What are Stephen King's best books?
 

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/stephe...est-five-books

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.

1. Rage
2. Salem's Lot
3. The Stand
4. It
5. The Shining

salems lot is the 5 best stephen king books

This, but I would reverse 1 and 4.

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

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)

The Mist is a 1980 novella - you can find it in his collection Skeleton Crew

I've only read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Cujo and Carrie. Currently working my way through Pet Sematary.

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

It
The Stand
Salem's Lot
The Dark Tower series
The Shining
Desperation

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)

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.