Fiction 1984

Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October

Dr. Seuss - The Butter Battle Book

John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick

Gore Vidal - Lincoln

Danielle Steel - Full Circle

Warren Adler - Random Hearts

Kingsley Amis - Stanley and the Women

Martin Amis - Money

Jeffrey Archer - First Among Equals

Richard Bachman - Thinner

J. G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

J. J. Benitez - Caballo de Troya

Michael Bishop - One Winter in Eden and Who Made Stevie Crye?

Simon Brett - A Shock to the System

David Brin - The Practice Effect

Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac

Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street

Bernard & Judy Cornwell - Fallen Angels

Marguerite Duras - L'Amant

Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine

Howard Fast - The Outsider

Frederick Forsyth - The Fourth Protocol

John Gardner - Role of Honour

William Gibson - Neuromancer

Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds

Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune

John Jakes - Love and War

Stephen King, Peter Straub - The Talisman

Russell Kirk - Watchers at the Strait Gate

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Robert Ludlum - The Aquitaine Progression

Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Magic Horses

Robert B. Parker - Valediction

Mario Puzo - The Sicilian

Thomas Pynchon - Slow Learner: Early Stories

Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Michael Slade - Headhunter

Neal Stephenson - The Big U

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

New York Times Bestseller list 1984

Who Killed the Robins Family? by Bill Adler and Thomas Chastain

The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum

Full Circle by Danielle Steel

"...and Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmeyer

First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer

The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

1984 Tony Awards (theater)

Play: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

Actor Play: Jeremy Irons The Real Thing

Actress Play: Glenn Close The Real Thing

Featured Actor Play: Joe Mantegna Glengarry Glen Ross

Featured Actress Play: Christine Baranski The Real Thing

Director Play: Mike Nichols The Real Thing

Comedy 1984

Best Comedy Recording: Eat It - Weird Al Yankovic

Literary News 1984

Of Mice and Men, the novel by John Steinbeck, was removed from Tennessee public schools when the School Board Chair promised to remove all "filthy books" from public school curricula and libraries.

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic book)

Nobel Prize in Literature: Jaroslav Seifert

Nebula Award: William Gibson, Neuromancer

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William J. Kennedy - Ironweed

Non Fiction 1984

Morrill Cody & Hugh Ford - The Women of Montparnasse, the Americans in Paris.

Roald Dahl - Boy an autobiography

Lee Iacocca - Iacocca: An Autobiography.

Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

Derek Parfit - Reasons and Persons.

Joan Peters - From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine.

Herbert Jay Stern - Judgment in Berlin.