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1980s Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,451,221 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,657 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,630 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,709 ratings — published 1984
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 364,331 ratings — published 1989
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 366,935 ratings — published 1984
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,479,362 ratings — published 1985
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.39 — 596,693 ratings — published 1987
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 737,248 ratings — published 1987
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,117,768 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,603,885 ratings — published 1988
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,263,837 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.04 — 559,784 ratings — published 1985
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 424,353 ratings — published 1983
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 397,633 ratings — published 1980
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.94 — 549,728 ratings — published 1985
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 127,946 ratings — published 1985
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 452,234 ratings — published 1986
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 857,692 ratings — published 1987
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.18 — 430,344 ratings — published 1983
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.15 — 224,819 ratings — published 1985
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.20 — 317,900 ratings — published 1980
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,502 ratings — published 1981
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 529,789 ratings — published 1982
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.08 — 705,993 ratings — published 1983
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.61 — 100,991 ratings — published 1985
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 711,196 ratings — published 1989
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.30 — 323,601 ratings — published 1982
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.73 — 93,846 ratings — published 1985
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,302,460 ratings — published 2021
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 239,040 ratings — published 1981
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.68 — 237,252 ratings — published 1984
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 300,044 ratings — published 1980
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,308,851 ratings — published 2011
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 273,833 ratings — published 1987
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 251,633 ratings — published 1982
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.93 — 87,642 ratings — published 1987
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,735 ratings — published 1981
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 153,543 ratings — published 1985
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.91 — 667,349 ratings — published 1982
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.58 — 247,600 ratings — published 1985
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,149 ratings — published 1988
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,561 ratings — published 1987
The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.01 — 169,760 ratings — published 1986
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.80 — 453,848 ratings — published 1987
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.70 — 74,407 ratings — published 1984
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
by (shelved 53 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.08 — 186,151 ratings — published 1984
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.26 — 590,736 ratings — published 1988
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.07 — 200,888 ratings — published 1987
“Far too many policies President Reagan enacted during his two terms boasted this "Don't Worry, Be Happy"/"Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" schizophrenia.”
― Horror Films of the 1980s
― Horror Films of the 1980s
“What happened in Scotland in the 1960s and the 1970s and what laid the foundation for the enormous creative achievements of the 1980s was the liberation of the voice. The Scottish voice declared its independence. The liberation of the voice was at first the acceptance of and an assertion of the vernacular. But the real liberation of the voice came not from the assertion of the rights of the vernacular itself, but from the assertion of the right to move without boundaries between the vernacular and standard English, between the demotic and the literary.”
― Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture
― Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture
