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1980s Books Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years. Alice Walker won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for the novel, originally published in 1982, which also inspired the 1985 blockbuster movie starring Oprah Winfrey.
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective, penetrating the cunning labyrinth of the abbey and deciphering coded manuscripts for clues. This much-loved novel was published in 1983.
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The Polar Express
by Chris Van Allsburg
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. The charming story, published in 1985, also became a movie.
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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear submarine as his escape vehicle. While written in 1985, it is still one of the best submarine books around.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Traces the lives of the Truebas, beginning with clairvoyant Clara del Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following their participation in the history of their times which is their destiny. Released in 1985, this was the author's first novel.
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Case, a burned-out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system. This short description understates the influential Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel (that's all the awards a science fiction book can win). The 1984 classic created the term "cyberspace" and imagined what would become the internet.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years. Originally published in 1988.
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed. This one, released in 1986, became a graphic novel classic, inspiring the genre for years to come.
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