Amityville: The Horror ReturnsW
Amityville: The Horror Returns

Amityville: The Horror Returns is a 1989 horror novel and the fifth installment in Amityville book series written by John G. Jones. It is the final book to be about the Lutzes as they are stalked by the presence they fled from in Amityville.

Callahan's LadyW
Callahan's Lady

Callahan's Lady (1989) is a science fiction novel by American writer Spider Robinson, the fourth in his Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series. It is made up of 11 vignettes, all revolving around a bar and brothel owned by Lady Sally McGee, wife of Mike Callahan. The stories are written in the same fast-paced, pun-laced prose Robinson is noted for.

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecerW
El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer (1989) is a novel from Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

Diary of a Short-Sighted AdolescentW
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent is a novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It is based on Eliade's time in high-school and tells the story of a precocious teenager with literary ambitions. The book was written in the 1920s when Eliade was still a teenager. It was discovered after the author's death and published in 1989 in Romania. An English translation was published in 2016 in the UK.

Elizaveta PolonskayaW
Elizaveta Polonskaya

Elizaveta Grigorevna Polonskaya, born Movshenson (Russian: Мовшенсо́н; June 26 [O.S. June 14] 1890 – January 11, 1969), was a Russian Jewish poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers.

Felidae (novel)W
Felidae (novel)

Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany. There are eight books in the Felidae series: Felidae, Felidae II, Cave Canem, Das Duell, Salve Roma!, Schandtat, Felipolis and Göttergleich, of which only Felidae, Felidae II, and Felidae V: Salve Roma! have been translated into English.

Funland (novel)W
Funland (novel)

Funland is a 1989 novel by Richard Laymon. Set in the resort community of Boleta Bay, a violent gang of unknown assailants is assaulting the guests of the titular amusement park.

The General in His LabyrinthW
The General in His Labyrinth

The General in His Labyrinth is a 1989 dictator novel by Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It is a fictionalized account of the last seven months of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. The book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe. Breaking with the traditional heroic portrayal of Bolívar El Libertador, García Márquez depicts a pathetic protagonist, a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally exhausted. The story explores the labyrinth of Bolívar's life through the narrative of his memories, in which "despair, sickness, and death inevitably win out over love, health, and life".

Good Girls Don't Wear TrousersW
Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers

Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers is an autobiographical novel by Lara Cardella. It was published by Mondadori in 1989, when the author was only 19.

The Harrowing of GwyneddW
The Harrowing of Gwynedd

The Harrowing of Gwynedd is a historical fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Del Rey Books in 1989. It was the tenth of Kurtz' Deryni novels to be published, and the first book in her fourth Deryni trilogy, The Heirs of Saint Camber. Although the Heirs trilogy was the fourth Deryni series to be published, it is a direct sequel to the second trilogy, The Legends of Camber of Culdi.

The History of the Siege of LisbonW
The History of the Siege of Lisbon

The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, first published in 1989.

Like Water for Chocolate (novel)W
Like Water for Chocolate (novel)

Like Water for Chocolate is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.

Lust (Jelinek novel)W
Lust (Jelinek novel)

Lust is a novel by Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek. Originally published in German in 1989, it was translated into English in 1992 by Michael Hulse.

The Melancholy of ResistanceW
The Melancholy of Resistance

The Melancholy of Resistance is a 1989 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The narrative is set in a restless town where a mysterious circus, which exhibits a whale and nothing else, contributes to an apocalyptic atmosphere. Krasznahorkai adapted the novel into a screenplay for the 2000 film Werckmeister Harmonies, directed by Béla Tarr.

Mr PonsonbyW
Mr Ponsonby

Mr Ponsonby is the fourth novel from noted New Zealand author Ian Middleton, and is described as "his eulogy to a gentrifying Ponsonby". He had an intimate connection with Ponsonby, where the book is set, beginning in 1942 and returning to live there in later life. It is the story of a man driven by greed, willing to destroy the character and nature of a lively, spirited community for the sake of a dollar. Mr Ponsonby "vividly recreates the atmosphere and characters of an Auckland suburb threatened by reconstruction" and the clash between the proponents of progress, development and gentrification and the inhabitants of an established community with its own unique character.

