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Omaha Reading Challenge 2022: Read a Book Published or Set in the Decade You Were Born

OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book published or set in the decade you were born" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

30 items

  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook and mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog. Set in the 1930s; published in the 1950s.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. — 813.54 B181
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook. Set in the 1970s.
    BookNew York, NY : Custom House, [2021] — FICTION Blau 2021
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook. Set and published in the 1990s.
    Book1992. — FICTION Tartt 1992
  • Set and published in the 1920s.
    BookNew York : Modern Library, 1994. — 818 Toomer 1994
  • Set and published in the 1920s.
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018] — FICTION Larsen 1929
  • Set in the 1930s.
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2019. — FICTION Krueger 2019
  • Set in the 1930s; published in the 1980s.
    BookFICTION Walker 1982
  • The Border Trilogy

    All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

    McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog. Set in the 1940s; published in the 1990s.
    BookNew York : Knopf, 1999. — FICTION McCarthy 1999
  • Set in the 1940s; published in the 2000s.
    BookOxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2006. — YAFICTION Boyne
  • The Men in My Life

    a Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan

    Bosworth, Patricia,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog. Set in the 1950s.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2017] — B Bosworth 2017
  • Set and published in the 1950s.
    BookFICTION Ellison 1947
  • Set in the 1950s and 1980s; published in the 1980s.
    BookFICTION King 1980
  • Set in the 1960s.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2019. — FICTION Cleeton 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog. 1960s
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. — 814 Didion 2008
  • Set and published in the 1970s.
    PaperbackNew York : Macmillan Books for Young Readers, [1990], c1970. — jFICTION Blume
  • Set in the 1970s.
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2013. — FICTION Kushner 2013
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog. Set in the 1970s.
    BookNew York : The Penguin Press, 2014. — FICTION Ng 2014