The Nostalgia Shelf

The books you read before you knew what a book really was to you. The dog-eared paperback your mother had. The library copy you renewed too many times. This shelf is for the novels and story collections of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s — beautiful current reprints of the titles that shaped readers who are now old enough to seek them out again on purpose. Octavia Butler and Joan Didion share space here with early Stephen King and the illustrated children's editions you'd like to read aloud someday. No irony. Just good books.