Tomasz's votes on the list Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

Listopia > Tomasz's votes on the list Best Books of the Decade: 1980s (57 Books)

1	Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco 3.91 avg rating — 75,689 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Out of Egypt: A Memoir by André Aciman (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 3,412 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.14 avg rating — 401,118 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4.10 avg rating — 555,858 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich 4.51 avg rating — 40,182 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 3.93 avg rating — 36,474 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich 4.30 avg rating — 12,479 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 2,491,648 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.94 avg rating — 554,079 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman 4.40 avg rating — 1,542 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Third Wave by Alvin Toffler 3.96 avg rating — 2,959 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński 4.23 avg rating — 8,687 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau 3.82 avg rating — 1,469 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson 4.11 avg rating — 16,708 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer 3.80 avg rating — 724 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present by Eric Alfred Havelock 4.01 avg rating — 169 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom 3.76 avg rating — 6,032 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Scapegoat by René Girard 4.13 avg rating — 1,021 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration by Anthony Giddens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 467 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	July's People by Nadine Gordimer 3.51 avg rating — 8,429 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series) by John Finnis 3.89 avg rating — 244 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society by Bruno Latour 4.04 avg rating — 666 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Democracy and Its Critics by Robert A. Dahl 3.84 avg rating — 318 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael J. Sandel 3.90 avg rating — 400 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty 4.14 avg rating — 2,300 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski 3.88 avg rating — 1,802 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Kirinyaga (A Fable of Utopia, #1) by Mike Resnick 4.02 avg rating — 1,192 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler 4.04 avg rating — 20,077 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Children of the Arbat (Arbat Tetralogy, #1) by Anatoly Rybakov 4.22 avg rating — 4,722 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy 4.14 avg rating — 6,546 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy by Viktor Suvorov 4.33 avg rating — 2,244 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2) by Terry Pratchett 4.16 avg rating — 133,365 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 by Alfred W. Crosby 3.98 avg rating — 1,876 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff 4.09 avg rating — 7,056 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn 4.09 avg rating — 270,094 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann 4.32 avg rating — 158 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 4.05 avg rating — 250,332 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	VALIS by Philip K. Dick 3.91 avg rating — 33,332 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 78,994 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee 3.87 avg rating — 21,601 ratings Tomasz rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić 4.17 avg rating — 7,752 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah 3.89 avg rating — 1,054 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 3.99 avg rating — 749,850 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris 3.88 avg rating — 1,951 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 3.71 avg rating — 72,730 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard 3.70 avg rating — 635 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind 4.04 avg rating — 569,816 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) by Terry Pratchett 3.99 avg rating — 427,827 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) by Terry Pratchett 4.24 avg rating — 276,475 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) by Terry Pratchett 4.34 avg rating — 240,520 ratings Tomasz rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2) by Terry Pratchett 4.01 avg rating — 171,447 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley 4.13 avg rating — 214,064 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago 3.82 avg rating — 7,073 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.26 avg rating — 220,610 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking 4.21 avg rating — 486,315 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 134,757 ratings Tomasz rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons 4.28 avg rating — 308,203 ratings Tomasz rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars