For the beach
Glorious Tuga
By Francesca Segal
Francesca Segal’s Glorious Tuga trilogy follows vet Charlotte Walker’s adventures on the sun-soaked island of Tuga de Oro — a warm, witty series about love, family, and finding your place. Books one and two, Welcome to Glorious Tuga and Island Calling, are out now.
For the aesthete
Sofia Coppola Archive
By Sofia Coppola
A richly intimate portrait of Sofia Coppola’s cinematic world, Archive traces her career from The Virgin Suicides to Priscilla. Drawing from her personal collection of photographs, scripts, and behind-the-scenes notes, it’s a rare insight into a visionary filmmaker’s enduring aesthetic.
For the classist
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë
Part of the Vintage Classics Brontë Series, this stunning edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is the perfect time to revisit (or discover) the Gothic classic, especially with the much-anticipated screen adaptation arriving in February.
For the realist
Bread of Angels
By Patti Smith
The award-winning artist and writer returns with her most intimate memoir to date. Bread of Angels traces her journey from restless adolescence to her bohemian New York years. Here she learns to merge poetry and song, love and grief, in a life devoted to creation. A mesmerising meditation on art and loss.
For the flâneur
America Day by Day
By Simone de Beauvoir
A chronicle of her 1947 journey across the United States. From the glittering skylines of New York to the smokey jazz clubs of Chicago and New Orleans, she captures the rhythm, contradictions, and vitality of post-war America with wit, intellect, and Parisian flair.
For the literary crowd
Audition
By Katie Kitamura
An accomplished actress and an attractive younger man meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. What follows is a taut, brilliantly constructed novel from the author of Intimacies, that asks who we are to the people we love. Mesmerising and compulsively readable, this is Kitamura at her best.
For the mind
No Straight Road Takes You There
By Rebecca Solnit
No Straight Road Takes You There gathers Solnit’s most powerful recent essays on activism, feminism, and change. With her signature lyricism, and clarity, she explores how indirect paths, collective action, and embracing imperfection can lead us towards a more just and hopeful world.
For the heart
Heart the Lover
By Lily King
Heart the Lover by Lily King follows three creative writing students whose bond spans decades, it captures the intensity of first love, and the unspoken what-ifs that linger long after. This novel will sweep you up, break you apart, and stay with you long after the final page.
For the ambitious
Workhorse
By Caroline Palmer
Workhorse is a sharp, darkly funny novel about ambition, envy, and the price of belonging in New York’s high fashion world. Set in 2001, it follows Clo Harmon, determined to rise above her “workhorse” status and risks everything to infiltrate the city’s glossy, glittering elite.
For the soul
The Art of Joy
By Jen Sievers
The Art of Joy by Jen Sievers is a radiant guide to everyday wellbeing, blending journaling, mindful rituals, and creativity to help you reconnect with your heart and mind. A gentle invitation to slow down, play, and cultivate joy in the small moments.
For the curious
Good Things Come and Go
By Josie Shapiro
Good Things Come and Go is a moving novel about friendship, ambition, and the weight of the past. When three friends reunite on the Coromandel, old secrets resurface, forcing them to confront loss, love, and the risks we take in rebuilding our lives.
For the jet-setter
Wreck
By Catherine Newman
Wreck is a funny, big-hearted romp through the chaos of family life — messy, loving, and delightfully relatable. When anxious, endlessly overthinking Rocky starts spiralling, her year turns into a hilarious, heartfelt rollercoaster.
This article originally appeared in Fashion Quarterly’s Summer 2026 issue.
Words: Mandy Myles
