Oct 3, 2026 · 9 min · 7 segments
Sarah and Cynthia share their picks for Fall 2026 reading. With so many great books to choose from, here is a head start on what to pick up and add to your TBR. While you're enjoying your Fall reads…
Okay, so we each have three fall finds to share with you.
Cindy, do you want to go first? I will.
It comes out September 1st.
That was a good book.
Yeah, I remember reading that a few years ago and I really enjoyed it.
So that's why this popped up for me as likely a good fall read.
So here's the brief synopsis.
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known.
For 10 hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica.
She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and family.
But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't escape her past.
When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband Eli will not be far behind.
Laurel is captivated by the Ark, its surreal glow, the way it seems almost alive.
And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Ark leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine.
Sounds interesting.
All right,
so what's your first
one? Okay, so my first book is An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem, who recently passed away, sadly.
That comes out September 22nd.
And when trad wife has become the phrase of the year and reproductive rights are being gutted, it's a good time to revisit how women in the 1960s and 70s won the very freedoms that are now in danger of being lost again.
It's been a long and painful process, but few do it with so much verve as Gloria Steinem, whose new book, An Unexpected Life, traces personal and public history up through the 1970s women's strike for equality as a broader reflection of her current political movement.
It also says, don't be fooled, it's a page turner too.
The tone is fast-paced and historic.
Okay, so we each have three fall finds to share with you.
Cindy, do you want to go first? I will.
It comes out September 1st.
That was a good book.
Yeah, I remember reading that a few years ago and I really enjoyed it.
So that's why this popped up for me as likely a good fall read.
So here's the brief synopsis.
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known.
For 10 hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica.
She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and family.
But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't escape her past.
When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband Eli will not be far behind.
Laurel is captivated by the Ark, its surreal glow, the way it seems almost alive.
And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Ark leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine.
Sounds interesting.
All right,
so what's your first
one? Okay, so my first book is An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem, who recently passed away, sadly.
That comes out September 22nd.
And when trad wife has become the phrase of the year and reproductive rights are being gutted, it's a good time to revisit how women in the 1960s and 70s won the very freedoms that are now in danger of being lost again.
It's been a long and painful process, but few do it with so much verve as Gloria Steinem, whose new book, An Unexpected Life, traces personal and public history up through the 1970s women's strike for equality as a broader reflection of her current political movement.
It also says, don't be fooled, it's a page turner too.
The tone is fast-paced and historic.
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