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1950-1959   1960-1969   1970-1979   1980-1989  1990-1999   2000-2009

1980 - 1989
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1980

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  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
    Lauren Bacall by Myself by Lauren Bacall
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
    And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 by Malcolm Cowley
  • BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  • BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
    Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
    A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
    A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
  • CURRENT INTEREST (HARDCOVER)
    Julia Child and More Company by Julia Child
  • CURRENT INTEREST (PAPERBACK)
    The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
  • FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  • FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    The World According to Garp by John Irving
  • FIRST NOVEL
    Birdy by William Wharton
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
    The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
    The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
  • GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
    The Complete Directory by Elder Witt, ed.
  • GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
    The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present by Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh
  • HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
    The White House by Henry A. Kissinger
  • HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
  • MYSTERY (HARDCOVER)
    The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald
  • POETRY
    Ashes by Philip Levine
  • RELIGION/INSPIRATION (HARDCOVER)
    The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  • RELIGION/INSPIRATION (PAPERBACK)
    A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
  • SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
  • SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
    The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
  • SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Jem by Frederik Pohl
  • SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
  • TRANSLATION
    Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor by William Arrowsmith
    Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters by Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link
  • WESTERN
    Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour
1981

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  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
    Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
    Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair
  • CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    The Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars
  • CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary
  • CHILDREN'S BOOK, NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies by Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence
  • FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Plains Song by Wright Morris
  • FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  • FIRST NOVEL
    Sister Wolf by Ann Arensberg
  • GENERAL FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
    The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer
  • HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
    Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality by John Boswell
  • HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
    Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwak
  • POETRY
    The Need to Hold Still by Lisel Mueller
  • SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
    The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  • SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
    The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas
  • TRANSLATION
    The Letters of Gustave Flaubert by Francis Steegmuller
    Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold by John E. Woods
1982

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  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
    Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
    Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
    A Penguin Year by Susan Bonners
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
    Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
    Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
  • FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
  • FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
  • FIRST NOVEL
    Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
    The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
    Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
  • HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
    People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 by Father Peter John Powell
  • HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
    The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl
  • POETRY
    Life Supports: New and Collected Poems by William Bronk
  • SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
    Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey
  • SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
    Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Alan Wolf
  • TRANSLATION
    Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves by Robert Lyons Danly
    The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry by Ian Hideo Levy
1983

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  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
    Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time by James R. Mellow
  • CHILDREN'S FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
  • CHILDREN'S FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    A Place Apart by Paula Fox
    Marked by Fire by Joyce Carol Thomas
  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
    Chimney Sweeps by James Cross Giblin
  • CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
    Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
    Doctor De Soto by William Steig
  • CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
    A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman; Betty Fraser, ill
  • FICTION (HARDCOVER)
    The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • FICTION (PAPERBACK)
    Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  • FIRST NOVEL
    The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
    China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield
  • GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
    National Defense by James Fallows
  • HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
    Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley
  • HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
    Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel
  • ORIGINAL PAPERBACK
    The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein
  • POETRY
    Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
    Country Music: Selected Early Poems by Charles Wright
  • SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
    "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
  • SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
    The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
  • TRANSLATION
    Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs Du Mal by
    Richard Howard
1984

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  • FICTION
    Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
  • FIRST WORK OF FICTION
    Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
  • NONFICTION
    Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini
1985

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  • FICTION
    White Noise by Don DeLillo
  • FIRST WORK OF FICTION
    Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis
  • NONFICTION
    Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
1986

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  • FICTION
    World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow
  • NONFICTION
    Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1987

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  • FICTION
    Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
  • NONFICTION
    The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1988

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  • FICTION
    Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
  • NONFICTION
    A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
1989

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  • FICTION
    Spartina by John Casey
  • NONFICTION
    From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

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