80's Babies (Books Set in the Decade You Were Born - 1980s) - Summer Adventure 2025Like this list

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• Imagine and Build Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Build your own Summer Adventure at AC Library from June 1 to August 1. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries.

• The Great Believers

  Makkai, Rebecca,

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  Fiction - literary. "A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the ways AIDS has affected their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  a Savannah Story

  Berendt, John, 1939-

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  True crime. "Tells the true story of the murder of the local bad boy in the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer in charming Old South Savannah, Georgia." -NoveList

• My Best Friend's Exorcism

  A Novel

  Hendrix, Grady,

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  Fiction - horror. "The year: 1988. The place: Charleston, South Carolina. Abby and Gretchen have been BFFs since fifth grade, but now that they're in high school, Gretchen seems different. After a series of bizarre events, Abby realizes that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna,

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  Fiction - literary, psychological suspense. "A transfer student from a small town in California, Richard Papen is determined to affect the ways of his Hampden College peers, and he begins his intense studies under the tutelage of eccentric Julian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Impossible Beauties

  Cassara, Joseph,

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  Fiction - literary. "Follows a cast of gay and transgender kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s." -NoveList

• The Only One Left

  a Novel

  Sager, Riley,

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  Fiction - thriller, mystery. "In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Gorgeous Excitement

  a Novel

  Weiner, Cynthia,

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  Fiction - literary. "Nina Jacobs navigates her mother's volatile depression and her own struggles for acceptance and independence in gritty 1980s Manhattan after an embarrassing sexual exploit leads her down a dangerous path of drugs and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unsettled

  Mathis, Ayana,

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  Fiction - literary. "From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malibu Rising

  a Novel

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  Fiction. "Four famous siblings throw an epic end-of-summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family’s generations come to light, changing their lives forever." -NoveList

• Devil House

  Darnielle, John,

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  Fiction - psychological thriller. From John Darnielle, best known as the lead singer of the band The Mountain Goats. "An epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling." -NoveList

• Shopgirls

  a Novel

  Blau, Jessica Anya,

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  Fiction - literary. "A novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s, revolving around San Francisco’s most exclusive department store, I. Magnin." -NoveList

• My Government Means to Kill Me

  Newson, Rasheed,

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  Fiction. "A fierce queer coming-of-age story follows the personal and political awakening of a young gay black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of Narcos." -NoveList