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page 1Novels set in the 1980s
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell
It (novel)
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. This is his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity called It, which exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. It is a monstrous, shapeshifting predator that primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children.
The Stand
1978 novel by Stephen King
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
The Silence of the Lambs
1988 novel by Thomas Harris
Another
novel by Yukito Ayatsuji
Call Me By Your Name
2007 novel by André Aciman
Shantaram
2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1997 novel by Stephen King
No Country for Old Men
2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2003 novel by Stephen King
Let the Right One In
2004 Swedish novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
novel by Philip K. Dick
The Bonfire of the Vanities
novel by Tom Wolfe
Shuggie Bain
2020 novel by Douglas Stuart
Raise the Titanic!
1976 novel by Clive Cussler
Bert Diaries
Swedish children's-youth diary novel series by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson
The Rules of Attraction
1987 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
1982 book by Sue Townsend
Edge of Eternity
2014 novel by Ken Follett
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2022 novel by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Promise
2021 novel by Damon Galgut
Old Masters
novel by Thomas Bernhard
The Carrie Diaries
book by Candace Bushnell
Replay
1986 novel by Ken Grimwood
The Eyre Affair
2001 novel by Jasper Fforde
The Assault
1982 novel by Harry Mulisch
The Passenger
2022 novel by Cormac McCarthy
Kairos
2021 novel by Jenny Erpenbeck
Ghost Blows Out the Light
2006 novel by Zhang Muye
Relic
1995 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Operation Shylock
1993 novel by Philip Roth
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
1985 Book by Sue Townsend
Voyage
1996 novel by Stephen Baxter
Carrion Comfort
1989 novel by Dan Simmons
Three Daughters of Eve
novel by Elif Safak
The Death of Vivek Oji
novel by Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi
Small Things Like These
2021 historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan
If There Be Thorns
novel by V. C. Andrews