Stephen King's 10 Favorite Books

Stephen King was kind enough to provide his 10 favorite books to the author's of The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.

Funny... not a single macabre book on the list. (Or would you consider "The Lord of the Flies" macabre?)

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/1_The_Golden_Argosy_A_Collection_of_the_Most_Celebrated_Short_Stories_in_the_English_Language');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/B000JJO8TQ'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#1: The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language

edited by Van H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/2_The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553210793'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/2_The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553210793'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Amazon readers say:

"Sweet madness woven around a river of beauty and imagination."
"Summer reading triumph."
"Racist literature? No way!"
"A defining novel of America."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/3_The_Satanic_Verses');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812976711'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/3_The_Satanic_Verses');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812976711'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#3: The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

Amazon readers say:

"Rushdie is the Eastern Hemisphere's best kept secret."
"A challenging but powerful (and even entertaining) novel."
"Excellence in poetic-prose."
"Pure magic."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/4_The_Raj_Quartet_The_Jewel_in_the_Crownthe_Day_of_the_Scorpionthe_Towers_of_Silencea_Division_of_the_Spoils');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0688042120'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#4: The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown/the Day of the Scorpion/the Towers of Silence/a Division of the Spoils

by Paul Scott

Amazon readers say:

"The "War and Peace" of the twilight days of the British Raj."
"An unquestionable masterpiece."
"Masterpiece literature."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/5_Light_in_August');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679732268'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/5_Light_in_August');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679732268'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#5: Light in August

by William Faulkner

Amazon readers say:

"Faulkner's ambitious Southern epic, with its ambiguous portrait of a monstrous martyr."
"Engaging yet profound."
"Faulkner's genius comes full-circle..."
"Another Faulkner classic."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/6_McTeague');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451528913'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/6_McTeague');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451528913'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#6: McTeague

by Frank Norris

Amazon readers say:

"Realism; not once, not twice, but thrice over!!"
"McTeague is literary naturalism in the purist form."
"McTeague and his neighbors are America's bottom feeders."
"Remorseless, brutal, utterly necessary."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/7_Lord_of_the_Flies');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140283331'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#7: Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Amazon readers say:

"What is humankind's TRUE nature?"
"Golding's chilling commentary on human nature."
"A pithy account of society."
"Boys gone wild."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/8_Bleak_House');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0141439726'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#8: Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Amazon readers say:

"Dickens' best book, should be required reading for lawyers."
"Many bleak houses and a few cheerful firesides."
"Adventure, comedy, and tragedy."
"Nothing bleak about this..."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/9_Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679728759'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/9_Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679728759'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#9: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

Amazon readers say:

"One of the modern masterpieces of fiction."
"Jaw-droppingly good fiction, in my top 5!"
"Inferno of the American West."
"A great take on a land less traveled."

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/10_1984');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451524934'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Stephen_Kings_10_Favorite_Books/10_1984');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451524934'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">#10: 1984

by George Orwell

Amazon readers say:

"Entertaining but ominous political satire."
"Some classics are overrated. This is not one of them."
"Startling view of a future world."
"A must read for your children if you've already read it."

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