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Ready Player One

Fiction Bestsellers

10) Stephen King's It (1986)     
9) Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising (1986)
8) James A. Michener's Texas (1985)
7) Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)
6) Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
5) Danielle Steel's Daddy (1989)
4) Jean M. Auel's The Mammoth Hunters (1985)
3) Stephen King's The Tommyknockers (1987)
2) Stephen King's The Dark Half (1989)
1) Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger (1989)

Publishers Weekly. (n.d.). Top 25: Top best sellers of the 1980s. Deseret News. Retrieved from http://www.deseretnews.com/article/79390/TOP-25--TOP-25-BEST-SELLERS-OF-THE-1980S.html?pg=all

Non-Fiction Bestsellers

 10) Gen. Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos's Yeager, An Autobiography (1985)     
9) Stephen W. Hawking's A Brief History of Time (1988)
8) Jeff Smith's The Frugal Gourmet (1985)
7) Jane Fonda's Workout Book (1981)
6) Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

5) Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.'s

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (1982)

4) Harvey and Marilyn Diamond's Fit for Life (1985)
3) Robert e. Kowalski's The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1987)
2) Bill Cosby's Fatherhood (1986)
1) Lee Iacocca with William Novak's Iacocca: An Autobiography (1984)

Publishers Weekly. (n.d.). Top 25: Top best sellers of the 1980s. Deseret News. Retrieved from http://www.deseretnews.com/article/79390/TOP-25--TOP-25-BEST-SELLERS-OF-THE-1980S.html?pg=all