1980s


The Handmaid's Tale
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Remains of the Day
The Color Purple
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
It
Watchmen
Norwegian Wood
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Matilda
Eleanor & Park
The Alchemist
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
1984 by George OrwellEvery Five Years by Christine ArdigoThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMagic America by C.E. MedfordThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Books Set in the Eighties
208 books — 88 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleDivergent by Veronica Roth
What Women Born in the 80s Read in 2014
978 books — 189 voters

It by Stephen  KingMy Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady HendrixStarr Creek by Nathan CarsonSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPaper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Books Like Stranger Things
161 books — 139 voters


Ruadhán J. McElroy
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. ...more
Ruadhán J. McElroy

Jensen Karp
Every hair metal band in the 1980s followed a very simple, yet effective marketing plan: first release an ear-shattering, head-banging metal song to bring in the guys, then follow it up with a sensitive power ballad to bring in the ladies. Well, in the world of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, He-Man was the head-banging metal song and She-Ra was the power ballad
Jensen Karp, Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s that Rocked

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