1982


The Color Purple
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
Different Seasons
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
The BFG
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
The Running Man
The House of the Spirits
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
Ham on Rye
Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
Schindler’s List
Master of the Game
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Deadeye Dick
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenTiger Eyes by Judy BlumeJacob Have I Loved by Katherine PatersonThe Wave by Todd StrasserCome Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katherine Paterson
1980's Young Adult Standalones
309 books — 23 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth  GeorgeA Time to Kill by John GrishamGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithThe Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
Best Mysteries from the 1980s
202 books — 92 voters

Pawn of Prophecy by David EddingsMagician by Raymond E. FeistThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret WeisQueen of Sorcery by David Eddings
Best Fantasy of the 80s
343 books — 691 voters

The Path to Power by Robert A. CaroThe Last Lion by William ManchesterAllen Ginsberg by Barry MilesMaria Malibran by Howard BushnellOscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Biography Published in Decade: 1980s
128 books — 6 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 — 53 voters

Isabel Allende
Clara habitaba un universo inventado para ella, protegida de las inclemencias de la vida, donde se confundían la verdad prosaica de las cosas materiales con la verdad tumultosa de los sueños.
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

R.J. Intindola
The humble rarely brag about accomplishments because they are typically significant, and their mannerism is one of confidence; but those with low self-esteem have developed a character of conceit and deception. You’re thinking of one now.
R.J. Intindola

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