Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne) and Brisbane Times publish a shared feature highlighting what their journalists and editors read when they are off the clock. Each outlet’s article presents a set of “favourite books” drawn from staff across their newsrooms, covering titles they recommend as personal reading picks. The pieces are framed as a look beyond the articles journalists write for work, offering readers insight into their interests and tastes outside daily reporting. While the publication names differ across outlets, the structure and premise of the story are the same: staff contributions form the basis of the recommendations, and the collection is released for the first half of 2026. The articles do not indicate a single theme common to all lists in the information provided here; instead, they serve as a curated roster of individual recommendations. Across sources, the emphasis remains on the same idea—using journalists’ reading habits to provide a more personal connection to the people behind the journalism.