Suggest me a boom from the years 1978, 1980, 1982, 1998, 2000 or 2002 (pre Reddit, whoa 😱

Hello

I am doing a book challenge and one of the prompts is to find a book from the years you turned 2, 0, 20, 22, or 24 (any combination of 2024!).

For me the years are 1978, 1980, 1982, 1998, 2000 or 2002.

I am looking to read a book that has then become a reference, a best seller still, symbolic of those decades, or influential.

Preferably fiction, possibly non fiction. Can also be a comic book

I dislike
– Gabriel Garcia Marques (I know he published a lot in those years, so I prefer taking him out of the running right away, I have never been able to get into his prose)
– fantasy, science fiction, horror, thriller if it's too gore
– tropes
– sexual violence and violence against children can be a trigger

I love
– reads that send me into a world I don't know (into a completely different world culture) – would love an author not from Europe or North America
– historical fiction (again, getting into a complete different world) but one where violence against women is completely normalized (looking at you, author of Pillars of the Earth, can't remember the name)
– coming of age stories
– romance (again, not if it's the usual tropes of the man is a wounded man and the woman has to do all or most of the emotional work and story is based on them not being to share their innermost shame)

Recent books I read and really liked : – – Maame Jessica George
– Mornings in Jenin Susan Abulhawa
– Have you seen her Catherine McKenzie
– The visit Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
– All we can save
– The boy toy Nicola Marsh
– Pachinko Min Jin Lee

Let me know if you have ideas 📚📖📜