Beloved
1987 · 360 pages
Sethe escaped slavery years ago and cannot escape the daughter she lost, who comes back to the house as a young woman. Morrison writes American history's worst chapter with unbearable tenderness.
★ 9.4
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1987 · 838 pages
At a London crossing in 1933 a physicist grasps how a chain reaction could work. Rhodes follows the idea to Los Alamos and Hiroshima, making the physics clear and the human cost unbearable.
★ 7.9
And the Band Played On
1987 · 656 pages
Shilts reconstructed the AIDS epidemic's first years and showed the deaths were a political choice, from unfunded research to blood banks that refused to screen. He learned his diagnosis the day he finished.
★ 6.8
Fierce Attachments
A Memoir
1987 · 203 pages
Gornick walks Manhattan with her widowed mother, arguing the argument they have had since the Bronx tenement of her girlhood. Writing programs teach it as how a memoir is built.
★ 6.4
Crossing to Safety
1987 · 335 pages
Two couples meet as junior faculty in Depression-era Madison and stay bound to each other for forty years. Stegner locates the drama of a life in devotion, illness, and one woman's will.
★ 5.5
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1987 · 720 pages
Sherman McCoy, a Park Avenue bond trader who calls himself a Master of the Universe, takes a wrong turn into the Bronx. A boy is struck, and Wolfe feeds him to New York.
★ 5.3
Norwegian Wood
1987 · 298 pages
Hearing the Beatles song years later, a man returns to 1969 Tokyo, where his best friend's suicide left him loving two women at once. Murakami dropped the fantastic entirely, and Japan devoured it.
★ 5.3