1987 in literature

See also: 1986 in literature, other events of 1987, 1988 in literature, list of years in literature.

Published books

• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
• The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
• The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
• Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis
• Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
• Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
• Espedair Street - Iain Banks
• Fine Things - Danielle Steel
• The Forge of God - Greg Bear
• Heaven and Hell - John Jakes
• In the Skin of A Lion - Michael Ondaatje
• ' - Salman Rushdie
• Kaleidoscope - Danielle Steel
• Legacy - James A. Michener
• Leaving Home - Garrison Keillor
• Misery - Stephen King
• Mort - Terry Pratchett
• No Deals, Mr. Bond - John Gardner
• Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
• L'Obsédante obèse et autres agressions - Gilles Archambault
• Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
• Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
• Replay - Ken Grimwood
• Rich in Love - Josephine Humphreys
• The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
• The Runaways - Ruth Thomas
• Spycatcher - Peter Wright
• Swann - Carol Shields
• Time Flies - Bill Cosby
• The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
• Weaveworld - Clive Barker
• When Rabbit Howls - Truddi Chase
• Windmills of the Gods - Sidney Sheldon