Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.
1960s & '70s
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Remember Us
by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: May 2025
Winner: BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.
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Ghost Girl, Banana: A Novel
by Wiz Wharton
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: May 2025
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut ...
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The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel
by Camilla Barnes
Hardcover: Apr 2025
An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
by Bonnie Garmus
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Apr 2025
A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is "irresistible,...
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Real Americans: A Novel
by Rachel Khong
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our ...
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The Café with No Name
by Robert Seethaler
Hardcover: Feb 2025
A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.
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Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
by Colm Toibin
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín'...
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by Karen Valby
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.
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Neighbors and Other Stories
by Diane Oliver
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an ...
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Absolution: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.
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Women's Hotel: A Novel
by Daniel M. Lavery
Hardcover: Oct 2024
Paperback: Sep 2025
From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women's hotel in 1960s New York City.
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Before the Mango Ripens
by Afabwaje Kurian
Hardcover: Sep 2024
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...
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