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The Bookstore Challenge 2024 - hosted by thebookstorepod

July - A book published 20 years before you were born
A couple of good resources for this one: wikipedia generally has a "Literature of [year]" list for every year of like the last century at least and GoodReads lists for "books published in [year]".
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

236 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics dark reflective medium-paced
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy #1

Louise Fitzhugh

320 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics middle grade mystery lighthearted medium-paced
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

417 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
Die drei ??? und die silberne Spinne by Robert Arthur

Die drei ??? und die silberne Spinne

Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators #8

Robert Arthur

42 minutes • first pub 1967 (editions) user-added

fiction childrens mystery young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Violent Land by Jorge Amado

The Violent Land

Jorge Amado

368 pages • first pub 1943 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Play It as It Lays

Joan Didion

240 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective sad fast-paced
The Whitsun Weddings: Poems by Philip Larkin

The Whitsun Weddings: Poems

Philip Larkin

46 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
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