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Decade 2
Any decade counts, as long as each prompt is a different decade.
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Fast Pitch by Nic Stone

Fast Pitch

Nic Stone

192 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction middle grade adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Recitatif

Toni Morrison

1 hour, 55 minutes • first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
The Street by Ann Petry

The Street

Ann Petry

436 pages • first pub 1946 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes

256 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

485 pages • first pub 1866 (editions)

fiction classics crime literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos

Doña Barbara

Rómulo Gallegos

440 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous emotional slow-paced
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play in Two Acts by August Wilson

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play in Two Acts

The Century Cycle #3

August Wilson

111 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction play challenging reflective sad medium-paced
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

3 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective fast-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

292 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced