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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,557,006 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,709 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,545 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.10 — 568,107 ratings — published 1984
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 385,233 ratings — published 1989
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 379,137 ratings — published 1984
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.39 — 606,573 ratings — published 1987
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,503,121 ratings — published 1985
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.04 — 584,534 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.98 — 771,030 ratings — published 1987
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,150,074 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,748,327 ratings — published 1988
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,281,452 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 406,763 ratings — published 1980
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.94 — 562,402 ratings — published 1985
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 432,955 ratings — published 1983
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 131,666 ratings — published 1985
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 858,278 ratings — published 1987
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,137 ratings — published 1983
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.18 — 437,681 ratings — published 1983
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,776 ratings — published 1985
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 472,363 ratings — published 1986
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,460 ratings — published 1989
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.19 — 324,892 ratings — published 1980
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 346,940 ratings — published 1982
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.23 — 540,695 ratings — published 1982
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,495 ratings — published 1981
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,613 ratings — published 1985
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,033,900 ratings — published 2025
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.67 — 250,640 ratings — published 1984
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,371,971 ratings — published 2021
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.89 — 308,122 ratings — published 1980
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.97 — 251,715 ratings — published 1981
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.73 — 97,890 ratings — published 1985
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.60 — 285,653 ratings — published 1985
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,443 ratings — published 1987
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,343,954 ratings — published 2011
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.90 — 680,862 ratings — published 1982
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 61 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.16 — 256,064 ratings — published 1982
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,768 ratings — published 1981
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.24 — 280,470 ratings — published 1987
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.11 — 157,761 ratings — published 1985
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.28 — 318,184 ratings — published 1989
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.69 — 80,320 ratings — published 1984
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,518 ratings — published 1988
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.80 — 465,581 ratings — published 1987
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 55 times as 1980s)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,151 ratings — published 1987
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.26 — 601,373 ratings — published 1988
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1980s)
avg rating 4.07 — 513,393 ratings — published 2021
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?
If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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“I was fortunate to be a teenager in the nineteen eighties. Back then we had romance, even if it was only in our minds and not real. We had Hollywood, the Oscars, real movie stars, famous authors, and the Olympics. Now, of course, we know that was all just a façade.”
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