1980


The Name of the Rose
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Firestarter
The Twits
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
Waiting for the Barbarians
Congo
A Month in the Country
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Complete Maus
The Shadow of the Torturer
Cosmos
The Mist
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh FermorGreat Plains by Ian FrazierThe Walk West by Peter JenkinsThe Coast Of West Cork by Peter Somerville-LargeRussian Journal by Andrea Lee
Travel Published in Decade: 1980s
30 books — 6 voters
P. S. I Love You by Barbara ConklinDouble Love by Francine PascalSooner or Later by Bruce HartLove Is One of the Choices by Norma KleinChange of Hearts by Linda A. Cooney
Teen Romance of the 1980s
171 books — 39 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesAlanna by Tamora PierceMossflower by Brian JacquesRedwall by Brian Jacques
Children's Fantasy of the 1980s
173 books — 54 voters
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenIzzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
YA Fiction set in the 1980s
128 books — 57 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMatilda by Roald DahlBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,436 voters

Steven Magee
The first generation of cell phone towers were deployed in the 1980’s. In the 2020’s, we are now seeing the long term effects of adult exposure to radio frequency radiation in the over sixty population.
Steven Magee

Marge Piercy
If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it’s not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into the ...more
Marge Piercy, The Moon Is Always Female: Poems

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