1980s Fun!
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
by:
Gabrielle Moss
3.76 avg rating — 4,095 ratings 2. 
Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s 3.79 avg rating — 548 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
by:
Cary Elwes
4.18 avg rating — 73,031 ratings 
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Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club, #1)
by:
Ann M. Martin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34,917 ratings 
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Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume 3.49 avg rating — 2,044 ratings
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
by:
Grady Hendrix
4.26 avg rating — 11,487 ratings 
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
by:
Bill Watterson
4.65 avg rating — 122,987 ratings 13. 
Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s that Rocked
by:
Matthew Robinson
4.01 avg rating — 161 ratings 
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You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
by:
Susannah Gora
3.86 avg rating — 2,571 ratings 17. 
Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
by:
Kevin Smokler
3.85 avg rating — 357 ratings 18. 
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
by:
Lizzie Skurnick
3.64 avg rating — 1,154 ratings 
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
by:
Hadley Freeman
3.78 avg rating — 2,435 ratings 22. 
Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
by:
David Sirota
3.53 avg rating — 667 ratings 
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Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
by:
Nick de Semlyen
4.06 avg rating — 3,065 ratings 
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Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
by:
Lori Majewski
3.96 avg rating — 1,309 ratings 
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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers
by:
Marisa Crawford
3.90 avg rating — 585 ratings 38. 
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by:
Tommy Lee
4.14 avg rating — 48,138 ratings 
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Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from '80s Movies
by:
Jason Diamond
3.21 avg rating — 911 ratings 42. 
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
by:
Tom Beaujour
4.08 avg rating — 3,026 ratings 
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Free to Be...a Family: A Book About All Kinds of Belonging
by:
Marlo Thomas
4.39 avg rating — 165 ratings 
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The 1980s from Ronald Reagan to MTV (Decades of the 20th Century in Color) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff
by:
Meghan Mccarthy
3.73 avg rating — 346 ratings 52. 
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
by:
Wayne Coffey
4.21 avg rating — 4,758 ratings 53. 
The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more (Video Games Book)
by:
Gary Plowman
3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Rock and Roll Children: An '80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story
by:
Sean Frazier
4.19 avg rating — 90 ratings 
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Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
by:
Tom Lean
4.17 avg rating — 206 ratings 
66. 
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
by:
Caseen Gaines
3.99 avg rating — 1,890 ratings 
73. 
World of My Little Pony®: An Unauthorized Guide for Collectors
by:
Debra L. Birge
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 
78. 
The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s
by:
Paul Slansky
4.15 avg rating — 210 ratings 
81. 
A Decade of Barbie Dolls and Collectibles 1981-1991: Identification & Values
by:
Beth Summers
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 82. 
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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by:
Craig Marks
3.89 avg rating — 4,794 ratings 86. 
McDonald's® Happy Meal® Toys from the Eighties
by:
Joyce Losonsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
by:
Blake J. Harris
3.97 avg rating — 11,820 ratings 92. 
1980s Quiz Book: 1000 Questions for the Whole Family - Music, Movies, Travel, TV, Sport, News
by:
Lukas Aleksandr
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
94. 
In Search of Reagan's Brain (A Doonesbury Book)
by:
G.B. Trudeau
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 206 ratings 
96. 
Star Trek - All Good Things: A Next Generation Companion
by:
LeVar Burton
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings 98. 
Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original)
by:
Coleman Barks
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings 99. 
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Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties
by:
Andrew Farago
3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings