Stephen King’s Favorite Books

Stephen King knows a lot about writing. These are some of his favorite novels (as published in his book On Writing), all of which he recommends for reading:

  • Abrahams, Peter: A Perfect Crime
  • Abrahams, Peter: Lights Out
  • Abrahams, Peter: End of Story
  • Abrahams, Peter: Pressure Drop
  • Abrahams, Peter: Revolution #9
  • Abrahams, Peter: The Tutor
  • Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger
  • Agee, James: A Death in the Family
  • Atkinson, Kate: One Good Turn
  • Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake /인간종말 레포트
  • Bakis, Kirsten: Lives of the Monster Dogs
  • Barker, Pat: Regeneration
  • Barker, Pat: The Eye in the Door
  • Barker, Pat: The Ghost Road
  • Bausch, Richard: In the Night Season
  • Berlinski, Mischa: Fieldwork
  • Black, Benjamin {pseudo}: Christine Falls
  • Blauner, Peter: The Intruder
  • Blauner, Peter: The Last Good Day
  • Bolaño, Roberto: 2666
  • Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky
  • Boyle, T. Coraghessan: The Tortilla Curtain
  • Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods
  • Buckley, Christopher: Thank You for Smoking
  • Carr, David: The Night of the Gun
  • Carver, Raymond: Where I’m Calling From
  • Casey, John: Spartina
  • Chabon, Michael: Werewolves in Their Youth
  • Chabon, Michael: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
  • Child, Lee: The Jack Reacher novels, starting with Killing Floor
  • Chorlton, Windsor: Latitude Zero
  • Connelly, Michael: The Poet
  • Connelly, Michael: The Narrows
  • Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  • Constantine, K. C.: Family Values
  • Costello, Mark: Big If
  • Cunningham, Michael: The Hours
  • Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
  • DeLillo, Don: Underworld
  • DeMille, Nelson: Cathedral
  • DeMille, Nelson: The Gold Coast
  • Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
  • Dobyns, Stephen: Common Carnage
  • Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
  • Dooling, Richard: White Man’s Grave
  • Downing, David: Zoo Nation
  • Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors
  • Dubus, Andre: The Garden of Last Days
  • Elkin, Stanley: The Dick Gibson Show
  • Enger, Leif: Peace Like a River
  • Exley, Frederick: A Fan’s Notes
  • Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
  • Ferris, Joshua: Then We Came to an End
  • Franzen, Jonathan: Strong Motion
  • Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections
  • Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
  • Garland, Alex: The Beach
  • Gardiner, Meg: Crosscut
  • Gardiner, Meg: The Dirty Secrets Club
  • Gay, William: The Long Home
  • George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind
  • Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity
  • Goddard, Robert: Painting the Darkness
  • Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  • Gray, Muriel: Furnace 
  • Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire)
  • Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana
  • Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants
  • Halberstam, David: The Fifties
  • Hall, Steven: The Raw Shark Texts
  • Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters
  • Harris, Thomas: Hannibal
  • Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
  • Helprin, Mark: A Soldier of the Great War
  • Hoeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  • Hunter, Stephen: Dirty White Boys
  • Huston, Charlie: The Hank Thompson Trilogy
  • Ignatius, David: A Firing Offense
  • Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
  • Johnson, Denis: Tree of Smoke
  • Joyce, Graham: The Tooth Fairy
  • Judd, Alan: The Devil’s Own Work
  • Kahn, Roger: Good Enough to Dream
  • Karr, Mary: The Liars’ Club
  • Keillor, Garrison (ed.): Good Poems
  • Ketchum, Jack: Right to Life
  • Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
  • King, Tabitha: Survivor
  • King, Tabitha: The Sky in the Water
  • Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
  • Klosterman, Chuck: Fargo Rock City
  • Krakauer, John: Into Thin Air
  • Larsson, Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Le Carré, John: Absolute Friends
  • Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Lefkowitz, Bernard: Our Guys
  • Lehane, Dennis: The Given Day
  • Leonard, Elmore: Up in Honey’s Room
  • Lethem, Jonathan: The Fortress of Solitude 
  • Lippman, Laura: What the Dead Know
  • Little, Bentley: Dispatch
  • Little, Bentley: The Ignored
  • Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
  • Malamud, Bernard: The Fixer
  • Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
  • Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence
  • McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain
  • McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing
  • McCarthy, Cormac: No Country for Old Men
  • McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
  • McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy
  • McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores
  • McEwan, Ian: Atonement
  • McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love
  • McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden
  • McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man’s Walk
  • McMurtry, Larry, and Diana Ossana: Zeke and Ned
  • Meek, James: The People’s Act of Love
  • Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Niffenegger, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry
  • Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys
  • Oates, Joyce Carol: Zombie
  • O’Brian, Patrick: The Aubrey/Maturin Novels
  • O’Brien, Tim: In the Lake of the Woods
  • O’Nan, Stewart: The Good Wife
  • O’Nan, Stewart: The Speed Queen
  • Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
  • Patterson, Richard North: No Safe Place
  • Pelecanos, George: Hard Revolution
  • Pelecanos, George: The Turnaround
  • Perrotta, Tom: The Abstinence Teacher
  • Picoult, Jodi: Nineteen Minutes
  • Pierre, DBC: Vernon God Little
  • Price, Richard: Freedomland
  • Proulx, Annie: Fine Just the Way It Is
  • Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
  • Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
  • Quindlen, Anna: One True Thing
  • Rendell, Ruth: A Sight for Sore Eyes
  • Robinson, Frank M.: Waiting
  • Robotham, Michael: Shatter
  • Roth, Philip: The Plot Against America
  • Rowling, J. K.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  • Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
  • Russo, Richard: Bridge of Sighs
  • Russo, Richard: Empire Falls
  • Russo, Richard: Mohawk
  • Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road
  • Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
  • Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions
  • Simmons, Dan: Drood
  • Simmons, Dan: The Terror
  • Sittenfeld, Curtis: American Wife
  • Slotkin, Richard: The Crater
  • Smith, Dinitia: The Illusionist
  • Smith, Tom Rob: Child 44
  • Snyder, Scott: Voodoo Heart
  • Spencer, Scott: Men in Black
  • Stegner, Wallace: Joe Hill
  • Stephenson, Neal: Quicksilver 
  • Tartt, Donna: The Little Friend
  • Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
  • Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
  • Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus
  • Wambaugh, Joseph: Hollywood Station
  • Warren, Robert Penn: All the King’s Men
  • Waters, Sarah: The Little Stranger
  • Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
  • Westlake, Donald E.: The Ax
  • Winegardner, Mark: The Godfather Returns
  • Wroblewski, David: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  • Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road


Which ones do you like?


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