New Books
- Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
- V.C. Andrews – Flowers in the Attic
- Jeffrey Archer – Kane and Abel
- Barbara Taylor Bradford – A Woman of Substance
- Raymond Briggs – Fungus the Bogeyman
- Octavia Butler – Kindred
- Orson Scott Card – A Planet Called Treason
- Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber
- Agatha Christie – Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
- L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan the Liberator
- Thomas Flanagan - Year of the French
- Alan Dean Foster -Alien
- William Golding – Darkness Visible
- William Goldman – Tinsel
- Arthur Hailey – Overload
- Douglas Hill – Galactic Warlord
- Sian James – A Small Country
- Philippe Jullian – Montmartre
- Stephen King – The Dead Zone
- Russell Kirk – The Princess of All Lands
- Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- John le Carré – Smiley's People
- Morgan Llywelyn – Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru
- Robert Ludlum – The Matarese Circle
- Norman Mailer – The Executioner's Song
- Dambudzo Marechera – The House of Hunger
- V. S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River
- Ellis Peters - One Corpse Too Many
- Daniel Pinkwater – Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
- Jerry Pournelle – Janissaries
- Harold Robbins – Memories of Another Day
- Philip Roth – The Ghost Writer
- Mary Stewart – The Last Enchantment
- Peter Straub – Ghost Story
- William Styron – Sophie's Choice
- Jack Vance – The Face
- Kurt Vonnegut – Jailbird
- Elizabeth Walter – In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters
- William Wharton – Birdy
- Kit Williams – Masquerade
- Raymond Williams – The Fight for Manod
- Robert Anton Wilson – Schrodinger's Cat
- Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
- Christopher Wood – James Bond and Moonraker
- Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks
- Trevanian -Shibumi
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