginative retreat made for a quiet summer afternoon. Grace would be drawn to its softer magic and the possibility that growth can happen slowly, quietly, and in places we never expected.

📘 Non-Fiction

The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad

Built around the creative and reflective practice of journaling, The Book of Alchemy invites readers to pay closer attention to their inner worlds and everyday experiences.

Grace’s work often lives in that thoughtful space between reflection, intuition, and possibility. This is the kind of book she might read slowly, with a notebook nearby and no particular need to rush toward the final page.

Why these picks?

As Go Cybernaut’s New Age Writer, Grace is naturally drawn to reflection and the quieter rhythms of personal discovery. Her summer books offer two different kinds of sanctuary: one found inside an enchanted greenhouse and another waiting on the blank page.

🎨 Rowan Okafer

Role: Illustrator

📖 Fiction

The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall

Books, secrets, imagination, and an adventure shaped by the unexpected give Rowan a fictional world filled with visual possibilities.

An illustrator rarely encounters a story only through words. Characters acquire expressions. Rooms develop colour palettes. Strange objects begin demanding their own corners of the page. Rowan’s imagination would have plenty of room to wander here.

📘 Non-Fiction

Don’t Call It Art by Austin Kleon

A celebration of creative play, experimentation, and looking at the world with fresh eyes, Don’t Call It Art encourages readers to make things before worrying too much about labels.

This may be one of the most Rowan-shaped books on our summer shelf.

There is permission here to make a mess, follow curiosity, and create before deciding what the finished thing is supposed to become.

Why these picks?

As Go Cybernaut’s Illustrator, Rowan brings imagination into visible form. His summer choices celebrate unruly ideas and creative play, reminding us that sometimes the most interesting work begins with a pencil, a curious thought, and absolutely no sensible plan.

🎥 Chase Li

Role: Videographer

📖 Fiction

The Unmapping by Denise S. Robbins

When familiar geography begins to change, the world itself becomes part of the story.

Chase would be intrigued by a novel that asks readers to reconsider space, movement, and perspective. Its shifting environments offer the kind of visual puzzle that might have a videographer mentally framing shots, imagining transitions, and wondering how the story could move from page to screen.

📘 Non-Fiction

Gladiator II: The Art and Making of the Ridley Scott Film by John Walsh

A spectacular behind-the-scenes journey into the creation of a major cinematic production, this richly illustrated book explores the sets, costumes, practical effects, digital artistry, and immense visual planning involved in bringing Ridley Scott’s world to the screen.

For Chase, it’s the kind of summer book that can be opened for ten minutes and still lead to an hour of studying images, production choices, and the countless creative decisions hiding inside a finished film.

Why these picks?

As Go Cybernaut’s Videographer, Chase thinks in movement, framing, and visual rhythm. His selections pair a fictional world where familiar geography begins to shift with a fascinating look behind the camera at how an enormous cinematic world is carefully constructed, shot by shot.

📷 Veda Shah

Role: Visual Content Specialist

📖 Fiction

The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

A story of alternate possibilities and the lives we imagine we might have lived gives Veda a wonderfully visual summer read.

The idea of seeing one life through different frames feels particularly suited to someone who works with visual content. A change in perspective can transform the entire story, whether we’re looking through a camera, designing an image, or reconsidering our own path.

📘 Non-Fiction

Atlas of Echoes by Sarah van Rij

Photographer Sarah van Rij’s visual world moves between street photography, landscapes, still life, self-portraits, and handmade collage, creating new narratives from images and recurring details.

Veda would be especially drawn to the way shapes, shadows, and everyday observations can become a visual language. It is a book for looking slowly and noticing the quiet stories hiding inside an image.

Why these picks?

As Go Cybernaut’s Visual Content Specialist, Veda understands that seeing is an active creative process. Her summer selections explore perspective, possibility, and the visual clues that can turn an ordinary moment into a story worth sharing.

🌍 Cero Sullivan

Role: Gen-Next Voice of Go Cybernaut

📖 Fiction

Press 1 for Invasion  by J. A. Dauber

All he wanted was a cell phone. Somehow, saving the world from an alien invasion became part of the deal.

Fast, funny, and packed with unexpected twists, Press 1 for Invasion gives Cero exactly the kind of summer adventure that can turn “I’ll read one chapter” into a mysteriously missing afternoon.

Technology, aliens, big problems, and a young person suddenly responsible for figuring things out? Cero is definitely pressing 1.

📘 Non-Fiction

Omnibird: An Avian Investigator’s Handbook  by Giselle Clarkson

Birds are everywhere, but the closer you look, the stranger, funnier, and more extraordinary they become.

Packed with curious facts and playful illustrations, Omnibird turns birdwatching into an investigation. It’s exactly the sort of book Cero could carry outside, spot something with wings, and immediately disappear down a new curiosity trail.

Cero would probably begin by identifying one bird and end the afternoon wondering about migration, feathers, dinosaur ancestors, and whether pigeons are secretly judging us.

Why these picks?

As the youngest Cybernaut and the Generation Alpha voice inside Go Cybernaut, Cero brings curiosity, humour, and a wonderfully modern way of looking at the world.

His tween summer reading choices pair a wildly entertaining alien adventure with a playful investigation of the birds living all around us.

Because when you’re Cero, the next discovery might be in outer space or sitting on the fence outside your window. 🌍👽🐦

🌞 Six Guides, Twelve Books, and Plenty of Summer Left

Part Four of our Go Cybernaut Summer Reads 2026 collection reminds us that creativity and curiosity don’t always arrive while we’re sitting at a desk.

Sometimes they appear while reading about an enchanted greenhouse.

Sometimes they begin with an unruly idea scribbled in the margin.

They might arrive through the movement of a camera, an unexpected photograph, a strange question typed into a search box, or a tween reader looking up from a book because the bird outside the window suddenly deserves a closer look.

Eli, Grace, Rowan, Chase, Veda, and Cero each bring a different lens to Go Cybernaut, and their summer reading choices reflect those wonderfully individual ways of exploring the world.

Across these twelve books, we find mystery and magic, journaling and artistic play, filmmaking and photography, alternate possibilities, alien invasions, curious birds, and the glorious habit of asking one more question.

So find a comfortable chair. Claim the shady spot. Pour something cold. Turn off a notification or twelve.

There’s still plenty of summer left, and somewhere in this growing Go Cybernaut bookshelf, your next great read may already be waiting.

Happy summer reading from all of us at Go Cybernaut. ☀️📚🌿