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📚 My 1987 Reading Project
As I approach 40, I'm reading the books that filled bestseller lists the year I was born. Some are classics, some are forgotten favorites, and some are titles I might never have picked up otherwise.
⭐ Core 1987 Bestsellers
Fiction
📖 IT | Stephen King
📖 Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy
📖 The Eyes of the Dragon | Stephen King
📖 Windmills of the Gods | Sidney Sheldon
📖 Fine Things | Danielle Steel
📖 The Haunted Mesa | Louis L'Amour
📖 Misery | Stephen King
📖 Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow
📖 Patriot Games | Tom Clancy
📖 Kaleidoscope | Danielle Steel
📖 The Tommyknockers | Stephen King
Nonfiction
📚 His Way | Kitty Kelley
📚 Spycatcher | Peter Wright
📚 The Cat Who Came for Christmas | Cleveland Amory
📚 You're Only Old Once! | Dr. Seuss
📚 Echoes in the Darkness | Joseph Wambaugh
✨ Honorable Mentions
Fiction
📖 Beloved | Toni Morrison
📖 Watchmen | Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
📖 Sphere | Michael Crichton
📖 Watchers | Dean Koontz
📖 The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King
📖 The Black Dahlia | James Ellroy
Nonfiction
📚 The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys | Doris Kearns Goodwin
📚 Love, Medicine & Miracles | Bernie Siegel
📚 Cultural Literacy | E.D. Hirsch Jr.
📚 Hold On, Mr. President! | Sam Donaldson
📚 This 'n That | Bette Davis
📚 The Great Depression of 1990 | Ravi Batra