Best Literature/Books in 1981

1

4.17

Tar Baby 1981

Toni Morrison

2

4.38

A Light in the Attic 1981

Shel Silverstein

3

4.33

Midnight's Children 1981

Salman Rushdie

4

4.17

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 1981

Raymond Carver

5

They Thirst 1981

Robert R. McCammon

6

4.5

Hello America 1981

J.G. Ballard

7

3.75

Rabbit Is Rich 1981

John Updike

8

3.75

Sixty Stories 1981

Donald Barthelme

9

3.75

Cities of the Red Night 1981

William S. Burroughs

10

4

Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981

Gabriel García Márquez

11

4

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 1981

Eugene B. Sledge

12

4

Madwand 1981

Roger Zelazny

13

4

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 1981

Beverly Cleary

14

4

Six Thinking Hats 1981

Edward de Bono

15

4

Night of the Running Man 1981

Lee Wells

16

3.5

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In 1981

Roger Fisher

17

3.5

The Breaks of the Game 1981

David Halberstam

18

3.5

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O 1981

Shel Silverstein

19

3.5

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul 1981

Douglas R. Hofstadter

20

3.5

Red Dragon 1981

Thomas Harris