Books The Critics Loved in the Eighties
This page is for books that were discussed a lot in the 80s.

Books That Were the Critics Choice in the 80s

  • 1980
    • Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Cosmos by Carl Sagan: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1981
    • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving: Available at Amazon.Com
    • July's People by Nadine Gordimer: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Rabbit is Rich by John Updike: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1982
    • Dinner at the Home Sick Restaraunt by Anne Tyler: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Megatrends by John Naisbitt: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1983
    • Ironweed by William Kennedy: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Modern Times by Paul Johnson: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1984
    • Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Lincoln by Gore Vidal: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1985
    • The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1986
    • A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Sportswriter by Richard Ford: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Maus by Art Spiegelman: Available at Amazon.Com
    • The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1987
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Empire by Gore Vidal: Available at Amazon.Com
    • A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1988
    • Paris Trout by Pete Dexter: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Love in the Times of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Brething Lessons by Anne Tyler: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch: Available at Amazon.Com
  • 1989
    • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow: Available at Amazon.Com
    • Citizens: A Chronocile of the Revolution by Simon Schama: Available at Amazon.Com