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1980 Books & Bestsellers |
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1980 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Covenant by James A. Michener 2. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum 3. Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon 4. Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz 5. Firestarter by Stephen King 6. The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett 7. Random Winds by Belva Plain 8. The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth 9. The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 10. The Spike by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss |
1980 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression by Douglas R. Casey 2. Cosmos by Carl Sagan 3. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman 4. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient by Norman Cousins 5. Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese 6. The Sky’s the Limit by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 7. The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler 8. Craig Claiborne’s Gourmet Diet by Craig Claiborne with Pierre Franey 9. Nothing Down by Robert Allen 10. Shelley: Also Known as Shirley by Shelley Winters |
1980 New York Times Bestsellers |
| Donahue by Phil Donahue Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman Men in Love by Nancy Friday Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese Shelley: Also Known as Shirley by Shelley Winters Crisis Investing by Douglas R. Casey Cosmos by Carl Sagan |
1980 Notable Literature |
| Fin-de-Siècle Vienna by Carl Schorske The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatteri Is There a Text in This Class? by Stanley Fish |
| 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1980, according to GoodReads |