Welcome Readers!
This month the Online Reading Challenge travels back in time to the 1950s & 1960s. Our Main title for May is Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Here’s a quick summary from the publisher:
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.
But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. – Dutton Books for Young Readers
Looking for some other books set in the 1950s or 1960s? Try any of the following.
- Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson
- The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor
- Next Year in Havana or When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!