Literature of the 1980s

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Works of literature from the 1980s.

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A

• An Acceptable Time
• Anpanman series started in 1988.
• Aces High (Wild Cards)
• Adrian Mole
• The Adventures of Samurai Cat
• The Adventures Of Teebo
• After Man: A Zoology of the Future
• "The Age of Desire"
• Ai no Kusabi
• The Alchemist
• Alex Benedict series started in 1989.
• Algebra the Easy Way
• Alfie Atkins
• Alliance/Union series. Main series started in 1980.
• All the Troubles of the World: published in 1989 as a 32 page children's book with illustrations by David Shannon.
• Always Coming Home
• Amy's Eyes
• Ancient Images
• And the Ass Saw the Angel
• And the Band Played On
• Angel Child, Dragon Child
• Angie's First Case
• Annie on My Mind
• Anonymous Rex
• Another Time, Another Place
• Antares
• The Anubis Gates
• Apprentice Adept
• Aquarium
• The Arbor House Treasury
  • The Arbor House Treasury of Nobel Prize Winners
• Archer's Goon
• Ariel (Block)
• Arly Hanks
• Armor (1984)
• The Ashes Series

• Aztec

B

• The Baby-Sitters Club series (also see The Baby-Sitters Club)
• Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
• Back to the Future
• Battlefield Earth
• The Beast House
• Beatles
• Beetle in the Anthill
• Behind the Attic Wall
• The Belgariad
• The Belonging Kind
• Beloved (also see Beloved)
• Bernard Samson Series
• Die Bertinis
• The BFG
• The Big Nowhere
• The Big U
• Bimbos of the Death Sun
• Blackbird (1986)
• Blackcollar
• The Black Company
• The Black Dahlia
• Blackford Oakes series
• Blå Tornet
• Blood and Sand
• Blood Meridian
• Blood Music
• The Blue Sword
• The Bone People
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Bonnie Dundee
• The Book of Lies
• Book of Swords
• The Book of the Named
• Book of the New Sun
• Bordertown
• The Brain Eaters
• Break of Dark
• Breathing Lessons
• Brian's Saga
• Bridge of Birds
• The Broom of the System
• Brother In The Land
• Buru Quartet
• The Butter Battle Book

C

• Caillou series started in 1989.
• Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
• Cam Jansen
• Carnosaur
• Carrion Comfort
• Casebook of the Black Widowers
• The Casteel Series
• The Castle in the Attic
• Castle Perilous
• Cat's Eye (1988)
• The Cats of Seroster
• Catwings
• Celydonn series started in 1989.
• Chain Letter
• The Changeover
• Chanur Novels
• Chapterhouse: Dune
• Charly
• Chia Black Dragon
• The Choir
• Christine
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• The Chronicles of Amber. The second series (with Merlin) started in 1985.
• Chronicles of the Kencyrath
• Chung Kuo
• The Cider House Rules
• The City Without Memory
• Clear and Present Danger
• Close Enough To Touch
• The Cobra Trilogy
• Codex Seraphinianus
• Coin Locker Babies
• The Cold Moons
• The Color Purple (also see The Color Purple)
• The Colour of Magic
• TheColSec Trilogy
• Comes the Blind Fury
• The Complete Robot
• Computer Crimes and Capers
• Concept of Islam: Guidebook for non-Muslims that teaches core beliefs of the faith, as well as the state of the pre-Islamic world and how Islam transformed it. Published in 1983.
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Contact
• Cosmos
• Count Zero
• Courtship Rite
• Crabbe
• The Crucible of Time
• A Cry in the Night
• Crystal Singer series (first novel published 1982)
• Cujo
• Cult Movies: A three-volume series by Danny Peary about cult movies, published in 1981, 1983 and 1988.
• The Culture series started in 1987.
• The Curse of the Blue Figurine
• The Cycle of Fire
• Cycle of the Werewolf
• Cyteen

