The Bonfire of the Vanities
1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe
1980s
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
1982 novel by Anne Tyler, set in Baltimore, Maryland
A Confederacy of Dunces
Picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients
Midnight’s Children
1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie
1984
Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
Lonesome Dove
1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry
Arctic Dreams
1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Seventh novel by American writer John Irving