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  • Popular and Best-selling Books From The 1980s

    Popular and Best-selling Books From The 1980s

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1980:

    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
    The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
    Cosmos by Carl Sagan
    The Covenant by James A. Michener
    The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
    Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
    The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
    Firestarter by Stephen King
    God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
    Jailbird – Kuty Vonnegut
    The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
    Midnight’s Children by Salmon Rushdie
    Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz
    Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
    Random Winds by Belva Plain
    Smiley’s People by John le Carre
    The Spike by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1981:

    A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
    An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
    The Covenant by James Michner
    Cujo by Stephen King
    The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh
    The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
    Good bye, Janette by Harold Robbins
    Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
    The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
    Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
    The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
    Lanark by Alasdair Gray
    Masquerade by Kit Williams
    Noble House by James Clavell
    Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
    Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
    The Third Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders
    No Time for Tears by Cynthia Freeman
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymind Carver
    When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1982:

    2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
    An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
    The BFD by Roald Dahl
    The Color Purple by Alice Walker
    The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
    The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin
    Different Seasons by Stephen King
    E.T., The Extraterrestrial by William Kotzwinkle
    The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
    The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allenda
    The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
    The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett
    Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
    Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz
    Moo Baa La La La (board book) by Sandra Boynton
    North and South by John Jakes
    The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.
    The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum
    The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer
    Soft as a Kitten by Audean Johnson
    Space by James A. Michener
    Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
    The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1983:

    Cathedral by Raymond Carver
    Changes by Danielle Steel
    Christine by Stephen King
    Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
    The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
    The Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour
    The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
    Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz
    The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
    Peek-a-Boo, I See You by Joan Phillips
    Poland by James A. Michener
    Pet Sematary by Stephen King
    Poland by James Michner
    Return of the Jedi by James Kahn
    Space by James Michner
    Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by Joan D. Vinge
    White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson
    Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1984:

    “…And Ladies of the Club” by Helen Hooven Santmyer
    The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum
    The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
    First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
    First Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter
    The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth
    Full Circle by Danielle Steel
    Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
    The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cosneros
    Iacocca: an Autobiography by Lee Iacocca with William Novak
    In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
    The Kennedys: an American Drama by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
    The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz by Joan Rivers
    Lincoln by Gore Vidal
    Love and War by John Jakes
    Loving Each Other by Leo Buscaglia
    Mayor by Edward I. Koch with William Rauch
    Money by Martin Amis
    Motherhood: the Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombech
    Neuromancer by William Gibson
    The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
    The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
    Thinner by Stephen King
    The Wasp Family by Iain Banks
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundra
    Who Killed the Robins Family? by Thomas Chastain

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1985:

    A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    Baby’s First Words by Lars Wik
    Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving
    The Class by Erich Segal
    Contact by Carl Sagan
    Family Album by Danielle Steel
    Hold The Dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford
    If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
    If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond
    Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour
    Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
    Love in the Time of Cholora by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Lucky by Jackie Collins
    The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
    The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
    Secrets by Danielle Steel
    Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
    The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
    Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
    The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
    Texas by James A. Michener
    The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
    White Noise by Don DeLillo

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1986:

    A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
    Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
    The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
    Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins
    I’ll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz
    It by Stephen King
    Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
    Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour
    Lie Down ith Lions by Ken Folett
    The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
    Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spieglman
    The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
    Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
    Wanderlust by Danielle Steel
    Whirlwind by James Clavell

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1987:

    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
    Beloved – Toni Morrison
    Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
    The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
    The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
    Fine Things by Danielle Steel
    The Haunted Mesa by Louis L’Amour
    Hatchet by Gary Paulson
    Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
    I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! by Dr. Seuss and James Stevenson
    It by Stephen King
    Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel
    Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor
    Misery by Stephen King
    New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
    Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
    Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
    Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
    The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford
    Windmills of the Gods by Sidney Sheldon

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1988:

    Alaska by James A. Michener
    The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) by Paulo Coelho
    Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
    Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
    To Be the Best by Barbara Taylor Bradford
    The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tim Wolfe
    The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
    The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum
    The Magic Locket by Elizabeth Koda-Callan
    Matilda by Roald Dahl
    Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
    One by Richard Bach
    Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
    The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
    The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
    The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
    Till We Meet Again by Judith Krantz
    The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
    Zoya by Danielle Steel

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1989:

    A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
    California Gold by John Jakes
    Caribbean by James A. Michener
    Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
    Daddy by Danielle Steel
    The Dark Half by Stephen King
    Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
    Midnight by Dean Koontz
    The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
    The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
    Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
    The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
    The Russia House by John le Carre
    The Sands of Time by Sidney Shelton
    The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
    The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
    Star by Danielle Steel
    V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
    While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Popular and Best-selling Books From The 1960s