D

• Dance Dance Dance
• Daphne's Book
• The Dark
• The Darkangel Trilogy
• The Dark Half
• The Darksword Trilogy
• The Dark Tower series started in 1982.
• Dark Warrior
• Darwath series started in 1982.
• Daystar and Shadow
• A Deadly Game of Magic
• Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Death Lands series began in 1986.
• The Deed of Paksenarrion
• Deep Six (1984)
• Dekada '70 (completed in 1983, published in 1988, despite being about The '70s)
• Demon City Shinjuku
• Demon Four
• The Demon Headmaster
• Deverry series began in 1986.
• The Devil's Arithmetic
• The Diadem Saga (original series concluded in 1986; two standalone novels were also published this decade)
• Diamond Brothers
• Different Seasons
• Digital Devil Story
• Dilvish, the Damned
• Dinner at Deviant's Palace
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Dirty Pair
• Dollanganger Series. The last book was published in 1987.
• Don't Care High
• The Doomed City
• A Door into Ocean
• Drachenfels
• Dragaera. The series started in 1983.
• Dragon Fall
• Dragonlance series began in 1984.
• The Dragon Never Sleeps
• Dragon of the Lost Sea
• Dragon Prince
• Dragon's Egg
• Dragon Steel
• The Dragon Waiting
• The Draka
• Drake Maijstral. The series started in 1987.
• The Drawing of the Three
• "Dread"
• Dread Empire
• Drenai saga. The series started in 1984.
• The Duel of Sorcery Trilogy
• The Dumbfounded King
• Dune Encyclopedia
• The Duplicate

E

• Earth's Children. The series started in 1980. (The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters)
• Eclipse Trilogy
• The Eight
• "The Egyptian Cinderella"
• The Elementals
• The Elenium
• Elliott & Win
• Emergence
• Empire Of The Sun
• Empyrion
• Ender's Game
• Equal Rites
• Escape from the Island of Aquarius
• E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet
• Eva
• Eva Luna
• Exit to Eden
• Expecting Someone Taller
• The Exploits of Ebenezum
• Eye of the Wolf
• The Eyes of The Dragon

F

• A Fable of Tonight
• Face At The Edge Of The World
• Fade
• Fair Game (1986), the inspiration for Cobra
• The Fairy Rebel
• The Falcon's Malteser
• Fantastic Creatures
• The Fantastic Flying Journey
• Favorite Son (1987), also adapted into a mini-series
• Fear Street
• Felidae
• Fevre Dream
• Fiasco
• The Fifth Child
• The Final Reflection
• The Finding
• The Fionavar Tapestry
• Fire and Hemlock
• Firebird Trilogy
• The Firebringer Trilogy
• Firestarter
• Flight of the Intruder
• Footfall
• "The Forbidden"
• The Forest of Time

• For Special Services
• Foucault's Pendulum
• "Foundation’s Conscience"
• "The Fourth Law of Robotics"
• The Fourth Protocol
• Franchise: published in 1985 as a 33 page children's book with illustrations by David Shannon.
• Franklin
• Friday
• Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe
• Frontier Wolf
• Frostflower and Thorn
• Funeral Games
• The Fungus
• The Further Adventures of Batman - Four anthologies released between 1989 and 1993.
• Futuretrack Five

G

• Galactic Milieu
• Galápagos
• Garden of Shadows
• Garrett, P.I.
  • Sweet Silver Blues
  • Bitter Gold Hearts
  • Cold Copper Tears
  • Old Tin Sorrows
  • Dread Brass Shadows
  • Red Iron Nights
• The Gate to Women's Country
• Gatling
• Geek Love
• The General's President
• George's Marvellous Medicine
• Gerfaut War
• Ghost Squad - Six books released between 1984 and 1988.
• Ghoul
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
• The Girl Next Door
• The Girl with the Silver Eyes
• Glory Lane
• God-Emperor of Dune
• Gooberz
• Good Dog, Carl!
• Goodnight Mister Tom
• Gorgo the Ogre
• Gorky Park
• GrailQuest
• Great Alta Saga
• The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper
• Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
• Great Tales of Science Fiction
• The Green Futures of Tycho
• Groosham Grange
• The Guardians (Victor Milan)
• Guardians of the Flame
• Guards! Guards!
• The Gunslinger
• Gypsies

