14 Books Set in the 1980s, From Malibu Rising to Trust Exercise

Jacqueline Woodson's Red at the Bone ($13, originally $16) spans several decades of one family's history, from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to a night in 2001, where 16-year-old Melody is making her entrance at her coming-of-age ceremony, wearing a dress originally made for her mother to wear at her own ceremony 16 years prior. The 1985 ceremony never took place due to Melody's then 16-year-old mother being pregnant with her, and so, Woodson's story of how each of Melody's family members came to be in this very moment in 2001 unfolds.