    Popular and Best-selling Books From The 1960s

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1960:

    Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
    Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
    Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
    The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace
    The Constant Image by Marcia Davenport
    For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
    Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
    Hawaii by James A. Michener
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    The Listener by Taylor Caldwell
    Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund
    The Lovely Ambition by Mary Ellen Chase
    One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
    Ourselves to Know by John O’Hara
    Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
    Sermons and Soda-Water by John O’Hara
    The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
    Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
    Take our 1960 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1961:

    The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
    The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    Daughter of Silence by Morris West
    The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
    For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
    Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
    Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman
    The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
    Mila 18 by Leon Uris
    Eloise Wilkin’s Mother Goose by Eloise Wilkin
    Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
    Ten Apples Up On Top! by Theo. LeSieg and Roy McKie
    Thunderball by Ian Fleming
    The Touch Me Book by Pat and Eve Witte
    Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    Winnie Ille Pu by Alexander Lenard (translation of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne)
    The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
    Take our 1961 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1962:

    A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury
    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
    The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
    Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
    Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
    Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
    The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
    Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
    The Prize by Irving Wallace
    The Reivers by William Faulkner
    Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss
    Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel
    Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
    Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
    Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
    Take our 1962 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1963:

    Babies So Tall Board Book by Gyo Fujikawa
    The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden
    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
    Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book by Richard Scarry
    Caravans by James A. Michener
    Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
    City of Night by John Rechy
    Elizabeth Appleton by John O’Hara
    The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
    The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
    The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier
    Grandmother and the Priests by Taylor Caldwell
    The Group by Mary McCarthy
    Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
    I Am a Bunny by Ole Risom and Richard Scarry
    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming
    Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
    The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
    Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel
    The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
    Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
    Take our 1963 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1964:

    A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
    Armageddon by Leon Uris
    Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever by Richard Scarry
    Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
    Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming
    Convention by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
    Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
    The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
    The Group – Mary McCarthy
    Herzog by Saul Bellow
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
    It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
    Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
    The Man by Irving Wallace
    The Martyred by Richard E. Kim
    The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
    This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
    The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
    You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
    Take our 1964 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1965:

    The Ambassador by Morris West
    Ariel by Sylvia Plath
    The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley
    Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
    The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short
    The Green Berets by Robin Moore
    Herzog by Saul Bellow
    Hotel by Arthur Hailey
    Kosmos by Witold Gombrowics
    The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
    The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
    The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
    The Source by James A. Michener
    Those Who Love by Irving Stone
    Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader
    Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
    Take our 1965 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1966:

    The Adventurers by Harold Robbins
    Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
    All in the Family by Edwin O’Connor
    Capable of Honor by Allen Drury
    Capitolism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
    The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
    The Double Image by Helen MacInnes
    The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss
    The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    The Little Red Book, aka Quotations From Chairman Mao by Mao Tse-tung
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
    Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
    Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
    Tai-Pan by James Clavell
    Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns
    The Source – James Michener
    The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
    Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
    Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    Take our 1966 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1967:

    The Arrangement by Elia Kazan
    Christy by Catherine Marshall
    The Chosen by Chaim Potok
    The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
    The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
    The Exhibitionist by Henry Sutton
    The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart
    Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
    The Master and Margarita by Mikhal Bulgakov
    Never Talk to Strangers by Irma Joyce
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
    The Plot by Irving Wallace
    Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
    The Secret of Santa Vittora by Robert Crichton
    Topaz by Leon Uris
    Take our 1967 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1968:

    A Small Town in Germany by John le Carre
    Airport by Arthur Hailey
    Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever by Richard Scarry
    Richard’s Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
    Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past by Erich von Daniken
    Christy by Catherine Marshall
    The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
    Couples by John Updike
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
    The Double Helix by James D. Watson
    The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
    Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
    The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
    The Pigman by Paul Zindel
    Preserve and Protect by Allen Drury
    The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
    Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs by Linda Goodman
    Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell
    The Tower of Babel by Morris L. West
    Vanished by Fletcher Knebel
    Take our 1968 Quiz!

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1969:

    Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
    The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
    Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
    The Edible Woman, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
    My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
    The Godfather by Mario Puzo
    The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    The Inheritors by Harold Robbins
    The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann
    My Book About Me (by Me, Myself) by Dr. Seuss
    Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe
    The Promise by Chaim Potok
    The Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    Pretenders by Gwen Davi
    The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
    The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
    The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace
    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
    Take our 1969 Quiz!