It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today.

Now I want to tell you about something happening over at all of it with Allison Stewart.

It's a summer reading challenge for 2024. I love anything that says challenge in the title.

Here's the gist of it. Eight weeks, four books. There are just over eight weeks between now and Labor Day.

Can you read one book in any of four categories our friends that all of it have put together two categories by way of example a classic you've been meaning to get to and read a book about

about or set in new york here to tell us about this summer reading challenge is jordan lof producer

of all of it for all of it and of the Get Lit with All

It Book Club. Hey, Jordan, glad to have you with us. Hey, Bridget, so glad to be here. Thanks for

having me. And so, Jordan, I'll ask you to list all the applicable categories. And then we're going to

open up the phones to take some book recommendations. But first, do you want to

say anything more about what you're challenging listeners to participate in? Yeah. So I was sort of

thinking about, you know, back in school when you would maybe spin a wheel or have a list of

categories you had to fill out for summer reading. I know for some of us that felt really fun.

For some of us, maybe that felt really daunting. But I wanted to create something sort of similar for adults where I know in the summer we have this long list of books we want to get to, and it can feel

sort of overwhelming to pick and choose. So I thought I would create some categories to help you sort of narrow down your selection.

As you mentioned, there are seven of them, which will go through, I think, in a second.

But the challenge is to read four books by the end of Labor Day weekend.

And we're hoping that you'll do one in any of the four categories.

So it's not like you're reading four books set in New York.

You're reading one set in New York and one classic, et cetera, et cetera. There was some confusion

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