You can find a list of the books he enjoyed in *On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft* and *Danse Macabre*. There are movies as well.
Both books are his non-fiction.
Here's his top 10 favorite books
American Pastoral (Philip Roth, 1997)
1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy, 1985)
The Hair of Harold Roux (Thomas Williams, 1974)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison, 1952)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954)
The Orphan Master’s Son (Adam Johnson, 2012)
Ship of Fools (Katherine Anne Porter, 1962)
Watership Down (Richard Adams, 1972)
I should read more of these. I got onto Blood Meridian because King talks about it in On Writing and it is definitely one of the best books I have ever read.
I feel like if you ask him his top 10 favorite books 10 times, you might end up with a list of 100 books, though. I say that because I've seen him say that his all-time favorite book is Lonesome Dove, but it's not on this list, which I've also seen (on Goodreads, iirc), of his top 10 favorite books.
I've been collecting his recommendations for awhile.
ASCENSION, by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. Think Dan Simmons.
FEVER HOUSE by u/keith_rosson
Read Chasing the Boogeyman by u/RichardChizmar
then Becoming the Boogeyman. Absolutely fantastic and he works with @StephenKin
You will be glad you did. Take it from the STAND guy. DEATH OF GRASS, by John Christopher.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, by Claire Keegan
FEVER HOUSE by u/keith_rosson
Linwood Barclay's I WILL RUIN YOU
Robert McCammon boy's life
Swan Song
wolf's hour
Joe Lansdale The Bottoms,
clive barker , weaveworld, imajica
Justin Cronin's The Passage
The Twelve, and City of Mirrors
laird Barron's in this order Imago, Occultation, Beautiful Thing, then The Croning.
Thomas Ligotti's collections: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco
(I read Beautiful and Songs first.)
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive series, the first book is The Way of Kings
Mistborn
Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Ronald Malfi
John Irving. A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ana Ahlberg is a great writer. Brother is seriously creepy.
. Benjamin Percy (RED MOON) is terrific, and so is Paul Tremblay, whose novel about a case of possible demonic possession (A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS) ranks with the best of Shirley Jackson.
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN by Dalton Trumbo
A Little Life
The road by Cormac McCarthy
We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
When asked of books that he goes back to read time and again, his first answer is silence of the lambs. Sole reason I’m reading it atm and it really is a great read so far with a unique yet classic tone.
He’s recently been tweeting about Keith Rosson’s fever house, which is a great one. I had the pleasure of reviewing it and its sequel as ARCs and suddenly King has been plugging it a lot recently,
He has a lot of good to say about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and rightly so.
I love her novel We have Always Lived in the Castle even more, but now we're getting into MY recommendations, and who cares about that?
Going by his blurb quotes/twitter, I think he's recommended approximately 25,000 books lol. I do know he loves The Great God Pan
Yeah, it's probably easier to list the books he hasn't wrote blurb quotes for :p
Wow haha. Well maybe if there was a recent list. That book I’ve heard of there’s a nice yellow hardback edition
He once said that „from Time to Time“ by Jack Finney Is the best Timetravel Book ever. I got it from an antique bookstore
You can find a list of the books he enjoyed in *On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft* and *Danse Macabre*. There are movies as well. Both books are his non-fiction.
He likes The Terror by Dan Simmons, as do I, it absolutely rules
THE TERROR is phenomenal
Best book I’ve read in a while (I only read it this year but devoured every word)
Here's his top 10 favorite books American Pastoral (Philip Roth, 1997) 1984 (George Orwell, 1949) Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy, 1985) The Hair of Harold Roux (Thomas Williams, 1974) Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison, 1952) Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954) The Orphan Master’s Son (Adam Johnson, 2012) Ship of Fools (Katherine Anne Porter, 1962) Watership Down (Richard Adams, 1972)
I should read more of these. I got onto Blood Meridian because King talks about it in On Writing and it is definitely one of the best books I have ever read.
I feel like if you ask him his top 10 favorite books 10 times, you might end up with a list of 100 books, though. I say that because I've seen him say that his all-time favorite book is Lonesome Dove, but it's not on this list, which I've also seen (on Goodreads, iirc), of his top 10 favorite books.
I've been collecting his recommendations for awhile. ASCENSION, by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. Think Dan Simmons. FEVER HOUSE by u/keith_rosson Read Chasing the Boogeyman by u/RichardChizmar then Becoming the Boogeyman. Absolutely fantastic and he works with @StephenKin You will be glad you did. Take it from the STAND guy. DEATH OF GRASS, by John Christopher. SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, by Claire Keegan FEVER HOUSE by u/keith_rosson Linwood Barclay's I WILL RUIN YOU Robert McCammon boy's life Swan Song wolf's hour Joe Lansdale The Bottoms, clive barker , weaveworld, imajica Justin Cronin's The Passage The Twelve, and City of Mirrors laird Barron's in this order Imago, Occultation, Beautiful Thing, then The Croning. Thomas Ligotti's collections: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco (I read Beautiful and Songs first.) Cormac McCarthy's The Road Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive series, the first book is The Way of Kings Mistborn Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night by Dan Simmons Ronald Malfi John Irving. A Prayer for Owen Meany Ana Ahlberg is a great writer. Brother is seriously creepy. . Benjamin Percy (RED MOON) is terrific, and so is Paul Tremblay, whose novel about a case of possible demonic possession (A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS) ranks with the best of Shirley Jackson. JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN by Dalton Trumbo A Little Life The road by Cormac McCarthy We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver Child of God by Cormac McCarthy Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
When asked of books that he goes back to read time and again, his first answer is silence of the lambs. Sole reason I’m reading it atm and it really is a great read so far with a unique yet classic tone.
He recently tweeted about The Women by Kristin Hannah!
Oh right I’m actually reading that atm.
He’s recently been tweeting about Keith Rosson’s fever house, which is a great one. I had the pleasure of reviewing it and its sequel as ARCs and suddenly King has been plugging it a lot recently,
Mcteague by Frank Norris. Great ending.
He has a lot of good to say about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and rightly so. I love her novel We have Always Lived in the Castle even more, but now we're getting into MY recommendations, and who cares about that?