Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is “books set before I was born” so if like me, you’re a 90s baby and like me, read only YA which only just started to gain ground in the 90s, you’ll see why I flipped this to books set in the 80s!
Tell The Wolves I’m Home
Themes: Loss, Coming Of Age, AIDs
Annie On My Mind
Themes: Lesbian, First Love, Prejudice
Last Dance At The Frosty Queen
Themes: Small Town, First Love, Male POV
We Are Still Tornadoes
Themes: Post Graduation, Long Distance Friendship, Letter Format
(the whole book is a series of letters)
Bitter Melon
Themes: Chinese-American MC, Parental Expectations, Coming Of Age
Believarexic
Themes: Eating Disorder, Treatment Facility, Own Voices
Butterfly Yellow
Themes: Vietnam War, Refugee In America, Missing Brother
Rainbow Jordan
Themes: Coming Of Age, Missing Mother, Relationships
We Are Lost And Found
Themes: New York, M/M Romance, AIDs Epidemic
A Swift Pure Cry
Themes: Ireland, Religion, Scandal
Vee_Bookish 
Loved the idea for this post. Beautiful content.
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Ooh, this is an awesome take, with even better book selections. I would have mentioned We Are Still Tornadoes if you hadn’t; Annie On My Mind is a solid classic; and while I don’t know Rainbow Jordan I do remember A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich (unforgettable title!) featured on my library’s shelves growing up, though I never got around to it before it was weeded.
Be-lieve-a-rexic and Bitter Melon have both been on my TBR fora while now, and I’m adding Last Dance at the Frosty Queen and A Swift Pure Cry to it right now — most of these authors are new to me but I’ve read a lot of Siobhan Dowd, yet missed that one.
One other recent-but-set-in-the-80s book I recommend is Taking Off by Jenny Moss (…that book is 10 years old already??).
AND just for funsies, a slew of then-contemporary teen novel recs actually from the 80s:
Flight of the Albatross – Deborah Savage
Perdita – Isabelle Holland
To Take A Dare – Crescent Dragonwagon
The Country of Broken Stone – Nancy Bond
Final Grades – Anita Heyman
The Truth Trap – Frances A. Miller
No More Saturday Nights – Norma Klein
Home Sweet Home – Jeanne Betancourt
–RS (your friendly local old-teen-book-loving WIZARD)
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So much book knowledge, that’s amazing thank you!
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Ooh, I love your take on the topic–I haven’t seen anyone do anything similar! I haven’t heard of many of these but We Are Lost and Found is also on my TBR and now I’m curious about Butterfly Yellow! Great list 😊
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I did actually think I’d be seeing a sea of similar posts but haven’t seen anything either!
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Interesting take on this week’s topic! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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Love these.
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I haven’t heard of any of these books before 😲 Butterfly Yellow sounds really interesting!
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I haven’t heard of quite a few of them! It’s always fun finding new books when researching for posts.
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I haven’t heard of any of these books before
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