There are a lot of things that your star sign might dictate. Your personality. The clothes you wear. The people you're most compatible with in love. Your hobbies, palate, maybe even your career choices.

Whatever you believe, we know that when it comes to our TBR pile, things are getting so out of hand we're willing to look anywhere for a sign to guide us. If you've also been wondering exactly what book you should be picking up next, or help compiling your 2026 reading list, let your star sign lead the way...

Aries: When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter

The long-serving editor of Vanity Fair puts pen to paper about his experiences in the heyday of print media in New York City. For the Aries who loves a good battle of egos, When the Going Was Good serves up New York City’s wild media wars like a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart.

Taurus: Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter

Taurus – you're a homebody at heart, and so is Nova Scotia House's protagonist Johnny Grant. A born outsider, we meet Grant as a 45-year-old HIV-positive man, during the 1990s AIDS crisis. This one's a quieter tale of home, nostalgia, and grief (so bring the tissues nearer). But it's got that heart-swell feeling you're searching for.

Gemini: Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

A chaotic world where nothing is ever quite what it seems is just the place for a Gemini to get lost. Dimes Square darling Madeline Cash's debut novel has made quite the splash (it's the book all the cool girls have been reading in 2026 so far). The dysfunction of the Flynn family is a wild ride – from open marriages to child geniuses to conniving local tech billionaires – it's endlessly entertaining (just like you).

Cancer: Heart the Lover by Lily King

A love story as rich as a five-star dinner – Heart the Lover will have you swimming in amongst a college love triangle that might just come close to the kind of yearning, comfort and emotional devastation of your 409th re-watch of The Notebook.

Leo: Night People by Mark Ronson

Leos already love to shine like a mirrorball, and Mark Ronson's memoir of his rise in the 90s New York Club scene is as glitzy and incantatory as you want all nights out to be. His gilded life and career romanticises everything you love: debauchery, luxury, fame and hedonism.

Virgo: My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

If anyone can appreciate the meticulous, quirky life of Gertrude Stein, it’s you Virgos – and Deborah Levy (who is a Leo but that's neither here nor there). Levy's fictionalised memoir is equal parts organised and chaos, as she tracks the antics of Stein alongside those of her two quirky Parisian friends (and a missing, nameless cat).

Libra: Famesick by Lena Dunham

Libras, you always have your finger on the pulse, and right now there's no more hotly desired book to have in your designer handbag than Lena Dunham's memoir, Famesick. Dunham's recollections of her initial brushings with fame while making Girls will make you laugh at the absurdity of it all, with just enough intellect to keep you yearning for more.

Scorpio: Hooked by Asako Yuzuki

A complex friendship between two unstable women? This sounds like exactly the kind of juicy tale that a Scorpio loves. Yuzuki (who you may know as the author of Butter), debuts her new novel Hooked as a character study of two societal outcasts in Tokyo. It's themed around food, loneliness and womanhood, as well as being darkly, obsessive and thrilling.

Sagittarius: The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

I think you're going to like this one Sagittarius. It's a story about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags. Yes, you read that right. It's enthralling, sensory, uncanny, and original. There's a lot at play here – an exploration of materiality, nature, class, homelessness, and Birkin Pyramid Schemes.

Capricorn: The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, and Sarah Krasnostein

True-crime just feels made for you, Capricorns, and we think you'll appreciate Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein's The Mushroom Tapes. The book chronicles the three authors' private discussions, observations, and reflections while attending the 2025 trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering three people via death cap mushroom poisoning. It's an examination not just of the crime, but of the public's obsession with the case, and a debate of humanity, love, ethics and revenge.

Aquarius: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Aquarians, you would absolutely eat up The Dream Hotel – it’s basically your worst nightmare and favourite conversation topic rolled into one: rogue technology, invasive algorithms, and a woman being detained because her dreams gave off criminal vibes. It’s the perfect book for someone who already thinks their phone is listening to them but also kind of wants to debate the ethics of it over oat milk lattes for three hours.

Pisces: Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

This book is ready to rearrange your emotional ecosystem. It’s not really a novel so much as a beautifully unhinged stream of consciousness where Clarice Lispector spirals through life, time, art, loneliness, desire, and the unbearable intensity of simply existing. (Sounds familiar, right?)