The Book of Disquiet
1982 · 468 pages
Pessoa invented an assistant bookkeeper in Lisbon and gave him hundreds of fragments on being alive in a rented room. Open the book anywhere and someone is already thinking your thoughts.
★ 8.4
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The Color Purple
1982 · 287 pages
Celie is fourteen, writing to God because there is nobody else to tell. Walker took her from there to a life she owns and won the first fiction Pulitzer given a Black woman.
★ 6.8
Subtle Is the Lord
The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
1982 · 576 pages
Einstein's physics taken as seriously as Einstein's life. Pais knew him at Princeton, could follow the mathematics, and produced the account against which every later scientific life of Einstein is measured.
★ 6.5
Schindler's List
1982 · 398 pages
Oskar Schindler, a Nazi profiteer, spent the fortune he made on slave labor buying more than a thousand Jews out of the camps. Keneally builds him from survivors' testimony and offers no explanation.
★ 6.4
The House of the Spirits
1982 · 433 pages
Clara predicts the future and moves furniture without touching it, while three generations of her family reach from the era of the great estates to the 1973 coup that comes for them.
★ 5.7
The BFG
1982 · 224 pages
The Big Friendly Giant speaks gloriously mangled English and blows dreams through a trumpet into children's bedrooms. Sophie, a sleepless orphan, is carried off to his country, where nine bigger giants eat children.
★ 5.3
Blue Highways
A Journey Into America
1982 · 448 pages
His marriage over and his job gone, Least Heat-Moon drove thirteen thousand miles of two-lane road in a van named Ghost Dancing and let Nameless, Tennessee and Dime Box, Texas do the talking.
★ 5.2