The Ultimate Hamptons Weekend, Must-Have Apps, and a Summer Reading List

Designer Charlotte Moss shares her favorite things for summer.

Designer Charlotte Moss at her home in East Hampton. Photography by Trevor Parker

A perfect Hamptons weekend routine:

  • Watch the sun rise
  • Start the day with coffee, dogs and birdsong
  • A bike ride
  • Making flower arrangements for the house
  • Lunch on the terrace
  • A swim
  • Reading, reading, reading
  • And repeat!

Apps you’ve got to download:

  • I can’t live without Audible
  • Live Auctioneers
  • SmartLess
  • BBC’s In Our Time: History, with Melvyn Bragg
  • TED
  • Spotify

My Summer Reading List (So Far!):

  • When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow
  • The Editor by Sara Franklin
  • The American Experiment by David Rubenstein
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • Table for Two by Amor Towles
  • Summer by Edith Wharton
  • Wives like Us by Plum Sykes
  • I’m looking forward to The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians by James Patterson

Entertaining Essential:

Start with a positive attitude and a desire to do it, then things will fall into place more easily.