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Cujo
Cujo () is a 1981 horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a Saint Bernard who contracts rabies, then goes on a killing spree in his hometown. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983. Cujo's name was based on the alias of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearst's kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army. King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goe
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Red Dragon
1981 novel by Thomas Harris
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God Emperor of Dune
1981 novel by Frank Herbert
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Roadwork
novel by Stephen King
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Valis
1981 novel by Philip K. Dick
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The Eyes of Darkness
1981 novel by Dean Koontz
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Jumanji
children's book by Chris Van Allsburg
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The Hotel New Hampshire
novel by John Irving
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The Divine Invasion
1981 novel by Philip K. Dick
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Downbelow Station
1981 novel by C. J. Cherryh
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The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 novel by Gene Wolfe
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Creation
novel by Gore Vidal
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Noble House
1981 novel by James Clavell
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The Wave
novel by Todd Strasser
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Little, Big
1981 novel by John Crowley
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Rabbit Is Rich
novel by John Updike
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The Keep
1981 novel by F. Paul Wilson
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Project Pope
1981 novel by Clifford D. Simak
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Windhaven
Windhaven is a science fiction fix-up novel by American writers George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle. The novel is a collection of three novellas compiled and first published together in 1981 by Timescape Books. It was published as a mass market paperback in 1982 by Pocket Books. Both editions featured cover art by Vincent Di Fate. It was later reprinted by Bantam Spectra in hardcover in 2001, and paperback in 2003 and 2012, with cover art by Stephen Youll. The novel was also published in paperback form in the UK by New English Library in 1982 and Gollancz in 1988.
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If There Be Thorns
novel by V. C. Andrews
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Irish Thoroughbred
1981 novel by Nora Roberts
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Zuckerman Unbound
1981 novel by Philip Roth