THE BEST NOVELS OF 1980s

1. The Name of the Rose (1982) Umberto Eco
2. Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison
3. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gabriel García Márquez
4. A Book of Memories (1986) Peter Nadas
5. The War of the End of the World (1981) Mario Vargas Llosa
6. Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy
7. Cities of Salt (1984-1989) Abdul Rahman Munif
8. The Loser (1983) Thomas Bernhard
9. Life and Fate  (written in 1959, published in 1988) Vasili Grossman 
10. Stone Upon Stone (1984) Wiesław Myśliwski
11. Kelidar (1984) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
12. The Aesthetics of Resistance (1981) Peter Weiss
13. Satantango (1985) László Krasznahorkai
14. Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) Milorad Pavić
15. Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie
16. Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Julian Barnes
17. The House of the Spirits (1982) Isabel Allende
18. Perfume (1985) Patrick Süskind
19. Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982) Thomas Bernhard
20. White Noise (1985) Don DeLillo
21. Woodcutters (1987) Thomas Bernhard
22. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) Milan Kundera
23. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) José Saramago
24. The White Castle (1985) Orhan Pamuk
25. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) J. M. Coetzee
26. Money (1984) Martin Amis
27. The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker
28. The Old Gringo (1985) Carlos Fuentes
29. Lanark (1981) Alasdair Gray
30. Norwegian Wood (1987) Haruki Murakami
31. Requiem (1985) Peer Hultberg