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Oldest Books

Below is a list of best books from the oldest to the newest.

Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
Age: 12+
Year: 1985
Pages: 324
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The Polar Express
by Chris Van Allsburg
Age: 4+
Year: 1985
Pages: 32
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The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
Age: 18+
Year: 1985
Pages: 864
Word count: 365,712
Galلpagos
by Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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English Grammar in Use
by Raymond Murphy
Age: 6+
Year: 1985
Pages: 391
Word count: 55,000
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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Perfume
by Patrick Süskind
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Age: 16+
Year: 1985
Pages: 311
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
Age: 13+
Year: 1985
Pages: 208
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
Pages: 560
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Age: 4+
Year: 1985
Pages: 40
Word count: 291
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Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
Pages: 512
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Contact
by Carl Sagan
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
Pages: 432
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Little Bear
by Else Holmelund Minarik
Age: 4+
Year: 1985
Pages: 63
Word count: 1,552
Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!
by Richard P. Feynman
Age: 16+
Year: 1985
Word count: 125,037
The Mammoth Hunters
by Jean M. Auel
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Age: 0+
Year: 1985
Pages: 233
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Love in The Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 18+
Year: 1985
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See also:
Classic Children Books
Classic School Age Children Books
Classic Books for Teenagers
Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
CVC Words
What you need to know to learn a new language?
Why I forget what I learned?
Vocabulary Size
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See also:
Classic Children Books
Classic School Age Children Books
Classic Books for Teenagers
Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
CVC Words
What you need to know to learn a new language?
Why I forget what I learned?
Vocabulary Size
More...

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