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