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1980s Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,365,096 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 482,633 ratings — published 1987
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 533,439 ratings — published 1984
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,010 ratings — published 1982
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 350,925 ratings — published 1989
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 358,648 ratings — published 1984
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.39 — 590,397 ratings — published 1987
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,460,181 ratings — published 1985
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,248,216 ratings — published 2012
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 711,883 ratings — published 1987
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,089,903 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,488,509 ratings — published 1988
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 417,442 ratings — published 1983
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,071 ratings — published 1980
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.94 — 540,810 ratings — published 1985
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.04 — 539,824 ratings — published 1985
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 125,224 ratings — published 1985
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.29 — 435,534 ratings — published 1986
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,397 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 — 312,542 ratings — published 1980
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 828,854 ratings — published 1987
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,685 ratings — published 1981
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.08 — 681,606 ratings — published 1983
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.18 — 423,738 ratings — published 1983
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 520,723 ratings — published 1982
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.60 — 96,749 ratings — published 1985
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 706,140 ratings — published 1989
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.73 — 91,073 ratings — published 1985
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.29 — 311,495 ratings — published 1982
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,260,133 ratings — published 2021
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,276 ratings — published 1981
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.69 — 227,326 ratings — published 1984
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,280,518 ratings — published 2011
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 294,530 ratings — published 1980
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,155 ratings — published 1982
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 86,135 ratings — published 1987
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 268,373 ratings — published 1987
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.01 — 76,074 ratings — published 1981
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.91 — 655,889 ratings — published 1982
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 150,266 ratings — published 1985
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.79 — 444,092 ratings — published 1987
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 — 183,564 ratings — published 1984
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,400 ratings — published 1984
The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.01 — 166,369 ratings — published 1986
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,019 ratings — published 1988
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 51 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 85,517 ratings — published 1987
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.57 — 229,715 ratings — published 1985
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.27 — 291,659 ratings — published 1989
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 334,365 ratings — published 1989
“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
“It is the first day of spring. The council have chopped all the elms down in Elm Tree Avenue. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole”
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