1980 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Richard Adams
  • The Girl in a Swing
  • The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
• Warren Adler - The War of the Roses
• Woody Allen - Side Effects
• Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
• Thomas Berger - Neighbors
• Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
• Ramsey Campbell, editor - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
• Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah
• Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall
• J. M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
• Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman
• Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline
• Basil Copper - Necropolis
• Roald Dahl - The Twits
• L. Sprague de Camp
  • Conan and the Spider God
  • The Purple Pterodactyls
• Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster
• E. L. Doctorow - Loon Lake
• Allan W. Eckert - Song of the Wild
• Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
• Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca
• Frederick Forsyth - The Devil's Alternative
• Mary Jayne Gold - Crossroads Marseilles 1940
• William Golding - Rites of Passage
• Douglas Hill - Deathwing Over Veynaa
• Douglas Hill - Day of the Starwind
• Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - The Treasure of Tranicos
• L. Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
• P. D. James - Innocent Blood
• Stephen King - Firestarter
• Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy
• Björn Kurtén - Dance of the Tiger
• John le Carré - Smiley's People
• Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light
• Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
• Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Spooks and Spectres
• James A. Michener - The Covenant
• Cees Nooteboom - Rituals

• Robert B. Parker - Looking for Rachel Wallace
• Ellis Peters - Monk's Hood
• Belva Plain - Random Winds
• Marin Preda - Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)
• Herman Raucher - There Should Have Been Castles
• Mordecai Richler - Joshua Then and Now
• Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
• Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
• Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels
• Gay Talese - Thy Neighbor's Wife
• Walter Tevis - "Mockingbird"
• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
• Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
• Roger Zelazny
  • Changeling
  • The Last Defender of Camelot