Reading in the 1980s
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Robert Fulgham
American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America. Richard Reeves
Beloved. Toni Morrison
Blue Highways: A Journey into America. “William Least Heat Moon”
Bonfire of the Vanities. Tom Wolfe
The Bourne Identity. Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy. Robert Ludlum
A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking
Cider House Rules. John Irving
The Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean M. Auel
Clear and Present Danger. Tom Clancy
The Color Purple. Alice Walker
Contact. Carl Sagan
The Covenant. James Michener
Cujo. Stephen King
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Anne Tyler
Fallen Angels. Walter Dean Myers
The Fate of the Earth. Jonathan Schell
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Fannie Flagg.
Gorky Park. Martin Cruz Smith
Growing Up. Russell Baker
The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood
Hatchet. Gary Paulsen
Heartburn. Nora Ephron
Hollywood Wives. Jackie Collins
The Hotel New Hampshire. John Irving
The House of Spirits. Isabel Allende
In Suspect Terrain. John McPhee
Ironweed. William Kennedy
It. Stephen King
The Joy Luck Club.Amy Tan
Jumanjii. Chris Van Allsburg
Lake Woebegon Days. Garrison Keillor
Like Water for Chocolate. Laura Esquivel
Lincoln: A Photobiography. Russell Freedman
Lost in the Cosmos. Walker Percy
The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Richard Rhodes
Maus. Art Spiegelman
The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux
The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco
Noble House. James Clavell
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present Howard Zinn
Pet Sematary. Stephen King
Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett
Presumed Innocent. Scott Turow
Prince of Tides. Pat Conroy
Princess Daisy. Judith Krantz
Queen of the Damned. Anne Rice
Rage of Angels. Sidney Sheldon
Remains of the Day. Kazuo Ishiguro
Sarah, Plain and Tall. Patricia MacLachlan
The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie
Schindler’s Ark. Thomas Keneally
Secrets. Danielle Steel
The Stranger Beside Me.Ann Rule
Uncivil Liberties. Calvin Trillin
Watchmen. Alan Moore
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Raymond Carver
When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Harold Kushner
The Whipping Boy. Sid Fleischman