SU Press recently launched a Read New York Challenge, a fun way to learn the history, culture and literature of New York State. The Press is providing a list of 12 books in its New York State and Regional Studies Series to read.

Open to all, readers can sign up to participate in the challenge by emailing jadams23@syr.edu and will receive a free e-book each month, a coupon for 40% off the print edition and a monthly newsletter spotlighting the book of the month. Readers can follow SU Press on social media (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube or Blue Sky) for updates on each month’s selection, author profiles and an opportunity to share your thoughts on the book.

The Read New York Challenge includes:

• January: “Declaring Disaster: Buffalo’s Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA” by Timothy W. Kneeland
• February: “Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York” by Stephen J. Riegel
• March: “The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories”  by Sean Kirst
• April: “Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks”  by Philip G. Terrie
• May: “Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks” by Marilyn E. Weigold
• June: “River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson” by Peter Lourie
• July: “A Force of Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions” by David Gibson
• August: “The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal and Architecture in Gilded Age New York”  by Suzanne Hinman
• September: “The Loon Counters: Short Stories“ by Roger Sheffer
• October: “Resting Among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York”  by Steven Huff
• November: “Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days”  by Nina Shengold
• December: “The Tumble Inn”  by William Loizeaux