Stephen King’s Favorite Books

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?