H

• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
• Hamish Macbeth
• Ham On Rye
• A Hand Full of Stars
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Hank the Cowdog
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
• Hardwired
• Hating Alison Ashley
• Haunted
• The Haunting
• Heather Has Two Mommies
• The Hellbound Heart
• Helliconia
• Hellspark
• The Helmsman Saga
• Heralds of Valdemar series began in 1987.
• Heretics of Dune
• The Hero and the Crown
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan
• Hilary Tamar
• The History of Middle-earth. Series started in 1983.
• Hobgoblin
• Hobson's Island
• The Homeward Bounders
• Horrible Harry series started in 1988.
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• The Hounds of the Morrigan
• The House of the Spirits
• The House on Mango Street
• Howl's Moving Castle
• How Much for Just the Planet?
• The Hungry Moon
• Hunter's Moon (1989)
• The Hunt for Red October
• Hurray for the Dorchester!
• Hyperion Cantos

I

• Icebreaker
• The Ice Dragon
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy
• The Identity Matrix
• The Idylls of the Queen
• If There Be Thorns
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• Illegal Aliens
• The Illusion of Life
• Imaro
• Incarnations of Immortality
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• Indigo series started in 1989.
• The Integral Trees
• The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters
• Interstellar Pig
• Invasion: Earth
• Ironweed
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 3 (1941)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 4 (1942)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 5 (1943)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 6 (1944)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 7 (1945)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8 (1946)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 9 (1947)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 10 (1948)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 11 (1949)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 12 (1950)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 13 (1951)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 14 (1952)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 15 (1953)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 16 (1954)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 17 (1955)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 18 (1956)
• Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 19 (1957)
• Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction
• Ishmael
• Islands in the Net
• It
• It's Not Easy Being a Bunny (1983)
• It's Such a Beautiful Day: published in 1985 as a children's book with illustrations by Etienne Delessert.
• I Want To Go Home!

JK

• Jacob Have I Loved
• James Bond
• Jason Cosmo
• Jelly Belly
• Job: A Comedy of Justice
• The Journeyer
• The Joy Luck Club
• Jumanji (also see Jumanji)
• Just as Long as We're Together
• Kaiketsu Zorori
• Karel En De Kindermoordenaar
• Keepers Chronicles
• King's Quest (1984)
• Kinsey Millhone
• The Kitchen God's Wife
• The Knight in Rusty Armor
• Knight Life Series

L

• The Lando Calrissian Adventures
• The Land Of Laughs
• "The Last Illusion"
• The Last Ship (also see The Last Ship)
• The Legend of Drizzt
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes
• The Legend of Rah and the Muggles
• The Legend of the Ice People
• The Legends of Ethshar
• Less Than Zero
• Letters Back to Ancient China
• Liaden Universe series began in 1988.
• Liavek
• Libra
• Licence Renewed
• Life, the Universe and Everything
• Light a Penny Candle
• The Light Fantastic
• A Light in the Attic
• Lightning
• Light Thickens
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lilith's Brood
• Limbo System
• Lincoln's Dreams
• Linnea in Monet's Garden
• Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament
• Little Princess
• Little Sophie and Lanky Flop
• Lonesome Dove
• Lone Wolf
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• The Lords of Discipline
• Losing Christina
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Love You Forever
• Lucy and the Big Bad Wolf
• The Lunatic
• Lyonesse
• Lyra
• Lythande

M

• "The Madonna"
• Magic by the Numbers. The series started in 1980.
• The Magic Cottage
• Magic Kingdom of Landover series started in 1986.
• The Magic School Bus series started in 1985. (also see The Magic School Bus and The Magic School Bus)
• Magic Shop
• Magus Rex
• Maia
• Majipoor Series
• The Malaussène Saga. The series started in 1985.
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn
• Many Waters
• March Violets
• Marcus Didius Falco. Series started in 1989.
• Marîd Audran
• Marooned in Realtime
• Masters of Horror and the Supernatural: The Great Tales
• Matador Series
• Matilda
• Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
• Maynard's House
• Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle
• The Meaning of Liff
• The Medusa Frequency
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
• Mermaid's Song
• The Mermaid Summer
• Les Messagers du Temps
• The Messenger Series
• Micro Adventure
• The Midnight Meat Train
• Midnight’s Children
• Millennium (1983)
• The Minds of Billy Milligan
• The Misenchanted Sword
• Misery
• Missing Since Monday
• Mission Earth
• The Mist
• The Mists of Avalon
• Mithgar (began publication in 1984)
  • The Iron Tower
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
• The Mockery Bird
• Molt Brother
• Mona Lisa Overdrive
• The Monster Garden
• Moon (1985)
• Moonheart
• Moon Rainbow (part two published in 1983)
• Mort
• Mr. Majeika (1984)
• The Muddle-Headed Wombat. The last book of the series was published in 1982.
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
• The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
• The Mysterious Chronicles Of Oz
• My Sweet Audrina
• My Teacher Is an Alien
• "My Teacher Sleeps in School"

