Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Make new friends, but keep the old
One is silver and the other gold.
Favorites from the 80’s are on my shelves and I hope on yours or that you have fond memories of them. I only mention a few from the wiki list so I hope you will mention your favorites in the comments below.
1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall
Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca
P. D. James - Innocent Blood
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
James A. Michener - The Covenant
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
New drama
Willy Russell - Educating Rita
1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe's Gold
1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
Jean M. Auel - The Valley of Horses
Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard
John Jakes - North and South
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
1983
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Ken Follett - On Wings of Eagles
Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale
William Kennedy -Ironweed
Stephen King - Christine
John le Carré - The Little Drummer Girl
Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
David Brin - The Practice Effect
Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gore Vidal - Lincoln
1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale
Jean M. Auel – The Mammoth Hunters
Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game
Gabriel García Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian
Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
Carl Sagan – Contact
Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist
Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides
Carl Hiaasen – Tourist Season
Brian Jacques – Redwall
Diana Wynne Jones – Howl's Moving Castle
Stephen King – It
Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Supremacy
Ellis Peters – The Rose Rent
Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
James Tiptree, Jr. – Tales of the Quintana Roo
1987
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Robert Crais – The Monkey's Raincoat
Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster
Betty Mahmoody – Not Without My Daughter
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of A Lion
Rosamunde Pilcher – The Shell Seekers
Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites and Mort
Edward Rutherfurd – Sarum
Scott Turow – Presumed Innocent
Gene Wolfe – The Urth of the New Sun
Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
R. A. Salvatore – The Crystal Shard – first book of the The Icewind Dale Trilogy
Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Lindsey Davis – The Silver Pigs
Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! and Pyramids
Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
I have read 48 of these.
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! Voice is what sells.
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Thursday Classical Music OPUS 88: Saint-Saens "Organ" Symphony #3
by Dumbo
http://www.dailykos.com/...
SNLC, Vol. CCCXXI / UDKCJ 18: 'In honour of the city of London' - Music Diary
by chingchongchinaman
http://www.dailykos.com/...
NOTE: plf515 has book talk on Wednesday mornings early