View Full Version : What are Stephen King's best books?
mitchell179
09-12-2009, 02:29 PM
I'm looking for other people's opinions on what five books you would classify as Stephen King's best books. My five can be seen here.....................
http://bookstove.com/classics/stephen-kings-best-five-books
wufongtan.
09-17-2009, 07:46 PM
saloms lot
the stand
needful things
Pet Sematary
tommy knockers.
I want to get the mist. is it a novel? i don't know i hope so.
Geddy
09-18-2009, 05:15 AM
1. Rage
2. Salem's Lot
3. The Stand
4. It
5. The Shining
urgeok2
09-18-2009, 05:47 AM
salems lot is the 5 best stephen king books
Doc Faustus
09-18-2009, 07:12 AM
1. Rage
2. Salem's Lot
3. The Stand
4. It
5. The Shining
This, but I would reverse 1 and 4.
StillAlive1364
09-19-2009, 12:39 PM
These are mine:
1. IT
2. The Stand
3. The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1 - the only one I have read so far)
4. Firestarter
5. Misery
videorat
10-19-2009, 01:30 AM
1 - The Stand
2 - The Shining
3 - The Dark Tower (series)
4 - Salem's Lot
5 - It
(a bit of a preference for King's early work here -- when it was more horror than literary)
videorat
10-19-2009, 01:32 AM
The Mist is a 1980 novella - you can find it in his collection Skeleton Crew
rockyx
10-28-2009, 09:16 AM
I've only read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Cujo and Carrie. Currently working my way through Pet Sematary.
tbrookside
10-29-2009, 05:00 AM
I would say:
1. The Stand
2. Needful Things
3. Pet Sematary
4. Misery
5. It's not horror, but under a different pen name King wrote a novella that became The Shawshank Redemption, which is just as perfect a gem in novella form as in film.
edited to fix tags
PD Allen
10-29-2009, 11:15 AM
It
The Stand
Salem's Lot
The Dark Tower series
The Shining
Desperation
RavisHarnell
11-21-2009, 12:23 PM
I'm looking for other people's opinions on what five books you would classify as Stephen King's best books. My five can be seen here.....................
http://bookstove.com/classics/stephen-kings-best-five-books
The Talisman
The Shining
Salem's Lot
The Gunslinger Series
Dance Macabre (a non-fiction book about horror lit and movies and their place in the culture, essential reading)
Doc Faustus
11-23-2009, 11:28 PM
Yeah, Danse Macabre is really good. Did I mention On Writing several pages ago and forget I ever posted on this thread? If I didn't mention it, On Writing is one of the best books on the topic, if I did, sorry.