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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 · 911,130 ratings · 29,235 reviews · 76 distinct works • Similar authors
Catch-22
3.99 avg rating — 884,391 ratings — published 1961 — 530 editions
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Something Happened
3.54 avg rating — 8,589 ratings — published 1974 — 51 editions
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Closing Time (Catch-22, #2)
3.07 avg rating — 6,212 ratings — published 1994 — 61 editions
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God Knows
3.80 avg rating — 3,743 ratings — published 1984 — 57 editions
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Good As Gold
3.39 avg rating — 3,415 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...
3.23 avg rating — 1,400 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 — 305 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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Series by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 Closing Time
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Quotes by Joseph Heller  (?)
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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

January 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Poll

 
  11 votes, 21.6%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
 
  9 votes, 17.6%

1961, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages
 
  6 votes, 11.8%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
 
  6 votes, 11.8%

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
 
  5 votes, 9.8%

 
  4 votes, 7.8%

 
  4 votes, 7.8%

 
  3 votes, 5.9%

1861, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.9%

 
  1 vote, 2.0%

51 total votes
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