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Joseph Heller


Born
in New York City, The United States
May 01, 1923

Died
December 12, 1999

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
William Saroyon


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 911,788 ratings · 29,284 reviews · 76 distinct works • Similar authors
Catch-22
3.99 avg rating — 885,035 ratings — published 1961 — 530 editions
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Something Happened
3.54 avg rating — 8,594 ratings — published 1974 — 106 editions
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Closing Time (Catch-22, #2)
3.07 avg rating — 6,220 ratings — published 1994 — 61 editions
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God Knows
3.80 avg rating — 3,744 ratings — published 1984 — 57 editions
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Good As Gold
3.39 avg rating — 3,417 ratings — published 1979 — 82 editions
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Picture This
3.71 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 1988 — 38 editions
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Portrait of an Artist, as a...
3.24 avg rating — 1,399 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions
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Catch As Catch Can: The Col...
3.54 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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No Laughing Matter
3.62 avg rating — 466 ratings — 25 editions
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Work
3.62 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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Catch-22 Closing Time
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“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller
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Polls

April 2018 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817, 249 pages, Last Read Aug. 2015
 
  56 votes, 15.0%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855, 521 pages, Last Read June 2015
 
  45 votes, 12.1%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961, 453 pages, Last Read Nov. 2013
 
  42 votes, 11.3%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960, 324 pages, Last Read 2016
 
  38 votes, 10.2%

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818, 273 pages, Last Read Oct. 2016
 
  37 votes, 9.9%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943, 496 pages, Last Read May 2013
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922, 422 pages, Last Read Jan. 2014
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984, 320 pages, Last Read Dec. 2012
 
  22 votes, 5.9%

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 1847, 251 pages, Last Read Mar 2016
 
  22 votes, 5.9%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1603, 316 pages, Last Read Oct. 2012
 
  21 votes, 5.6%

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 1878, 448 pages, Last Read Oct. 2015
 
  15 votes, 4.0%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages, Last Read July 2012
 
  14 votes, 3.8%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages, Last Read Sep. 2011
 
  13 votes, 3.5%

373 total votes
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