| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: Moving several years into the future, he gave us "2010: Odyssey Two" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: A group of Chinese women in San Francisco meet to play mah-jongg & talk in this Amy Tan bestseller The Joy Luck Club |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1200: After dishing the dirt on "Hollywood Wives", she took on "Hollywood Husbands" (Jackie) Collins |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1600: This bestseller from Dr. Seuss was billed as "a book for obsolete children" You're Only Old Once |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $2000: He made "Contact" with his bestselling novel about Dr. Ellie Arroway, an astronomer trying to reach out to aliens Sagan |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: In 1986 he celebrated his 82nd birthday with the publication of "You're Only Old Once!" Dr. Seuss |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: In this 1988 bestseller, James Michener told the story of the 49th state Alaska |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1200: In 1981 he checked into the bestseller list with "The Hotel New Hampshire" John Irving |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1600: His 1987 novel "Texasville" reintroduced the characters of "The Last Picture Show", all 30 years older Larry McMurtry |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $2000: The top fiction book of 1985 was Jean Auel's novel about these Ice Age "Hunters" The Mammoth Hunters |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | DECADES OF BESTSELLERS $1000: "The Mammoth Hunters" &
"The Queen of the Damned" the 1980s |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: The book that started it all, his "The Bourne Identity" was a bestseller in 1980 Robert Ludlum |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: His "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" was the top-selling fiction book of 1988 Tom Clancy |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1200: In 1982 & '83, he had back-to-back bestsellers with "Foundation's Edge" & "The Robots of Dawn" (Isaac) Asimov |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1600: Sadly, she passed away in May 1989, shortly before the publication of her memoir "It's Always Something" Gilda Radner |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $2000: A lawyer can't stop losing weight after he's cursed in this 1985 Stephen King/Richard Bachman bestseller Thinner |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | BESTSELLERS OF THE DECADE $800: "Red Storm Rising"
& "The Prince of Tides" the 1980s |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: Robert Fulghum shared "uncommon thoughts on common things" in "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in" here Kindergarten |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: Her autobiography "Shelley: Also Known as Shirley" was a bestseller in 1980 Shelley Winters |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1600: Gore Vidal's monumental novel about this president was a bestseller in 1984 Lincoln |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Of all of Stephen King's bestsellers, this hefty novel from 1986 has the shortest title It |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $2000: The third book in her "Earth's Children" series, "The Mammoth Hunters" was a mammoth bestseller in 1985 (Jean) Auel |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | BESTSELLERS $1200: In the 1980s he was quite at home on the bestseller list with books like "Misery", "Cujo" & "Christine" Stephen King |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $200: It includes the line "I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it" Silence of the Lambs |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: This auto executive's autobiography was the No. 1 nonfiction book of 1984 & 1985 (Lee) Iacocca |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $600: Stephen King fans found it hard to rest in peace after reading this bestseller about an animal graveyard Pet Sematary |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: The bestselling biography of 1989 was "A Woman Named" this Jackie |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1000: In 1980 his "Rage of Angels" was all the rage Sidney Sheldon |
