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John Saul

Born

in Pasadena, California , The United States

February 25, 1942

Website

http://www.johnsaul.com/

Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

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John Saul is an American author best known for his bestselling suspense and horror novels, many of which have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Born in Pasadena and raised in Whittier, California, Saul attended several universities without earning a degree. He spent years honing his craft, writing under pen names before finding mainstream success. His breakout novel, Suffer the Children (1977), launched a prolific career, with over 60 million copies of his books in print. Saul’s work includes Cry for the Strangers, later adapted into a TV movie, and The Blackstone Chronicles series. He is also a playwright, with one-act plays produced in Los Angeles and Seattle. In 2023, he received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievem ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 228,586 ratings · 7,732 reviews · 149 distinct works • Similar authors

	Suffer the Children 3.92 avg rating — 31,508 ratings — published 1977	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
	Darkness 3.95 avg rating — 21,501 ratings — published 1991 — 35 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
	Shadows 3.94 avg rating — 12,463 ratings — published 1992	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
	Creature 3.86 avg rating — 11,622 ratings — published 1989 — 2 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 God Project 3.93 avg rating — 11,412 ratings — published 1982 — 60 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
	Second Child 3.93 avg rating — 8,193 ratings — published 1990 — 2 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
	Comes the Blind Fury 3.98 avg rating — 7,628 ratings — published 1980 — 44 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
	Brain Child 3.85 avg rating — 6,897 ratings — published 1985 — 36 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 Manhattan Hunt Club really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,082 ratings — published 2001 — 44 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
	Nathaniel 3.85 avg rating — 6,206 ratings — published 1984 — 4 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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Blackstone Chronicles (6 books)
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“The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.”
― John Saul

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“If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.”
― John Saul, Perfect Nightmare

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“Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.”
― John Saul

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Voting for the August/September 2012 group read. Voting open until Sunday 8/12.

Broken Harbour/Tana French

40 votes, 15.2%

The Cabinet of Curiosities/Douglas Preston

22 votes, 8.4%

Creole Belle/James Lee Burke

21 votes, 8.0%

Where the Bodies Are Buried/Christopher Brookmyre

16 votes, 6.1%

The End of the Wasp Season/Denise Mina

15 votes, 5.7%

The Last Kind Words/Tom Piccirilli

13 votes, 4.9%

No Time for Goodbye/Linwood Barclay

13 votes, 4.9%

Raven Black/Ann Cleeves

13 votes, 4.9%

Rain Fall/Barry Eisler

12 votes, 4.6%

Mr. Churchill's Secretary/ Susan Elia MacNeal

11 votes, 4.2%

Joe/H.D. Gordon

10 votes, 3.8%

Killer Instinct/Zoë Sharp

10 votes, 3.8%

Drop By Drop: A Thriller / Keith Raffel

8 votes, 3.0%

Marker/Robin Cook

8 votes, 3.0%

Now You See Me/S.J. Bolton

7 votes, 2.7%

Creep/Jennifer Hillier

7 votes, 2.7%

Suffer the Children/John Saul

7 votes, 2.7%

Virginia Creeper/Blaine Pardoe

6 votes, 2.3%

The Twelfth Imam / /Joel C. Rosenberg

5 votes, 1.9%

Death of an Old Git/Andrea Frazer

4 votes, 1.5%

The Survival of Thomas Ford/John A.A. Logan

4 votes, 1.5%

Boston Cream / Howard Shrier

3 votes, 1.1%

The Gigolo Murder/Mehmet Murat Somer

3 votes, 1.1%

And Then She Was Gone/J. Daniel Sawyer

3 votes, 1.1%

The Baptism of Billy Bean/Roger Alan Skipper

2 votes, 0.8%

263 total votes

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