THE BEST NOVELS OF 1980s

1.       The Name of the Rose (1982) Umberto Eco

2.       Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gabriel García Márquez

3.       Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison

4.       Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy

5.       Kelidar (1984) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

6.       Cities of Salt (1984-1989) Abdul Rahman Munif

7.       Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) Milorad Pavić

8.       Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie

9.       Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Julian Barnes

10.   The House of the Spirits (1982) Isabel Allende

11.   Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) J. M. Coetzee

12.   The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) Milan Kundera

13.   Lanark (1981) Alasdair Gray

14.   Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (1970-1983) Uwe Johnson

15.   The War of the End of the World (1981) Mario Vargas Llosa

16.   Perfume (1985) Patrick Süskind

17.   The Old Gringo (1985) Carlos Fuentes

18.   The Aesthetics of Resistance (1981) Peter Weiss

19.   Satantango (1985) László Krasznahorkai

20.   White Noise (1985) Don DeLillo

21.   Stone Upon Stone (1984) Wiesław Myśliwski

22.   The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) José Saramago

23.   Life and Fate  (written in 1959, published in 1988) Vasili Grossman 

24.   A Book of Memories (1986) Péter Nádas

25.   The White Castle (1985) Orhan Pamuk

26.   Money (1984) Martin Amis

27.   The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker

28.   Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982) Thomas Bernhard

29.   Norwegian Wood (1987) Haruki Murakami

30.   Requiem (1985) Peer Hultberg