1980 great books

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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,742 members
335 reviews
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,173 members
173 reviews
4.2
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,516 members
508 reviews
3.9
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel
13,846 members
300 reviews
3.9
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
by Carl Sagan
9,585 members
103 reviews
½ 4.4
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Firestarter
by Stephen King
10,959 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
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Congo
by Michael Crichton
8,768 members
100 reviews
½ 3.3
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,068 members
235 reviews
3.9
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Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins
6,192 members
79 reviews
3.9
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The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe
3,083 members
96 reviews
3.8
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes
2,922 members
22 reviews
4
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Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler
3,325 members
95 reviews
4.1
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
by Frank W. Abagnale
3,162 members
98 reviews
3.8
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A Month in the Country
by J. L. Carr
2,976 members
138 reviews
4.2
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15
No One Here Gets Out Alive
by Jerry Hopkins
1,965 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
by Robert Hughes
1,337 members
7 reviews
4.1
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
by Robert K. Massie
3,039 members
42 reviews
½ 4.4
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Waiting for the barbarians
by J. M. Coetzee
4,881 members
83 reviews
4
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Pinball, 1973
by Haruki Murakami
579 members
17 reviews
½ 3.4
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Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
2,825 members
19 reviews
3.9
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The Covenant
by James A. Michener
2,228 members
23 reviews
3.9
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
2,730 members
16 reviews
4.1
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Mockingbird
by Walter Tevis
1,256 members
49 reviews
4
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
2,037 members
80 reviews
3.9
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Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,936 members
39 reviews
4.2
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The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
10,721 members
165 reviews
3.8
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The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
1,698 members
31 reviews
3.8
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28
The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
1,510 members
52 reviews
3.9
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Rituals
by Cees Nooteboom
1,069 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,481 members
28 reviews
4.2
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Dark Forces
by Kirby McCauley
631 members
7 reviews
3.8
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The day lasts more than a hundred years
by Chingiz Aitmatov
643 members
15 reviews
4.1
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Follow the River
by James Alexander Thom
1,146 members
37 reviews
4.2
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The Key to Rebecca
by Ken Follett
3,273 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
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Coin Locker Babies
by Ryû Murakami
1,079 members
15 reviews
3.8
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Shadowland
by Peter Straub
1,839 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Snow Queen
by Joan D. Vinge
2,519 members
57 reviews
3.9
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The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
by Gerald Brittle
493 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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Music for Chameleons
by Truman Capote
2,148 members
26 reviews
3.9
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40
About Looking
by John Berger
1,008 members
7 reviews
4
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Timescape
by Gregory Benford
2,342 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
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42
The Surgeon's Mate
by Patrick O'Brian
3,197 members
48 reviews
4.2
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43
The Number of the Beast
by Robert A. Heinlein
4,192 members
48 reviews
½ 3.4
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
by Julia Kristeva
741 members
4 reviews
3.9
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
by Frederik Pohl
2,297 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
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Cold Moon Over Babylon
by Michael McDowell
397 members
15 reviews
3.9
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
by André Aciman
640 members
9 reviews
4
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The Cellar
by Richard Laymon
705 members
30 reviews
½ 3.4
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Lord Valentine's Castle
by Robert Silverberg
2,625 members
39 reviews
3.8
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I, Me, Mine
by George Harrison
501 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Way of Being
by Carl R. Rogers
470 members
7 reviews
4.1
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
by Ray Bradbury
1,518 members
18 reviews
½ 4.5
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
2,239 members
23 reviews
4
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Gilded Needles
by Michael McDowell
250 members
11 reviews
4
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Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai
789 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
1,125 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
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Side Effects
by Woody Allen
1,745 members
21 reviews
½ 3.7
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Rites of Passage
by William Golding
1,367 members
29 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Salt Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara
554 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Dark
by James Herbert
718 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lectures on Literature
by Vladimir Nabokov
1,527 members
16 reviews
4.2
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The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
by Monique Wittig
363 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by William Manchester
1,150 members
21 reviews
4.1
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