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1987 Books & Bestsellers |
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1987 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Tommyknockers by Stephen King 2. Patriot Games by Tom Clancy 3. Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel 4. Misery by Stephen King 5. Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories by Garrison Keillor 6. Windmills of the Gods by Sidney Sheldon 7. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow 8. Fine Things by Danielle Steel 9. Heaven and Hell by John Jakes 10. The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King |
1987 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Time Flies by Bill Cosby 2. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass 3. Family: The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag! by Erma Bombeck 4. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward 5. A Day in the Life of America by Rick Smolan and David Cohen 6. The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra 7. It’s All in the Playing by Shirley MacLaine 8. Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill by Thomas P. O’Neill Jr with William Novak 9. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith 10. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom |
New York Times Bestsellers |
| A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein Communion by Whitley Strieber Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Bernie S. Siegel The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Spycatcher by Peter Wright Veil by Bob Woodward The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra Free to Be… A Family, edited by Marlo Thomas with Christopher Cerf and Letty Cottin Pogrebin Time Flies by Bill Cosby |
1987 Notable Literature |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison Black Athena Vol. 1 by Martin Bernal The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom The Truly Disadvantaged by William J. Wilson |
| 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1987, according to GoodReads |