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Go Cybernaut Summer Reads 2026: Part Two
Six More Cybernauts, Twelve Uplifting Escapes
Summer reading does not have to be homework in a floppy hat.
For Part Two of the Go Cybernaut Summer Reads project, six more Cybernauts have chosen a fiction and non-fiction companion for the season. These are books for slow mornings, cottage afternoons, park benches, coffee-break corners, and the little windows of quiet we build into a busy day.
No political thunderclouds. No controversy for controversy’s sake. Just stories, ideas, recipes, road maps, art, music, beauty, and gentle reminders that curiosity is still one of life’s finest forms of travel.
Poppy Sawayama
Asia Travel Writer
Fiction Pick: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Non-Fiction Pick: Art Destinations: 70 Places to See Great Art, From Epic Street Murals to Masterpieces by Lonely Planet
Poppy’s summer stack is a passport stamped in wonder. Water Moon opens the door to a dreamlike Tokyo fantasy and a remarkable place where people can pawn their regrets. Art Destinations then carries the reader outward, through seventy art-centred journeys filled with murals, galleries, masterpieces, and creative discovery.
This is a pairing for the person who believes a journey can begin with a train ticket, a museum map, or one beautifully strange idea.
Summer reading mood: Iced jasmine tea, a notebook for future destinations, and a window open to evening air.
Eileen Call
USA Travel Writer
Fiction Pick: The Love Haters by Katherine Center
Non-Fiction Pick: Fodor’s Best Road Trips in the USA: The 52 Best Road Trips in America
Eileen has packed sunshine, sea air, and a roadmap with no wrong turns. The Love Haters is a bright Key West romantic comedy centred on a video producer, a rescue swimmer, and a reluctant return to the water. Fodor’s Best Road Trips in the USA follows with fifty-two routes ready to inspire a real-life detour.
One book says love may arrive when you stop trying to control every wave. The other says there is probably a diner, lookout point, or small-town curiosity waiting just beyond the next bend.
Summer reading mood: Sunglasses on, playlist up, snacks within reach.
Sam Grayson
Music Editor
Fiction Pick: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Non-Fiction Pick: Sharing in the Groove by Mike Ayers
Sam’s selections are tuned to connection. The Correspondent follows a woman whose letters become a path back toward memory, friendship, and possibility. Sharing in the Groove looks back at the 1990s jam-band scene and the artists, fans, and independent spirit that made a musical community hum.
Together, these books understand something Sam knows well: a song, a letter, or a shared memory can travel farther than we expect.
Summer reading mood: A porch at dusk, soft speakers nearby, and the feeling that an old favourite deserves one more listen.
Natalia Flores
Fashion & Beauty Editor
Fiction Pick: It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan
Non-Fiction Pick: The Nature of Fashion: A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives by Carry Somers
Natalia’s summer choices are stitched with confidence, history, and a little cinematic sparkle. It’s a Love Story follows a former television actress turned Hollywood producer whose carefully built life is interrupted by a return to the past and the possibility of real love. The Nature of Fashion explores the plant life and natural materials woven into the story of what we wear.
This pairing is for anyone rediscovering their own style, not as costume, but as a way of showing up more honestly in the world.
Summer reading mood: A favourite lipstick, bare feet on the grass, and a closet viewed with fresh eyes.
Eliza Bloom
Food Editor
Fiction Pick: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods
Non-Fiction Pick: Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat
Eliza’s selections arrive warm from the oven. The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris is an enchanting, escapist tale of a bakery touched by secrets, magic, friendship, and the possibility of beginning again. Good Things brings recipes and rituals designed around gathering, sharing, and making ordinary days feel more generous.
This is summer reading for people who believe a good meal can be both nourishment and a tiny act of welcome.
Summer reading mood: Fresh bread, a sunlit kitchen, and someone you love wandering in to ask what smells so good.
Abbie Webster
Neurodiversity Writer
Fiction Pick: A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Non-Fiction Pick: Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith
Abbie’s pair is soft, whimsical, and quietly restorative. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping brings an enchanted inn, a second chance, and a talking fox into a warm-hearted magical adventure. Sharing the Light offers short stories, reflections, and gentle questions shaped around gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope. Published in January 2026, it is a thoughtful book for returning to one’s own inner light at an unhurried pace.
These are books for the days when the nervous system needs kindness, the imagination needs room, and a small reminder of your own goodness feels like useful medicine.
Summer reading mood: A soft blanket, a favourite mug, and absolutely no pressure to read quickly.
These twelve books are an invitation to wander without rushing, to learn without pressure, and to let a good story or thoughtful idea brighten the shape of an ordinary day. From moonlit cities and open roads to shared tables, music rooms, gardens of imagination, and quiet corners of home, each choice offers its own small doorway into wonder. Read one that calls to you, pass another along, and let this summer’s reading list become part of the gentle, curious life you are building.
More Summer Books – This summer, every Cybernaut is packing two books: one work of fiction for wandering into another world, and one nonfiction title for carrying a new idea back into everyday life.
These are books for cottage porches, beach towels, ferry rides, backyard chairs, coffee-break corners, parks at lunchtime, and those rare golden hours when the day politely asks nothing of you.
The Go Cybernaut Summer Reading Invitation
You do not need a perfect beach, a cottage, a holiday, or a whole free afternoon to join this project.
You only need a book and a little room to meet it.
Read one page while the kettle boils. Read three chapters on a ferry. Read during your lunch break. Read in a waiting room. Read under a blanket while summer rain taps the window. Read a novel that lets you disappear for a while. Read nonfiction that gives your brain a new window.
This summer, let us make reading feel less like a task and more like a small act of returning to ourselves.
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