Dates: 1 February through 15 May, 2010Hosted by: Jill of Fizzy Thoughts
Guidelines:
- Read one book (or more) set in New York City, and post your review.
- All genres are OK - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, graphic novels, audio-books, or even guidebooks. It just has to have New York City as its primary setting.
- No re-reads.
- There will be monthly mini-challenges, and a separate link for posting reviews.
See my original post about the challenge here.
See the challenge announcement/sign-up page here.
See the review page here.
MY READING LIST (books read):
- The Hypnotist. M.J. Rose [See Review]
LIST OF POSSIBILITIES:
- Fiction
The Book of Daniel. E.L. Doctorow
The Company She Keeps. Mary McCarthy
The Doorbell Rang. Rex Stout
The Family Man. Elinor Lipman
Heroic Measures. Jill Ciment
The House of Mirth. Edith Wharton
In the Night Cafe. Joyce Johnson
Laura. Vera Caspary
Lethal Legacy. Linda Fairstein
Manhattan Monologues: Stories. Louis Auchincloss
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. Steven Millhauser
Minor Characters. Joyce Johnson
The New York Trilogy. Paul Auster
Old New York. Edith Wharton
Relic. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Tales of Manhattan. Louis Auchincloss
The Thin Man. Dashiell Hammett
This Dame for Hire. Sandra Scoppettone
Time and Again. Jack Finney
The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties. Tess Slesinger
World's Fair. E.L. Doctorow - Nonfiction
Apple of My Eye. Helene Hanff
Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade. Marvin Mondlin
Here At The New Yorker. Brendan Gill
Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938. Mary McCarthy
Kafka Was All the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir. Anatole Broyard
Manhattan '45. Jan Morris
Manhattan, When I Was Young. Mary Cantwell
New York Days. Willie Morris
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World. Alexander Bloom
The Story of the Armory Show. Milton W. Brown
The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion
The Years with Ross. James Thurber
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