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80s Books
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,334,764 ratings — published 2011
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 159,667 ratings — published 2016
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.62 — 105,281 ratings — published 1985
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,276,643 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,527,418 ratings — published 1985
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,349,200 ratings — published 2021
Paper Girls, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,970 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,228 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.98 — 760,547 ratings — published 1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,149 ratings — published 1987
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.89 — 374,602 ratings — published 1984
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.32 — 962,966 ratings — published 2025
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.80 — 376,711 ratings — published 1991
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.39 — 603,759 ratings — published 1987
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.04 — 577,516 ratings — published 1985
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.86 — 130,665 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.14 — 379,191 ratings — published 1989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.10 — 562,001 ratings — published 1984
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.97 — 716,679 ratings — published 1989
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.02 — 151,052 ratings — published 2012
The Impossible Fortress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,073 ratings — published 2017
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,141,080 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,706,030 ratings — published 1988
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.09 — 724,397 ratings — published 1983
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 689,720 ratings — published 2012
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 251,563 ratings — published 1980
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.14 — 404,072 ratings — published 1980
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,176 ratings — published 1984
Brat: An '80s Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,055 ratings — published 2021
Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.44 — 193,199 ratings — published 2020
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,208 ratings — published 2019
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.94 — 558,607 ratings — published 1985
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.15 — 238,699 ratings — published 1985
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.07 — 498,674 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,344,006 ratings — published 2017
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,876 ratings — published 1981
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.07 — 381,637 ratings — published 1981
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,955 ratings — published 1981
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,496,613 ratings — published 1985
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,403 ratings — published 1982
A Month in the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,893 ratings — published 1980
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.81 — 329,409 ratings — published 1981
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.26 — 598,325 ratings — published 1988
“In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts?
But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I’d done to make it all work. I’d mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney’s family-friendliness. Before, I had been blurry—confusing, a thing that only some people could understand. Finally, I had snapped into focus, just in time for the whole world to see.
The eighties, with all its excess and opulence, had also been marred by darkness: the heaviness of crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, the crashes of S&Ls in the markets. There was a yearning for levity in the culture, the very same irreverence and sense of play that had animated me my whole life.
A window opened. I stepped through it.”
― The House of Hidden Meanings
But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I’d done to make it all work. I’d mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney’s family-friendliness. Before, I had been blurry—confusing, a thing that only some people could understand. Finally, I had snapped into focus, just in time for the whole world to see.
The eighties, with all its excess and opulence, had also been marred by darkness: the heaviness of crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, the crashes of S&Ls in the markets. There was a yearning for levity in the culture, the very same irreverence and sense of play that had animated me my whole life.
A window opened. I stepped through it.”
― The House of Hidden Meanings
