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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,570,076 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 516,257 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,593 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.10 — 570,657 ratings — published 1984
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 388,056 ratings — published 1989
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 381,285 ratings — published 1984
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.39 — 608,439 ratings — published 1987
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,506,085 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.98 — 775,371 ratings — published 1987
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.04 — 587,977 ratings — published 1985
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,154,084 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,765,955 ratings — published 1988
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,283,740 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,068 ratings — published 1980
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.94 — 564,242 ratings — published 1985
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 434,163 ratings — published 1983
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,113 ratings — published 1985
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 863,016 ratings — published 1987
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.09 — 736,444 ratings — published 1983
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.18 — 438,694 ratings — published 1983
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 247,449 ratings — published 1985
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 475,343 ratings — published 1986
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 719,291 ratings — published 1989
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.19 — 325,904 ratings — published 1980
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 541,990 ratings — published 1982
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 349,701 ratings — published 1982
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,857 ratings — published 1981
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,181 ratings — published 1985
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,059,833 ratings — published 2025
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.67 — 252,424 ratings — published 1984
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,379,195 ratings — published 2021
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 309,254 ratings — published 1980
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 253,608 ratings — published 1981
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.72 — 98,420 ratings — published 1985
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.60 — 291,615 ratings — published 1985
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.90 — 682,878 ratings — published 1982
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,702 ratings — published 1987
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,348,185 ratings — published 2011
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 61 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 256,703 ratings — published 1982
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 320,436 ratings — published 1989
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 82,098 ratings — published 1981
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 281,398 ratings — published 1987
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 158,349 ratings — published 1985
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.69 — 81,146 ratings — published 1984
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.80 — 466,923 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,728 ratings — published 1988
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.26 — 603,196 ratings — published 1988
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 55 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,472 ratings — published 1987
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.07 — 521,797 ratings — published 2021
“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.”
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“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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