A Century of Books IX
By the Decade: 1980-1989

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

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1980:
The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule  364.1523092 RUL

Children of a Lesser God: A Play in Two Acts, Mark Howard Medoff  812.54 MED

Kane & Abel, Jeffrey Archer

The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel

The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy

Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories, W. P. Kinsella

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera

Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

Loving, Danielle Steel

Shadowland, Peter Straub

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Murder in the White House, Margaret Truman

1981:
A Soldier’s Play: A Play, Charles Fuller  812.54 FUL

Crimes of the Heart: A Play, Beth Henley  812.54 HEN

Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Peter Shaffer  822.914 SHA

License Renewed, John E. Gardner

The Cardinal Sins, Andrew M. Greeley

Tar Baby, Toni Morrison

Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith

Rabbit is Rich, John Updike

1982:
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

Prizzi’s Honor, Richard Condon

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams: Short Fiction, Ellen Gilchrist

“A” is for Alibi, Sue Grafton

The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor

The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer

The Endearment, LaVyrle Spencer

The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

1983:
The Kingfisher: Poems, Amy Clampitt  811.54 CLA

American Primitive: Poems, Mary Oliver  811.54 OLI

Night, Mother: A Play, Marsha Norman  812.54 NOR

The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard  822.914 STO

The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932,
William Raymond Manchester  B CHURCHILL

Voice of the Heart, Barbara Taylor Bradford

Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee

The Anodyne Necklace, Martha Grimes

The Bone People, Keri Hulme

Ironweed, William Kennedy

Shakespeare’s Dog, Leon Rooke

1984:
Yin: New Poems, Carolyn Kizer  811.54 KIZ

Empire of the Sun, J. G. Ballard

Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy

Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich

Neuromancer, William Gibson

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney

Deadlock: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, Sara Paretsky

1985:
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes

Echoes, Maeve Binchy

Too Much, Too Soon, Jacqueline Briskin

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, Dominick Dunne

The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes

Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor

When the Bough Breaks, Jonathan Kellerman

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

Song of Kali, Dan Simmons

The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler

1986:
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane  968.00496 MAT

The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis

Table Money, Jimmy Breslin

The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy

Flight of the Intruder, Stephen Coonts

Necroscope, Brian Lumley

The Good Mother, Sue Miller

This Present Darkness, Frank E. Peretti

A Summons to Memphis, Peter Hillsman Taylor

1987:
Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry  812.54 UHR

The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Cleveland Amory  818.54 AMO

The Tidewater Tales, John Barth

World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle

Outbreak, Robin Cook

Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg

Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons

Beloved, Toni Morrison

The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

1988:
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey

The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver

Black Box, Amos Oz

The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler

The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White

1989:
The Heidi Chronicles: A Play, Wendy Wasserstein  812.54 WAS

God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War,
Bil Gilbert  977.00497 GIL

Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy

Garden of Lies, Eileen Goudge

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Russia House, John Le Carré

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

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