Welcome Readers!
This month the Online Reading Challenge travels back in time to the 1990s. Our main title for August is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart. Here’s a quick summary from the publisher:
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.
They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet as they begin to fall in love, they dream of escape, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him . . . – Grove Press/Picador
Looking for some other books set in the 1990s? Try any of the following.
- Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Survive the Night by Riley Sager
- The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
- The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
- When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!