The 80s were loud, complicated, joyful, heartbreaking, and transformative. These books capture the decade from every angle.
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The Impossible Fortress
Jason Rekulak
The Berlin Letters
Katherine Reay
Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
Armistead Maupin
The Tidewater Tales
John Barth
Cujo: A Novel
Stephen King
The Light on Halsey Street: A Novel
Vanessa Miller
American Arcadia
Laura Scalzo
I'll Stop the World
Lauren Thoman
Oranges for Magellan
Richard Martin
Andrea Hoffman Goes All In
Diane Cohen Schneider
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
The Wedding Party
Liu Xinwu
Young Rich Widows
Kimberly Belle
The Sons of El Rey
Alex Espinoza
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xóchitl González
The Great Gimmelmans
Lee Matthew Goldberg
When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)
Jonathan Kellerman
Amateur City (Kate Delafield, #1)
Katherine V. Forrest
Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy
They Thirst
Robert McCammon
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts
The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon
The Lost Language of Cranes
David Leavitt
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
Floating Dragon
Peter Straub
We Are Lost and Found
Helene Dunbar
Slaves of New York
Tama Janowitz
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