My Life with a Criminal: Milly's StoryW
My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story

My Life with a Criminal is a 1989 novel by Kenyan author John Kiriamiti. It is the sequel to Kiriamiti's first book in the My Life... trilogy, My Life in Crime, and is told from the point of view of his girlfriend, Milly. A film adaptation of the trilogy is currently being made.

Nostalgia (novel)W
Nostalgia (novel)

Nostalgia is a novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. The narrative consists of five distinct parts which assiduously link together to produce a narrative that is on the one hand disjointed and on the other produces, as a whole, a kind of hidden centre while negotiation the Romanian relationship to time and place, state and nationalism, communism and community, the rural and the capital with a neurotic, hallucinatory fervor that itself seems an exhalation of all of these anxieties.

On the MountainW
On the Mountain

On the Mountain is Thomas Bernhard’s first prose work, which he completed in 1959, yet the last of his works to be published, in 1989, the year of his death.

The Power of One (novel)W
The Power of One (novel)

The Power of One is a novel by Australian author Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an English boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the name of Peekay.

Roman 1987W
Roman 1987

Roman 1987 is a 1987 novel by Norwegian author Dag Solstad. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989.

SlayersW
Slayers

Slayers is a Japanese light novel series written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated by Rui Araizumi. The novels have been serialized in Dragon Magazine since 1989, before being published into individual volumes. They follow the adventures of teenage sorceress Lina Inverse and her companions as they journey through their world. Using powerful magic and swordsmanship they battle overreaching wizards, demons seeking to destroy the world, and an occasional hapless gang of bandits.

The Sword of KnowledgeW
The Sword of Knowledge

The Sword of Knowledge is a trilogy of shared world fantasy novels credited to the authors C. J. Cherryh, Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire, and Mercedes Lackey. The three novels in the series were all published by Baen Books in 1989: A Dirge for Sabis, Wizard Spawn, and Reap the Whirlwind. The books were first released as a complete trilogy in an omnibus edition in 1995.

Tecknens rikeW
Tecknens rike

Tecknens rike is a 1989 book by Swedish author and sinologist Cecilia Lindqvist about the history of Chinese language writing. It won the August Prize in 1989.

The Third Reich (novel)W
The Third Reich (novel)

The Third Reich is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño written in 1989. It was discovered among his papers following his death and published in Spanish in 2010. An English translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in November 2011.

Dinosaur Park (novel)W
Dinosaur Park (novel)

Dinosaur Park is a science fiction novel by American writer Hayford Peirce, first published by Tor in 1989 under the title The Thirteenth Majestral and republished as Dinosaur Park in 1994. The nondescript cover of the original book had no relation to the story. The 1992 Italian edition had a cover by Oscar Chichoni featuring dinosaurs, which were indeed in the story, and in June 1994 Tor reissued the book under its new title, using the same cover as the Italian edition. Jurassic Park, a 1990 novel by Michael Crichton, had recently been a bestseller and Tor may have hoped to capitalize on the similarity of the names and theme. The original book, The Thirteenth Majestral, was published before Jurassic Park.

The Tivington NottW
The Tivington Nott

The Tivington Nott is a novel by the Australian author Alex Miller and is based on the lives of real people in Somerset on the borders of Exmoor. Miller tells his own story of a young labourer swept up in the adventure of riding second horse in a west country stag hunt. The Tivington Nott was first published by Robert Hale (UK) in 1989 and was republished by Allen & Unwin (Australia) in 2005.

Traveling on One LegW
Traveling on One Leg

Traveling on One Leg is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1989 by Rotbuch Verlag. An English translation was made available in 1998.

Vendela (novel)W
Vendela (novel)

Vendela is a historical novel by Finnish author Kaari Utrio.