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Shirley Jackson

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

December 14, 1916

Died

August 08, 1965

Genre

Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories

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Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,013,279 ratings · 105,205 reviews · 340 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 400,641 ratings — published 1959 — 458 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.91 avg rating — 300,610 ratings — published 1962 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lottery 4.04 avg rating — 111,257 ratings — published 1948	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, A.M. Homes (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 84,997 ratings — published 1949 — 155 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hangsaman 3.76 avg rating — 12,360 ratings — published 1951 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Tales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,093 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Among the Savages 3.96 avg rating — 9,642 ratings — published 1953 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sundial 3.79 avg rating — 8,319 ratings — published 1958 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird's Nest 3.73 avg rating — 8,148 ratings — published 1954 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Girl 3.53 avg rating — 5,280 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962

25 votes, 12.0%

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951

18 votes, 8.7%

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911

18 votes, 8.7%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 277 pages, 1953

17 votes, 8.2%

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890

17 votes, 8.2%

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 146 pages, 1962

15 votes, 7.2%

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages, 1899

14 votes, 6.7%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages. 1935

14 votes, 6.7%

1984 by George Orwell, 268 pages, 1949

13 votes, 6.3%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages, 1961

12 votes, 5.8%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1960

11 votes, 5.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

10 votes, 4.8%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages, 1844

7 votes, 3.4%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, 212 pages, 1934

7 votes, 3.4%

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 240 pages, 1984

5 votes, 2.4%

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages, 1937

5 votes, 2.4%

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