1984


1984
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
Animal Farm
The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
Thinner
The Wasp Factory
Bright Lights, Big City
The House on Mango Street
Operation Blue Star: The True Story
The Lover
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas AdamsThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Talisman by Stephen  King
Best Books of 1984
349 books — 161 voters
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenTiger Eyes by Judy BlumeJacob Have I Loved by Katherine PatersonThe Wave by Todd StrasserCome Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katherine Paterson
1980's Young Adult Standalones
311 books — 25 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth  GeorgeA Time to Kill by John GrishamGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithThe Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
Best Mysteries from the 1980s
204 books — 96 voters
The Complete Badger, Volume 1 by Mike BaronThe Collected Neil the Horse by Katherine   CollinsJonny Quest # 1 by Doug WildeyMaus I by Art SpiegelmanRAW NO. 3 by Art Spiegelman
Best Independent Comics of the 1980s
165 books — 3 voters

Judo Kata and Combat Skills by James GoddardEleni by Nicholas GageJack by George SayerThe Lost Continent by Bill  BrysonThe Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1980s
210 books — 20 voters
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue ParkWe Dream of Space by Erin Entrada KellyNobody Was Here  by Alison PolletThe Breadwinner by Deborah EllisCaminar by Skila Brown
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1980s
44 books — 25 voters

Edward Albee
“ I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret. ...more ”
― Edward Albee

George Orwell
“ The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

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