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Fiction 1985
Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Jean M. Auel - The Mammoth Hunters
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
John Irving - The Cider House Rules
Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
Carl Sagan - Contact
Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
Clive Barker - The Damnation Game
Greg Bear - Blood Music and Eon
Anthony Burgess - The Kingdom of the Wicked
M. C. Beaton - Death of a Gossip
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Honour
Elizabeth Darrell - At the Going Down of the Sun
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
John Fowles - A Maggot
Imil Habibi - The Secret Life of Saeed
Amy Hempel - Reasons to Live
Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse: Dune
Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
Richard A. Lupoff - Lovecraft's Book
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
John D. MacDonald - The Lonely Silver Rain
Naguib Mahfouz - Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
James A. Michener - Texas
Brian Moore - Black Robe
Bharati Mukherjee - Darkness
Robert B. Parker - Catskill Eagle
Caryl Phillips - The Final Passage
Peter Pohl - Johnny, My Friend (Janne, min vän)
Sidney Sheldon - If Tomorrow Comes
Danielle Steel - Secrets
Sue Townsend - Rebuilding Coventry
Anne Tyler - The Accidental Tourist
Andrew Vachss - Flood
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Roger Zelazny - Trumps of Doom
New York Times Bestseller list 1985
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
Family Album by Danielle Steel
Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Hold the Dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Lucky by Jackie Collins
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Texas by James Michener
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
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Comedy 1985
Best Comedy Recording: Whoopi Goldberg - Whoopi Goldberg
Literary News 1985
"Spin Magazine" begins publishing
Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon
Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
Non Fiction 1985
Roger Caron - Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot
Michael Denton - Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Elaine Dundy - Elvis and Gladys
Wayne Kritsberg - The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome
Tim O'Brien - The Nuclear Age
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley - Elvis and Me
David Robinson - Chaplin: His Life and Art
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
1985 Tony Awards (theater)
Outstanding Play: Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
Outstanding Actor Play: Derek Jacobi Much Ado About Nothing
Outstanding Actress Play: Stockard Channing A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Outstanding Featured Actor Play: Barry Miller Biloxi Blues
Outstanding Featured Actress Play: Judith Ivey Hurleyburly
Outstanding Direction Play:Gene Saks Biloxi Blues
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