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Jan.
1 Herman Wouk The Winds of War 20/1 AMER N
Feb. 1980
2 Robert Scholes 3 Structuralism in Literature 20/2 AMER CR
3 Robert Scholes 4 Structural Fabulation 20/3 AMER CR
4 David Gerrold 2 Yesterday's Children 20/4 AMER SF
5 Elias Canetti 1 Die Befristeten (deutsch) 20/1 GER PL
6 Thomas Hardy 3 Jude the Obscure 19/1 ENG N
March 1980
7 Ursula LeGuin 1 A Wizard of Earthsea 20/5 AMER SF
8 Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus 20/1 GER N
9 M. Rodzianko 1 The Truth about the Russian Church Abroad 20/1 RUSS TH
10 Timothy Ware 1 The Orthodox Church 20/1 ENG TH
11 Charles Humana 1 The Keeper of the Bed 20/2 ENG HI
12 Archimandrite Sophrony 1 The Monk of Mount Athos 20/2 RUSS TH
13 Ursula LeGuin 2 The Tombs of Atuan 20/6 AMER SF
April 1980
14 Erma Bombeck I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression 20/7 AMER HU
15 Ed Hogan (ed.) Aspect #76 20/8 AMER MA
16 Ursula LeGuin 3 The Farthest Shore 29/9 AMER SF
17 James Hogan 4 Two Faces of Tomorrow 20/3 ENG SF
18 Ursula LeGuin 4 The Left Hand of Darkness 20/10 AMER SF
19 James Hogan 5 Thrice Upon a Time 20/4 ENG SF
20 Stanislaw Lem 1 The Futurological Congress 20/1 POL SF
21 Philip Roth 1 Portnoy's Complaint 20/11 AMER N
22 Frank Herbert 7 Bill Ransom 1 The Jesus Incident 20/12 AMER SF
May 1980
23 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago III 20/3 RUSS HI
24 Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights (2nd) 19/1 RUSS N
25 Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Disgraceful Affair 19/2 RUSS N
26 John Updike 1 Couples 20/13 AMER N
27 Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler 19/3 RUSS N
June 1980
28 Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Eternal Husband 19/4 RUSS N
29 Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Landlady 19/5 RUSS N
birth of Mikey
30 Walter Wangerin Book of the Dun Cow 20/14 AMER N/CH
31 Judith Rossner 1 Looking for Mr. Goodbar 20/15 AMER N
July 1980
32 Philip Jose Farmer 1 To Your Scattered Bodies Go 20/16 AMER SF
33 Philip Jose Farmer 2 The Fabulous Riverboat 20/17 AMER SF
Sept. 1980
34 John Updike 2 The Coup 20/18 AMER N
35 Frederick Forsyth 1 The Day of the Jackal 20/5 ENG SU
36 John Le Carre 1 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 20/6 ENG SU
Oct. 1980
37 Herman Wouk War & Remembrance 20/19 AMER N
38 Barbara Tuchman 3 A Distant Mirror 20/20 AMER HI
39 Anne McCaffrey 1 Dragonsong 20/21 AMER SF
Nov. 1980
40 Robert Penn Warren 4 Night Rider 20/22 AMER N
42 Barbara Tuchman 4 Stilwell & the American Experience in China 20/24 AMER HI
41 Anne McCaffrey 2 Dragonsinger 20/23 AMER SF
Dec. 1980
sale of Name of Hero
43 W.A.P. Martin 1 A Cycle of Cathay 19/1 AMER HI
44 Harry Schwartz 1 Tsars, Mandarins & Commissars 20/25 AMER HI
45 Pearl Buck 2 The Exile 20/26 AMER HI
46 Pearl Buck 3 Fighting Angel 20/27 AMER HI