The Best Of The 1980s
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Sun-News, 20 Books
The Best Of The 1980s from a newspaper article on December 22nd, 1989 from the Associated Press Editors.
This list was originally published in 1989 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3069 | An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1986 | British | English | |
| 49 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | American | English | |
| 310 | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 1987 | American | English | |
| 1331 | Cathedral | Raymond Carver | 1983 | American | English | |
| 988 | Flaubert's Parrot | Julian Barnes | 1984 | British | English | |
| 10876 | The Floating World | Cynthia Kadohata | 1989 | American | English | |
| 132 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 | Canadian | English | |
| 331 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17161 | In Country | Bobbie Ann Mason | 1985 | American | English | |
| 738 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 1989 | American | English | |
| 623 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 1985 | American | English | |
| 166 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 64 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | Indian | English | |
| 7579 | The Mosquito Coast | Paul Theroux | 1981 | American | English | |
| 114 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 1980 | Italian | Italian | |
| 511 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind | 1985 | German | German | |
| 686 | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 | American | English | |
| 2058 | Sixty Stories | Donald Barthelme | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17161 | The Sport Of Nature | Nadine Gordimer | 1987 | South African | English | |
| 1912 | World's End | T. C. Boyle | 1987 | American | English |