Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I have not found the 70's to be a terribly good decade for publishing. I think I'm going to try and knock this one out early in the year.

I was born in the 60s. I know how to find lists of books published in certain years, but how do we find lists of books set in certain years? I'm sure someone will have helpful lists to share!!! Or I could just read Valley of the Dolls, which was published in the 60s, and I assume also set in the 60s.

80s baby!

Heather wrote: "80s baby!"

Me too ;-) I have never read a book that takes place in the 80's though...

I'm not sure if I have or not....will need to search

Turns out Listopia has us covered because of course

Novels About the 1960s (I'm afraid this list is very USA-centric)

Lists of Books set in other decades (1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, & 1990s - sorry, 70s & 80s babies, for some reason those decades aren't represented! You'll have to search harder!)

Representing the 70’s with The Joy Luck Club book. It’s been on my TBR since my son read it for school; he hated it.

The only one I could think of was Danielle Steel. I remember seeing some of the movies and there are big time shoulder pads in those. So guessing she has written quite a lot in the 80's.

Been looking for some lists
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

I'll see if I can find something here...

Kristin Hannah's new book coming out next year, The Great Alone, is set in the 70's in Alaska!

I read Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty for family member in title this year. It's set in the 60's and 70's.

I like this far better than the book from the year you were born

So if you are from either 80's, 90's or 00 follow the link below and at the top you can find lists for each years best books.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/best_o...

Anabell wrote: "Heather wrote: "80s baby!"

Me too ;-) I have never read a book that takes place in the 80's though..."

Eleanor & Park!

Nadine wrote: "I was born in the 60s. I know how to find lists of books published in certain years, but how do we find lists of books set in certain years? I'm sure someone will have helpful lists to share!!! Or ..."

I totally missed the "set in" part of this prompt. That may help:)

I found this list on GR for Best 1970s Historical Fiction, so it's worth a try. Just make sure you check the dates before you pick a book. I was looking at The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Meyes (#14 on the list), and see that it was set in 1916, and then it jumps to 90 years later or present day. There may be some part of it set in the 1970s, but I didn't see any reviews that mentioned that. A lot of the other books do specifically state they are set in the 1970s, though, so I would say most of the list is good.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Also, if you like YA, here is a list of YA set in the 1970s.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Seconding Eleanor and Park as a recommendation! It's so lovely!

I'm going to do My Best Friend's Exorcism I think (I'm the 80s).

Looks like Eleanor & Park for me. Not so bad, though, because I love Rainbow Rowell's work.

Just a guess but, um... 1984?

Tara wrote: "Just a guess but, um... 1984?"

LOL!

It doesn't work for me, but Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is set in the mid-eighties, I am pretty sure, and it was one of my favorite books of the year.

For the 70s, what about Love Story? I will need to dig deeper to find something I haven't already read, though.

I was born in the 1980's and have found a book that is set the year i was born (1985) and it has been on my TBR list for AGES! Triple win with Starter for Ten

I mis-read the prompt. I was thinking books published in the decade you were born.

Is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman set in the 90's?

Found this 80s list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

So I'm going to say that Ready Player One counts for a book based in the 80s, because even though it is set in the future it is all about people mastering 80s pop culture trivia to finish a grand online scavenger hunt. They talk about the 80s more than they do the future!

Push is set in 1987 I think if anyone had that on their TBR list

My first thought for 80s is something classic by Stephen King - It or Pet Sematary, say. Also The Bonfire of the Vanities.

For more modern books, Let the Right One In or Tell the Wolves I'm Home would work?

Here's another list of books shelved as 1970s: https://www.goodreads.com/genres/1970s

This will be a hard one as I read with another person and we were born in different decades. Maybe try to find the same author?

Xelly wrote: "This will be a hard one as I read with another person and we were born in different decades. Maybe try to find the same author?"

Are you how far apart? Maybe you can find a book set in both.

I am going to read The Girls for a book set in the 60s. It has been on my TBR for a while and I am trying to read mostly from my TBR for the challenges I am doing in 2018.

Tytti wrote: "Xelly wrote: "This will be a hard one as I read with another person and we were born in different decades. Maybe try to find the same author?"

Are you how far apart? Maybe you can find a book set ..."

I read with my mother so 50's and 80's.

Xelly wrote: "I read with my mother so 50's and 80's. "

According to one of our databases, for example Sheltering Rain is set in the 50's, 80's and 90's, there are must be others, too. Maybe S is for Silence.

Xelly wrote: "Tytti wrote: "Xelly wrote: "This will be a hard one as I read with another person and we were born in different decades. Maybe try to find the same author?"

Are you how far apart? Maybe you can fi..."

IIRC, It would work

Sara wrote: "I have not found the 70's to be a terribly good decade for publishing. I think I'm going to try and knock this one out early in the year."

::sigh:: Yeah, let me know if you find anything decent.

Xelly wrote: "Tytti wrote: "Xelly wrote: "This will be a hard one as I read with another person and we were born in different decades. Maybe try to find the same author?"

Are you how far apart? Maybe you can fi..."

I think either Pachinko or Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk would work for you, but I’d double check before you committed to either one.

For those stuck for an idea for books set in the 1970s The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman is one I read this year and is a really good read

I think my problem is that I didn't like the '70s when I was living in them, so why the heck would I want to visit them again in a book? But I've never read Carrie by Stephen King, so maybe I could read that.

I'm also a child of the 70s who disliked them even at the time. This one isn't thrilling me but I hope something will come up. We have a year to find something!

For the seventies, I’m considering The Smell of Other People's Houses, New Boy, Let the Great World Spin, A Fine Balance, Never Fall Down, Pinball, The Brothers K, Burn Baby Burn or The Wild Girls.

Is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman set in the 90's?

I am going to read the books set in 80's. My choices as of now are:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It
1984

Fellow 90s children (and Scooby fans) should check out Meddling Kids. It's labelled as horror, but really it's approximately on par with your average Scooby movie on the Scary Scale.

90s baby here! The Future of Us seems like the kind of book I would enjoy reading.

I'm a 70's kid. I have City on Fire and have wanted to read it for a while, so hopefully I'll have the time to take on this doorstop next year.

Does anyone know any books that take place in the early 00’s? I️ was born in 2000

The Lovely Bones is set in the 70s

Apt Pupil is also set in the 70s.

Station 11 is sometime in the not too distant past. They have cell phones and laptops and stuff. It was released in 2014 but there's no year in it.

Google books about y2k and there are several sci fi books that focus on the millennium bug that everyone was so worried about too

For the 70s, I second "The Lovely Bones" if you haven't read it. It's a wonderful book.