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1980s Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,524,281 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 507,796 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 767,716 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.10 — 561,427 ratings — published 1984
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 378,534 ratings — published 1989
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 374,257 ratings — published 1984
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.39 — 603,445 ratings — published 1987
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.98 — 759,508 ratings — published 1987
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,495,911 ratings — published 1985
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.04 — 576,763 ratings — published 1985
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,140,129 ratings — published 1988
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,276,161 ratings — published 2012
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,701,716 ratings — published 1988
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 403,797 ratings — published 1980
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 430,329 ratings — published 1983
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.94 — 558,202 ratings — published 1985
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 130,549 ratings — published 1985
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 847,809 ratings — published 1987
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 465,823 ratings — published 1986
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.15 — 238,064 ratings — published 1985
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.18 — 435,410 ratings — published 1983
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.09 — 723,600 ratings — published 1983
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.19 — 322,734 ratings — published 1980
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 716,489 ratings — published 1989
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,686 ratings — published 1981
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 339,450 ratings — published 1982
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 537,475 ratings — published 1982
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.62 — 105,136 ratings — published 1985
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 305,447 ratings — published 1980
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.73 — 96,709 ratings — published 1985
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.67 — 246,775 ratings — published 1984
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,346,706 ratings — published 2021
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 247,170 ratings — published 1981
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.32 — 954,317 ratings — published 2025
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,101 ratings — published 1987
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,333,749 ratings — published 2011
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 254,675 ratings — published 1982
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.91 — 676,662 ratings — published 1982
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.59 — 272,366 ratings — published 1985
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 278,438 ratings — published 1987
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 312,995 ratings — published 1989
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,848 ratings — published 1981
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 156,375 ratings — published 1985
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.70 — 78,267 ratings — published 1984
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.80 — 462,240 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,106 ratings — published 1988
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,307 ratings — published 1987
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.26 — 597,973 ratings — published 1988
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.08 — 188,480 ratings — published 1984
“It was 1984, unmistakably so—Jordache and Calvin Klein jeans hugged long legs, paired with pastel tees, Harvard sweatshirts, or blouses that shimmered slightly in the dim lighting. Some girls wore their hair big—carefully styled into perfect waves—while others let theirs fall straight and sleek. The guys were a mixed bunch. A few clung to longish late-‘70s cuts, holding onto an era just barely past; others kept their crewcuts sharp, the kind of clean-cut presence that screamed ROTC. Some went for the middle ground—short, conservative styles, neatly in place.
Most of them were either rowdy or lucky enough to be paired off—dancing, swaying in time, or pressed into corners, lost in whispered conversations or half-hearted make-outs.”
― Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story (The Reunion Series
Most of them were either rowdy or lucky enough to be paired off—dancing, swaying in time, or pressed into corners, lost in whispered conversations or half-hearted make-outs.”
― Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story (The Reunion Series
“There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
