Summer Challenge 2026: Decade you were born

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books that are set in different decades over the last century.

Updated June 27, 2026
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Sisters in Yellow
Kawakami, Mieko
Paper Book
A gripping, hypnotic account of young women making their way in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that won't heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami. Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial...

Set in the 1990s.

Skylark : a novel
McLain, Paula
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an irresistible story of love, courage and resistance on the streets of Paris - and in the secret network of tunnels that lies beneath * A Good Morning America Book Club pick for January 2026! * 'A real treat' The Times<...

Set in the 1940s.

Daisy Jones & the Six a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
NOW A SMASH HIT AMAZON PRIME TV STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling...

Set in the 1970s.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Honeyman, Gail
Paper Book
Over 3 million copies sold 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes 'Heartwrenching and wonderful' Nina Stibbe Winner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the National Book Awards Book of the Year One of the Sunday Times' 100...

Set in the 2010s.

The Help
Stockett, Kathryn.
Paper Book
Aibileen is a black maid, raising her 17th white child, but with a bitter heart after the death of her son. Minny is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. Skeeter is a white woman with a degree but no ring on her finger. Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine...

Set in the 1960s.

Little Fires Everywhere A Novel
Ng, Celeste.
Paper Book
'Just read it...Outstanding' Matt Haig 'To say I love this book is an understatement...It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon 'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adolescence and...

Set in the 1990s.

Mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...

Set in the 1950s.

Malibu rising : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book' PANDORA SYKES ...

Set in the 1980s.

To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
Paper Book
ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'No one forgets this book' Independent 'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental' Guardian 'There is humour as well as...

Set in the 1930s.

Wonder
Palacio, R. J.
Paper Book

Set in the 2010s.

Lessons in chemistry
Garmus, Bonnie
Paper Book
THE FUNNY AND INSPIRING, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times, Good House Keeping, Woman & Home, Stylist, TLS Oprah...

Set in 1960s.

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Mafi, Tahereh.
Paper Book
''This is a gorgeous book. It''s tender and fierce, beautiful even as it depicts some ugly truths. The prose is passionate and honest, unsentimental and big-hearted. The very best books move you to reconsider the world around you and this is one of those. I truly loved it'' - Nicola Yoon,...

Set in the 2000s.

The perks of being a wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen
Paper Book
A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story.  Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular. Shy,...

Set in the 1990s.

Wrong place wrong time : a novel
McAllister, Gillian
Paper Book
It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime- murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair....

Set in the 2000s.

Silver nitrate
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'Like its namesake, Silver Nitrate catches fire and doesn't stop burning until the end' The Washington Post 'Perfection. No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia' Kiersten White, author of...

Set in the 1990s.

A town called solace
Lawson, Mary
Paper Book
Set in the frozen north of Canada in 1972, this is a beautiful Booker Prize longlisted novel about painful histories that need reckoning with and the moments in life when we can change for the better. 'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her...

Set in the 1970s.

Young Mungo : a novel
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
The number one Sunday Times bestseller, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. 'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates' - The Observer A...

Set in the 1990s.

The Edge of Darkness
Khan, Vaseem.
Paper Book
India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, is exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous Naga Hills District. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to...

Set in the 1950s.

Deep Cuts: A Novel
Brickley, Holly
Paper Book
It was the love story of the decade... Or it should have been ------------------------------------------------ SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM A24, FILMING IN SPRING 2026 'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS ...

Set in the 2000s.


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