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Novels Published in 1987

Rank Title Author Added

1

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

13,898 members

232 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Edward, hailelib, eromsted, norabelle414, Samantha_kathy, souloftherose, ahef1963

2

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,962 members

190 reviews

4.1

4 Members: DeltaQueen50, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963

3

by Toni Morrison

23,024 members

409 reviews

3.9

5 Members: eromsted, Chatterbox, thorold, Dilara86, ahef1963

4

Knots and Crosses

3,632 members

133 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thorold, Soupdragon, Samantha_kathy, DeltaQueen50

5

by Terry Pratchett

15,860 members

254 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Myyst, souloftherose, cej1027, ahef1963

6

Gone to Soldiers

by Marge Piercy

877 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Soupdragon, Samantha_kathy, elkiedee

7

The Radiant Way

by Margaret Drabble

819 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: eromsted, thorold, ahef1963

8

by Haruki Murakami

16,380 members

357 reviews

3.9

3 Members: eromsted, Myyst, souloftherose

9

Bitter Medicine

by Sara Paretsky

1,126 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Soupdragon, Samantha_kathy, elkiedee

10

by Octavia E. Butler

3,459 members

129 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86

11

by Michael Crichton

9,871 members

121 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: eromsted, Chatterbox, ahef1963

12

by Penelope Lively

2,171 members

88 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Soupdragon, souloftherose

13

1,305 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: eromsted, Chatterbox, Samantha_kathy

14

by James Clavell

1,863 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Chatterbox, ahef1963

15

Arrows of the Queen

by Mercedes Lackey

3,959 members

69 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, Samantha_kathy

16

3,251 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, Samantha_kathy

17

by Stephen King

22,097 members

411 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Chatterbox, ahef1963

18

The Dinner Party

121 members

1 review

2.9

2 Members: Chatterbox, Samantha_kathy

19

A Fatal Inversion

by Barbara Vine

759 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Soupdragon, Samantha_kathy

20

Rumpole's Last Case

by John Mortimer

315 members

6 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

21

by Terry Pratchett

14,496 members

255 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Myyst, souloftherose

22

by Stephen King

15,451 members

208 reviews

4

2 Members: Chatterbox, ahef1963

23

The Ladies of Missalonghi

by Colleen McCullough

975 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Chatterbox, Samantha_kathy

24

by Bruce Chatwin

3,558 members

59 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Chatterbox, thorold

25

by Clive Barker

4,211 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: Myyst, ahef1963

26

Presumed Innocent

4,335 members

76 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Chatterbox, ahef1963

27

More Die of Heartbreak

1,085 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: eromsted, Chatterbox

28

7,355 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Chatterbox, Samantha_kathy

29

by Edward Rutherfurd

4,067 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: Chatterbox, ahef1963

30

Murder in the CIA

by Margaret Truman

436 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Samantha_kathy

31

Windmills of the Gods

by Sidney Sheldon

1,629 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Chatterbox

32

by Jeanette Winterson

3,643 members

57 reviews

4

Member: thorold

33

When Gravity Fails

by George Alec Effinger

1,472 members

34 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

34

by William Golding

367 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

35

The Hearts and Lives of Men

351 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Soupdragon

36

A Trouble of Fools

by Linda Barnes

483 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Soupdragon

37

Freelance Death

by Andrew Taylor

28 members

2 reviews

3

Member: Samantha_kathy

38

by Larry McMurtry

891 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Chatterbox

39

Civil to Strangers

423 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: souloftherose

40

The Bearkeeper's Daughter

by Gillian Bradshaw

214 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

41

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

15,973 members

246 reviews

4.1

Member: Myyst

42

Daughter of the Empire

by Raymond E. Feist

3,732 members

67 reviews

4.1

Member: Myyst

43

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

2,695 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

44

Asterix and the Magic Carpet

by Albert Uderzo

1,284 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

45

Chanur's Homecoming

by C. J. Cherryh

1,203 members

19 reviews

4

Member: souloftherose

46

Akira, Volume 4

by Katsuhiro Otomo

827 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Myyst

47

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Volume 4

by Hayao Miyazaki

421 members

½ 4.5

Member: Myyst

48

Το Μυστικό Μονοπάτι

by Ευγένιος Τριβιζάς

2 members

4

Member: Myyst

49

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

9,372 members

84 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

50

On Stranger Tides

1,725 members

45 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

51

by Doris Mortman

81 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Chatterbox

52

by James A. Michener

837 members

10 reviews

3.2

Member: Chatterbox

53

A Sport of Nature

by Nadine Gordimer

497 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

54

Bluebeard: a novel

by Kurt Vonnegut

4,563 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: eromsted

55

by Magda Szabó

1,829 members

90 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

56

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

1,122 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

57

1,102 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

58

The Western Lands

by William S. Burroughs

849 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: eromsted

59

Children of the Arbat

by Anatolij Rybakow

720 members

10 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

60

by Abdelrahman Munif

633 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

61

You Bright & Risen Angels

by William T. Vollmann

419 members

4 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

62

The Messiah of Stockholm

by Cynthia Ozick

371 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

63

Christopher Unborn

by Carlos Fuentes

330 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: eromsted

64

Storming Heaven

by Denise Giardina

322 members

5 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

65

by Harry Mathews

297 members

1 review

3.8

Member: eromsted

66

Accident: A Day's News

by Christa Wolf

241 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

67

Stick Out Your Tongue: Stories

206 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: eromsted

68

Some Soul To Keep

by J. California Cooper

148 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: eromsted

69

Being Invisible

by Thomas Berger

125 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: eromsted

70

Who Was David Weiser?

by Paweł Huelle

121 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

71

by II Paco Ignacio Taibo

104 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

72

Diario de un hombre humillado

by Félix de Azúa

90 members

½ 3.3

Member: eromsted

73

Lenin: The Novel

74 members

1 review

½ 2.3

Member: eromsted

74

by Merle Collins

63 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: eromsted

75

Il poema dei lunatici

by Ermanno Cavazzoni

56 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: eromsted

76

by Wiliam Owen Roberts

42 members

4

Member: eromsted

77

Steps under Water: A Novel

by Alicia Kozameh

21 members

5

Member: eromsted

78

A Distant and Beautiful Place

11 members

Member: eromsted

79

A Southern Family

311 members

2 reviews

3.2

Member: Chatterbox

80

by Garrison Keillor

1,781 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Chatterbox

81

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,993 members

132 reviews

3.8

Member: Chatterbox

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