The Best Beach-Worthy Books to Read This Summer

Reading this book feels like going on vacation, and getting completely lost (delightfully so) down the winding streets and cool, dark cafes of Paris' Left Bank. Real-life Canadian journalist Jeremy Mercer abandons a tough job on the crime beat and moves to Paris, where broke and burned-out, he discovers Shakespeare and Co., the legendary bookstore and former stomping grounds of Hemingway, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald and crew. Within weeks, he is living in the bookstore with an eclectic cast of characters, including the temperamental proprietor, George Whitman. Just as Jeremy checks out of his old life and immerses himself fully in his new one, prepare too for some serious escapism.