Adventure Books of the 1980s
The 42 most-read adventure books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man) (1985), Different Seasons (1982) and Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984).
This list collects 42 books from the 1980s by 35 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man)
Stephen King
Different Seasons
Stephen King
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
The Running Man
Stephen King
Sphere
Michael Crichton
Replay
Ken Grimwood
Streams of Silver
R. A. Salvatore
Fallen Hearts
V.C. Andrews
Deathlands
James Axler
The Elfstones of Shannara
Terry Brooks
Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank / Excerpts from Anne Frank)
Frances Goodrich, Anne Frank
Fat Tuesday
Sandra Brown
Silken Savage
Catherine Hart
THE MANY-COLORED LAND
Julian May
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Pern #8.5)
Anne McCaffrey
The Forbidden Castle
Edward Packard
Grendel
Matt Wagner, Pat McEown
The Boat of a Million Years
Poul Anderson
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Jon Scieszka
House of Danger
R. A. Montgomery
The Golden Torc
Julian May
Song of Sorcery
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Pyrates
George MacDonald Fraser, George Fraser
The Morcai Battalion
Diana Palmer
Out of Many Waters (American History Series for Young People)
Jacqueline Dembar Greene
King Gilgamesh
Robert Silverberg
The Haunted House
R. A. Montgomery
Doctor Who - Inferno
Terrance Dicks
The Green Slime
Susan Saunders, Edward Packard
Keeper of the Keys (Cycle of Fire, No 2)
Janny Wurts
Choose Your Own Adventure - The Secret of the Ninja
Jay Leibold
The Circus
Edward Packard
Works (Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans / Adventure of Wisteria Lodge / Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Intervention
Julian May
The Place of Dead Roads
William S. Burroughs
Sea Star
Pamela Jekel
Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Sten Nadolny
Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ramage and the Saracens
Dudley Pope
Sweet Dreams, Lady Moon
Nicholas Grabowsky
Seize the Wind
John Gordon Davis
Tarzan and Tradition
Erling B. Holtsmark