NO

• The Name of the Rose
• Nathaniel
• National Lampoon's Doon
• Necroscope
• Neuromancer
• The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution
• The New York Trilogy
• Nightflyers
• The Night Mayor
• The Night of Wishes
• Nights at the Circus
• Nobody Lives for Ever
• No Deals, Mr. Bond
• Nomes Trilogy
• Noninterference
• The Norby Chronicles
  • Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot
• North and South (U.S.)
• Norwegian Wood
• Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
• Not Quite Human
• The Number of the Beast
• Number the Stars
• The Obernewtyn Chronicles
• Of Love and Shadows
• On My Honor
• On Stranger Tides (also see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• The Ordinary Princess
• "The Originist"
• The Orphan Train Adventures, the original 4 books
• Our Lady Of The Sauropods
• Our Man Weston
• The Outlaws of Sherwood
• Over Our Way

PQ

• Pacific Vortex!
• The Painted Canoe
• A Pack of Lies
• The Paladin
• The Paper Bag Princess
• The Passion
• Patriot Games
• The Peace War
• The Pelican & After
• Pen Pals
• A Perfect Spy
• Perfume
• Petals on the Wind
• Pet Sematary
• Pettson and Findus
• Phantoms
• Philosophy and Science Fiction
• Photo Finish
• Phryne Fisher. Series started in 1989.
• The Pillars of the Earth
• Pin
• Pinball, 1973
• Pit Dragon Chronicles
• The Planiverse
• The Player
• Playing Beatie Bow
• Po-on
• The Postman
• The Power of One
• The Practice Effect
• A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Prince Cinders
• The Princes of the Air
• Psychic Wars
• Pyramids
• The Pyrates
• Quozl

R

• Rabbit Is Rich
• Ralph S. Mouse
• The Rami Johnson Trilogy
• Ranks of Bronze
• Rawhead Rex
• The Real Frank Zappa Book
• Record of Lodoss War
• Red Army
• Red Dragon
• Red Dwarf
• The Red Night Trilogy
• Red Phoenix
• Red Storm Rising
• The Red Tape War
• Redwall
• The Remains of the Day
• Remember Me
• Repairman Jack
• Replay
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Revolting Rhymes
• Riddley Walker
• The Riftwar Cycle began in 1982.
• Rihannsu (My Enemy, My Ally and The Romulan Way)
• River of Dancing Gods
• Roadwork
• Rocheworld (First book written in 1981, and four sequels followed throughout the '90s).
• Robot Dreams
• Robots and Empire
• The Robots of Dawn
• Role of Honour
• Ronja the Robber's Daughter
• Room 13
• Rose of the Prophet
• Rotten Ralph (the third, fourth and fifth books were published in 1984, 1986 and 1989)
• The Rules of Attraction
• The Runaways
• Run Wild

