Backlist Retro Reads - 80s and 90s

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19 Apr 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

Challenging myself to read 15 books in 2024 that were originally published in the 1980s and 1990s

Challenge Books

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Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

Terminal Boredom

Izumi Suzuki

224 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction dystopian science fiction short stories speculative fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Some Sexual Success Stories: Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear by Diane Williams

Some Sexual Success Stories: Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear

Diane Williams

132 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Vita Nova by Louise Glück

Vita Nova

Louise Glück

64 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction poetry reflective medium-paced
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Essential Mike Davis

Mike Davis

496 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging slow-paced
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin

242 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Real Women Have Curves by Josefina López

Real Women Have Curves

Josefina López

80 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction play emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories by Ann Beattie

Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories

Ann Beattie

208 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri

198 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Come to Me by Amy Bloom

Come to Me

Amy Bloom

180 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction contemporary short stories reflective fast-paced
Love Junkie by Robert Plunket

Love Junkie

Robert Plunket

256 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction contemporary funny reflective fast-paced