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This month the Online Reading Challenge travels back in time to the 1980s. Our main title for July is Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman. Here’s a quick summary from the publisher:
André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.
The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman’s frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable. – Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Looking for some other books set in the 1980s? Try any of the following.
- American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!