S

• The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass
• The Saddle Club (also see The Saddle Club)
• Saga of the Exiles
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset
• Sally Lockhart series
• The Sand Horse
• Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future
• The Satanic Verses
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• Schismatrix
• Science-Fiction 101
• Scorpion (1980)
• Scorpius
• The Scream (Skipp And Spector)
• The Secret Country. Series started in 1985.
• Secrets Not Meant to be Kept
• Seeds of Yesterday
• A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
• Sentou Yousei Yukikaze
• Separation Two
• Sepulchre
• The Seven Citadels
• Sexing the Cherry
• Shadow Keep
• Sharpe
• The Shattered World
• The Shining Falcon
• Short and Shivery
• The Sicilian
• The Silence of the Lambs (also see The Silence of the Lambs)
• Singularity
• Slayers
• Slimer
• Slow Learner
• Small World (David Lodge novel)
• Small World (Tabitha King novel)
• Snot Stew
• The Snow Queen Series
• Soldier of the Mist
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
• Son of Interflux
• Song of the Lioness
• The Songs of Distant Earth
• Sonja Blue series started in 1989.
• Sorcery and Cecelia
• Soul Rider series
• Soup's Drum
• Sourcery
• The Space Odyssey Series. The first original novel (as opposed to the novelization of the film) came out in 1982.
• Spartan
• Speaker for the Dead
• Sphere
• Spock's World
• A Spy in the Neighborhood
• Starluck
• Star Trek The Kobayashi Maru
• Stinger
• Stone Fox
• Stones of Power series started in 1987.
• Storming Heaven
• The Stranger Beside Me
• Strata
• Stray
• The Stress of Her Regard
• The Sunne in Splendour
• Sun Wolf and Starhawk
• Super Gran
• Swan Song
• Sweet Valley High series began in 1983. (also see Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley High)
• Swordspoint

T

• T*A*C*K
• Tailchaser's Song
• A Tale of Time City
• The Tales of Alvin Maker
• The Talisman
• Team Yankee
• Tea with the Black Dragon
• Teito Monogatari
• Terrible Things: An Allegory Of The Holocaust
• There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
• They Cage the Animals at Night
• They Thirst
• The Things They Carried
• Thinner
• This Is the Title of This Story
• Those Who Hunt the Night
• The Tillerman Family Series
• Tiger Eyes
• Time Machine Series
• The Time of the Ghost

• The Time Wanderers
• Time Wars series started in 1984.
• Timothy Goes to School: Originally released in 1981
• The Tommyknockers
• Too Funny For Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags
• To Reign in Hell
• Tomoe Gozen Saga
• Tortall Universe series began in 1984.
• To the Ends of the Earth
• To the Stars
• "Trantor Falls"
• Travis McGee
• The True Game
• "True Names"
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
• Tuf Voyaging
• The Twilight Realm
• The Twits
• Two Weeks with the Queen
• Tytania

U

• Uhura's Song
• The Unadulterated Cat
• Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
• The Ungoverned
• The Unwilling Warlord
• The Unwomanly Face Of War
• Uplift
• Urn Burial

V

• VALIS
• The Vampire Chronicles
• Vampire Hunter D
• A Very British Coup
• Videssos series began in 1987.
• Village of the Vampire Cat
• Voices After Midnight
• Vorkosigan Saga
• A Voz dos Deuses

W

• Wait Till Helen Comes
• The Wanderings of Wuntvor
• The War Against the Chtorr
• Warday
• The War Between The Pitiful Teachers And The Splendid Kids
• War for the Oaks
• The War of the End of the World
• The Wasp Factory
• Waterland
• The Way Series
• Weaveworld
• Weekend
• Westmark
• West of Eden
• Whale Music

• When I Was Five I Killed Myself
• When Rabbit Howls
• Where Are They?
• Where's Wally? (also see Wheres Wally)
• While My Pretty One Sleeps
• The Whipping Boy
• Whispers From The Dead
• White Noise
• Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (also see Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

• Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
• The Widow of Desire
• Wild Cards
• A Wild Sheep Chase
• A Wind Named Amnesia
• Window
• The Windrose Chronicles
• Win, Lose or Die
• Winter's Tale
• Wise Child
• The Wish Giver
• The Witches
• The Witches of Eastwick
• With A Single Spell
• A Wizard in Rhyme series started in 1986.
• Wizard of the Pigeons
• Wizards, Warriors and You
• Wiz Biz series started in 1989.
• The Wolves of Memory
• The Woman in Black
• Women Without Men
• Woodbury Pony Club
• The World and Thorinn
• World-Eater
• Worlds Imagined
• Worlds of Power
• The World Treasury of Science Fiction
• The Worms (1985)
• The Wounded Sky
• Wraeththu
• Wyrd Sisters

XYZ

• "The Yattering and Jack"
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
• Yesterday's Doll
• You Bright And Risen Angels
• Young Wizards series began in 1983.
• Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
• Zodiac

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