202 books
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92 voters
1980 Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,581
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.14 — 393,910 ratings — published 1980
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.20 — 314,883 ratings — published 1980
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.89 — 296,786 ratings — published 1980
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,061 ratings — published 1980
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.05 — 440,993 ratings — published 1980
The Twits (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.96 — 154,064 ratings — published 1980
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,654 ratings — published 1980
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.63 — 178,389 ratings — published 1980
A Month in the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,079 ratings — published 1980
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.10 — 281,888 ratings — published 1980
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,917 ratings — published 1980
The Shadow of the Torturer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.84 — 35,181 ratings — published 1980
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,274 ratings — published 1980
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,421 ratings — published 1980
Rage of Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.97 — 40,697 ratings — published 1980
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,492 ratings — published 1980
The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.93 — 109,083 ratings — published 1980
Unfinished Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.02 — 44,088 ratings — published 1980
Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,239 ratings — published 1980
Housekeeping (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,403 ratings — published 1980
The Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.93 — 179,950 ratings — published 1980
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,694,422 ratings — published 1977
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.11 — 540,257 ratings — published 1984
Shadowland (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,730 ratings — published 1980
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,170 ratings — published 1980
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.11 — 238,260 ratings — published 1978
Off Season (Dead River, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,782 ratings — published 1980
The Covenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,909 ratings — published 1980
The Black Lyon (Montgomery/Taggert, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,738 ratings — published 1980
Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.82 — 72,750 ratings — published 1980
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.04 — 548,647 ratings — published 1985
Timescape (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,549 ratings — published 1980
No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,260 ratings — published 1980
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,246 ratings — published 1982
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.97 — 132,545 ratings — published 1981
Asterix and the Great Divide (Asterix #25)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,967 ratings — published 1980
The Girl with the Silver Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,819 ratings — published 1980
Superfudge (Fudge, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.01 — 65,808 ratings — published 1980
Still Life with Woodpecker (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.04 — 83,342 ratings — published 1980
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars Novelizations, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,635 ratings — published 1980
The Ninja (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,092 ratings — published 1980
The Cellar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.63 — 8,763 ratings — published 1980
Comes the Blind Fury (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,626 ratings — published 1980
Fables (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,809 ratings — published 1980
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,591 ratings — published 1976
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 4.28 — 325,746 ratings — published 1987
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1980)
avg rating 3.94 — 544,632 ratings — published 1985
“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”
― The Shock of the New
― The Shock of the New
“…ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood














