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John Irving Books
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as john-irving)
avg rating 4.24 — 341,590 ratings — published 1989
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as john-irving)
avg rating 4.11 — 241,248 ratings — published 1978
The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as john-irving)
avg rating 4.17 — 198,325 ratings — published 1985
A Widow for One Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.77 — 65,245 ratings — published 1998
The Hotel New Hampshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.93 — 69,686 ratings — published 1981
Last Night in Twisted River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,440 ratings — published 2009
In One Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.71 — 27,862 ratings — published 2012
Until I Find You (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.67 — 27,821 ratings — published 2005
The Fourth Hand (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.34 — 31,932 ratings — published 2001
A Son of the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.67 — 21,520 ratings — published 1994
The Water-Method Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.39 — 13,429 ratings — published 1972
The 158-Pound Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.27 — 14,435 ratings — published 1974
Setting Free the Bears (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 49 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.32 — 11,272 ratings — published 1968
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.38 — 7,590 ratings — published 1993
Avenue of Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.28 — 14,479 ratings — published 2015
The Last Chairlift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.43 — 10,795 ratings — published 2022
The Imaginary Girlfriend (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.45 — 2,803 ratings — published 1996
My Movie Business: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,421 ratings — published 1999
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as john-irving)
avg rating 4.01 — 865 ratings — published 2003
Queen Esther (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.14 — 6,862 ratings — published 2025
Three Complete Novels: Setting Free the Bears, The Water-Method Man, The 158-Pound Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.87 — 356 ratings — published 1980
Die Pension Grillparzer: Eine Bärengeschichte (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-irving)
avg rating 3.68 — 509 ratings — published 1993
Our Game (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,107 ratings — published 1995
Burma Sahib (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,272 ratings — published 2024
A Saint from Texas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.05 — 906 ratings — published 2020
Last Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,056 ratings — published 2005
Shadow Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,607 ratings — published 2008
Warlight (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.60 — 47,274 ratings — published 2018
The Nix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.08 — 88,516 ratings — published 2016
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,697 ratings — published 2011
The Absolutist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,376 ratings — published 2011
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.34 — 434,572 ratings — published 2009
Peeling the Onion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,189 ratings — published 2006
The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.11 — 412 ratings — published 1999
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.75 — 86,914 ratings — published 2013
The Counterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,638 ratings — published 1986
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,225 ratings — published 2007
The Door in the Floor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.91 — 132 ratings — published 2004
De koning van het kinderspeelgoed: Günter Grass en zijn werk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1996
Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,843 ratings — published 1971
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.90 — 42,838 ratings — published 1962
Bleachers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.55 — 47,396 ratings — published 2003
The Brethren (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.78 — 102,417 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,588 ratings — published 2011
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 3.80 — 887,112 ratings — published 1861
Living the Gimmick (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-irving)
avg rating 4.47 — 47 ratings — published 2000
“Ruth sabía que era afortunada. Se dijo que su próxima novela debería tratar de la buena suerte, de cómo la buena suerte y el infortunio se distribuyen de una manera desigual, si no al nacer, por lo menos a medida que se dan las circunstancias sobre las que no tenemos control alguno, así como los acontecimientos que entran en colisión: la gente que conocemos, el momento en que ese conocimiento tiene lugar y si esas personas importantes podrían conocer casualmente a otras, y el momento en que podría suceder tal cosa.”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.”
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