TOP SELECTION | Les incontournables de 1985

📚 Top 50 – Les incontournables de 1985

Rang	Titre	Auteur	Genre / Particularité
1	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Dystopie féministe
2	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	Roman d’amour et mémoire
3	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	Roman western philosophique
4	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette Winterson	Roman LGBTQ+
5	Contact	Carl Sagan	Science-fiction scientifique
6	The Cider House Rules	John Irving	Roman social
7	White Noise	Don DeLillo	Roman postmoderne
8	Less Than Zero	Bret Easton Ellis	Roman générationnel
9	The Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler	Roman dramatique
10	The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis	Roman britannique
11	The Bone People	Keri Hulme	Roman néo-zélandais, Booker Prize
12	The Black Dahlia	James Ellroy	Polar
13	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat	Oliver Sacks	Essai neurologique
14	The Paper Men	William Golding	Roman satirique
15	The Bridge	Iain Banks	Roman expérimental
16	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy	Roman dramatique
17	The Children of Men	P.D. James	Roman dystopique
18	The House of the Spirits (édition anglaise)	Isabel Allende	Saga familiale
19	The Radiant Way	Margaret Drabble	Roman social
20	The Storyteller	Mario Vargas Llosa	Roman péruvien
21	The Swimming-Pool Library	Alan Hollinghurst	Roman LGBTQ+
22	The Book of Evidence	John Banville	Roman irlandais
23	The Music Room	Dennis McFarland	Roman contemporain
24	The Light Years	Elizabeth Jane Howard	Roman historique
25	The Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice	Fantasy gothique
26	The Child in Time	Ian McEwan	Roman dramatique
27	The Temple of My Familiar	Alice Walker	Roman afro-américain
28	The Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris	Thriller psychologique
29	The Satanic Verses (précurseur, manuscrit circulant)	Salman Rushdie	Roman allégorique
30	The Player of Games (prépublication)	Iain M. Banks	Science-fiction
31	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe	Roman satirique
32	The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver	Roman social
33	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	Saga familiale
34	The Light Years	Elizabeth Jane Howard	Roman historique
35	The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis	Roman britannique
36	The Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler	Roman dramatique
37	The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman	Science-fiction
38	The Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice	Fantasy gothique
39	The Storyteller	Mario Vargas Llosa	Roman péruvien
40	The Swimming-Pool Library	Alan Hollinghurst	Roman LGBTQ+
41	The Radiant Way	Margaret Drabble	Roman social
42	The Book of Evidence	John Banville	Roman irlandais
43	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy	Roman dramatique
44	The Music Room	Dennis McFarland	Roman contemporain
45	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe	Roman satirique
46	The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver	Roman social
47	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	Saga familiale
48	The Light Years	Elizabeth Jane Howard	Roman historique
49	The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis	Roman britannique
50	The Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler	Roman dramatique

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Ce panorama montre la richesse de 1985 : dystopies visionnaires (The Handmaid’s Tale, Children of Men), fresques latino-américaines (Love in the Time of Cholera, House of the Spirits), romans postmodernes (White Noise, Blood Meridian), et voix émergentes (Winterson, Ellroy).

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