Best Selling Non-Fiction of the 1980's Books

Best Selling Non-Fiction of the 1980's

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A list of the best selling novels in the US during the 1980's as reported by Publishers Weekly. This list ranges from 1980 through 1989. All types of novels have been included and each of them made it into the top ten. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The best selling novels on this list were the most popular books in the United States during the 80's, so you can be sure they're well written and enjoyable (depending, of course, on your preferred literary genre). This list is intended to help long-time readers and newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best selling novels of all time.

Note that Publishers Weekly left the "Harry Potter" series off of this list as its inclusion made the entire children's book industry appear to sharply rise and decline depending on the series' release schedule.
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  1. 1
    Stephen Hawking
    Year in the Top 15: 1989
  2. 2

    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

    Year in the Top 15: 1988
  3. 3

    A Day in the Life of America

    Collins1
    Year in the Top 15: 1987
  4. 4

    A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union

    David Elliot Cohen, Rick Smolan, David Cohen
    Year in the Top 15: 1987
  5. 5

    A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney

    Years in the Top 15: 1981, 1982
  6. 6
    Shel Silverstein
    Year in the Top 15: 1981
  7. 7

    A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference

    Year in the Top 15: 1985
  8. 8

    A Season on the Brink

    Year in the Top 15: 1987
  9. 9

    A Woman Named Jackie

    Year in the Top 15: 1989
  10. 10

    All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

    Years in the Top 15: 1988, 1889
  11. 11

    All my best friends

    George Burns
    Year in the Top 15: 1989
  12. 12

    An Uncommon Freedom

    Charles Paul Conn
    Year in the Top 15: 1982
  13. 13
    Norman Cousins
    Year in the Top 15: 1980
  14. 14

    And more by Andy Rooney

    Andy Rooney
    Year in the Top 15: 1982
  15. 15

    Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    Year in the Top 15: 1983
  16. 16

    Be Happy--You Are Loved!

    Year in the Top 15: 1986
  17. 17

    Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book

    Years in the Top 15: 1981, 1982, 1989
  18. 18

    Betty Crocker's International Cookbook

    Year in the Top 15: 1980
  19. 19
    Joe McGinniss
    Year in the Top 15: 1989
  20. 20

    Blue Highways: A Journey into America

    Year in the Top 15: 1983
  21. 21
    Leo Buscaglia
    Year in the Top 15: 1986
  22. 22

    Callanetics: Ten Years Younger in Ten Hours

    Year in the Top 15: 1986
  23. 23

    Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen

    Year in the Top 15: 1984
  24. 24

    Christmas in America

    David Cohen
    Year in the Top 15: 1988
  25. 25
    Carl Sagan
    Years in the Top 15: 1980, 1981

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