Caught your attention, didn’t I? The warmer weather has arrived, and New Yorkers are shedding their go-to-black for splashes of color that shake up our funereal uniform. Personally, I love wearing little cashmere cardigans in light parsley-green or bright pink in the summer. (This is not just a fashion strategy, by the way.

The Darlings, by Cristina Alger: I’m eating up this novel about an extraordinarily wealthy New York family embroiled in a financial scandal. Sound familiar?

At the Mercy of the Queen: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, by Anne Clinard Barnhill: For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a Henry VIII/Tudors fanatic; this particular book focuses on the seduction and intrigue of Anne’s ladies-in-waiting.