| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 2 | Douglas Adams | Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Pref… | 250 | Paperback | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy'] | October 12, 1980 | 4.21 | 283375 |
1 | The Name of the Rose | 0 | 0 | Umberto Eco | The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theolog… | 536 | Paperback | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Italian Literature'] | January 1, 1980 | 4.14 | 360732 |
2 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | Earth's Children | 1 | Jean M. Auel | This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they sh… | 512 | Paperback | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Prehistoric'] | January 1, 1980 | 04.09 | 264630 |
3 | Firestarter | 0 | 0 | Stephen King | The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now t… | 564 | Mass Market Paperback | ['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense'] | September 29, 1980 | 3.91 | 226270 |
4 | Cosmos | 0 | 0 | Carl Sagan | The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilisation grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both… | 384 | Mass Market Paperback | ['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'History', 'Space', 'Philosophy'] | January 1, 1980 | 4.39 | 144686 |
5 | The Bourne Identity | Jason Bourne | 1 | Robert Ludlum | Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...
Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he
is
Jason Bourne.… | 566 | Paperback | ['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Adventure', 'Action'] | February 4, 1980 | 04.05 | 431083 |
6 | A Confederacy of Dunces | 0 | 0 | John Kennedy Toole | Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizu… | 394 | Paperback | ['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Comedy', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'American'] | May 1, 1980 | 3.89 | 272471 |
7 | Congo | 0 | 0 | Michael Crichton | Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the a… | 480 | Mass Market Paperback | ['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Suspense'] | January 1, 1980 | 3.62 | 170347 |
8 | One Corpse Too Many | Chronicles of Brother Cadfael | 2 | Ellis Peters | In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the emp… | 214 | Mass Market Paperback | ['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Medieval'] | June 1, 1979 | 04.08 | 16138 |
9 | The Indian in the Cupboard | The Indian in the Cupboard | 1 | Lynne Reid Banks | At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri's life for ever.
For Little Bear, the Iroquois Indian brave, comes to life... | 192 | Paperback | ['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Juvenile'] | January 1, 1980 | 3.93 | 105145 |