You can get books on tape through the public library system. With
inter-library loan you can find just about anything.

All of these are available on tape :
Pete Hamil's Forever is an excellent magic-realism (over several centuries
time) in Manhattan.
His Snow in August is good also.(Brooklyn)

Early New York city;
Paradise Alley : A Novel
by Kevin Baker
and
Dreamland : A Novel
by Kevin Baker
Also the Caleb Carr historic novels, and Time and Again by Jack Finney (this
one is definitely good for a driveway moment ... when you arrive somewhere
but just can't stop listening to your book on tape!)

City of Light
by Lauren Belfer
(Niagra Falls 1901)

The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy
and his Albany trio
Ironweed by William Kennedy
Legs by William Kennedy
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
(actually there are about 7 books in the series)

WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR: A MEMOIR
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Baseball and the 1950s)

Here at the New Yorker
by Brendan Gill



Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
Changed the Course of World War II
by Jennet Richards Conant
and
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
by Anthony Bourdain
and
Water for Gotham: A History
by Gerard T. Koeppel
are good recent books, but I'm not sure if they are recorded.

and finally,   Horatio's Drive by Ken Burns and D. Duncan is not about New
York until the very end but is wonderfully entertaining story of the first
road trip across America.



>From: "Daniel H. Weiskotten" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State
>          history." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: NY books on tape
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:57:46 -0400
>
>I've been doing a lot of travel lately and am running out of interesting
>books on tape to listen to.
>
>Are there any good NY state titles that have been recorded for poor souls
>like me?
>
>        Dan W.
>
>
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