Sprawling out on a blanket, sunning yourself in Central Park... watching TikTok videos and aimlessly refreshing your Instagram feed just desperate for new posts to bore yourself with. Certainly not the portrait of a summer well spent.

Ditch the phone, pick up a paperback! 

Join a book club (ours is, in our totally unbiased opinion of course, the hottest in New York), be the mysterious woman sitting in a coffee shop nose-deep in a novel, feel more sophisticated than everyone else on the subway...

Whatever setting floats your boat, click through for the ten books every bonafide bookworm in New York is sure to be reading this summer.