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Jack London

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

January 12, 1876

Died

November 22, 1916

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Adventure, Classics

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Haeckel, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Darwin, Ru ...more

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John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,047,990 ratings · 47,071 reviews · 7,515 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.91 avg rating — 468,374 ratings — published 1903 — 7521 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
	White Fang 4.03 avg rating — 205,692 ratings — published 1906 — 518 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 Call of the Wild / White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 77,881 ratings — published 1903 — 11 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
	Martin Eden 4.48 avg rating — 53,657 ratings — published 1909 — 59 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 Sea Wolf 4.06 avg rating — 33,227 ratings — published 1904 — 3801 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
	To Build a Fire 3.99 avg rating — 26,426 ratings — published 1902 — 185 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 Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London, Earle Labor (Editor), Robert C. Leitz III (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 22,749 ratings — published 1903 — 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
	The Scarlet Plague 3.75 avg rating — 14,180 ratings — published 1912 — 1784 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 Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator) 3.77 avg rating — 12,280 ratings — published 1908 — 184 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 Star Rover 4.18 avg rating — 10,654 ratings — published 1914 — 1081 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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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 320 pgs, 1997

56 votes, 21.0%

White Fang by Jack London, 252 pages, 1906

43 votes, 16.1%

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pgs, 1951

33 votes, 12.4%

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pgs, 1995

32 votes, 12.0%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pgs, 1913

25 votes, 9.4%

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, 483 pgs, 1993

16 votes, 6.0%

Queer by William S. Burroughs, 160 pgs, 1985

14 votes, 5.2%

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, 176 pgs, 1960

13 votes, 4.9%

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor, 269 pgs, 1965

11 votes, 4.1%

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 368 pgs, 1915

10 votes, 3.7%

The Vagabond by Colette, 252 pgs, 1910

10 votes, 3.7%

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pgs, 1966

4 votes, 1.5%

267 total votes

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