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1990s Books Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
The narrators and his friends piece together the events that led up to suicides of the Lisbon girls--brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and saintly Cecilia. The book, and the following film, are very nineties. Published in 1993, it was Eugenides' first novel.
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade. Also released in 1993, this thoughtful children's book is a great read for teens and adults, too.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and other baffling complexities of modern life. This truly funny (and truly 90s) book was a smashing success when released in 1996.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. Published in 1990, this is still considered the essential novel about the war in Vietnam.
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights. Does this 1996 book embrace toxic masculinity or show its ridiculousness? You get to decide.
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Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm. The book won the 1997 National Book Award the year it was published and launched a newfound appreciation of historical fiction.
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A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes. The phenomenon began with this publication in 1997.
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Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests. This dinosaur thriller started scaring people in 1990 when it was released.
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