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Stephen King, Page 1 : Individual Novels |
Below you will find listings for individual King novels stocked by Amazon.com. You will notice that most titles come in more than one edition, so I have tried to give you as much information as possible to help you make your selection. Note: A book graphic next to a title indicates that I personally have read and enjoyed this book. In fact, it may very well be in my own library.
You may scroll down the page to view all the options, or use the quick links below to jump straight to a certain title.
 Carrie : the first King novel to really attract attention from the mainstream. Carrie is the extremely repressed daughter of a woman who obviously escaped from some kind of religious cult. When the other teens at school begin to tease her, Carrie discovers a hidden talent for psychokinesis and proceeds to wreak havoc. |
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 Christine : Teenage nerd Arnie buys a used car which turns out to be possessed--and vicious. |
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 Cujo : a rabid dog traps a young mother and her son in a swelteringly hot car in the middle of summer. |
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| Cycle of the Werewolf : King takes us through a year in a town plagued by werewolf attacks, each of which conveniently falls on a holiday (Valentine's Day, Halloween, etc.). Lightweight but amusing, and the illustrations are terrific. |
| Danse Macabre : Nonfiction. King shows how smart he really is, musing on such topics as what makes us really afraid and why kids handle fear better than adults. Plenty of interesting anecdotes to lighten the tone. |
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| The Dark Half : A writer who "kills off" his Richard-Bachman-like alter ego finds that the alter ego doesn't want to go quietly. |
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| The Dead Zone : One of King's most thoughtful novels. Ordinary guy Johnny Smith wakes up from a four-year coma with the ability to see the future. The problem is getting people to take him seriously when lives are at stake. |
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| Desperation: The best thing King has written since Misery. This one takes place in a deserted mining town way out West, where a psychotic sheriff holds stranded motorists hostage--at least, that's the way it starts out. Then it get interesting.... |
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 Dolores Claiborne : Mysterious, crabby old woman may or may not be responsible for murders 40 years apart. |
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| The Eyes of the Dragon : a fairy tale King originally wrote for his daughter Naomi Rachael--look for her cameo in this story of a young prince imprisoned in a tower. |
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| Firestarter : Little Charlie can start fires with her mind; the problem is, she can't stop them. |
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| Gerald's Game : After Gerald dies in the middle of a sex game, his wife finds herself handcuffed to the bed with no way to escape. |
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| Insomnia : Creepy bald elves with shears are killing people in Derry, Maine, and the only one who can see them is a senior citizen who's been without sleep for so long, he thinks he's hallucinating. |
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| It : A young band of outcasts join together to destroy a child-eating monster; then, thirty years later, they find out they failed and have to do it all over again. A bit of trivia for you: if you pay close attention, you'll find allusions to every single book King had written up to this point, including Thinner, which he wrote as Richard Bachman. |
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| Maximum Overdrive : Cars, trucks, and other transportation vehicles come to life and try to kill their owners. Originally a short story called "Trucks." |
| Misery : Twice as frightening as he movie--trust me. A romance author has a wreck and is rescued by his "number one fan." The problem is, she's a psycho, and he's just killed off her favorite heroine. Just wait until you find out about the "special birthday candle." |
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| Needful Things : demonic curio shop owner sells people what they think they need most--but at a price. |
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| Pet Semetary : An ancient Indian burial ground has the power to bring dead pets back to life. But what happens when a dead person is buried there? |
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| The Regulators : This is actually a "Richard Bachman" book, but I'm putting the information here as well as on page 2 because this book is a companion piece to Desperation. It even uses many of the the same situations and characters (or, at least, character names) from the other book, but is much, much weirder. Murderous ghosts in cartoon vans terrorize an Ohio neighborhood. |
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| Rose Madder : After fourteen years in an abusive marriage, Rose Daniels flees for her life--with her crazy-cop husband right behind. |
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| The Running Man : Another former "Bachman book." A wrongly convicted criminal has the chance to run for his life in a bizarre game show of the future--nothing at all like the cheesy Schwarzeneggar movie. |
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| Salem's Lot : This vampire novel has a very classical feel. Great writing; you really care about the characters. One of King's classics. |
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| The Shawshank Redemption : Originally one of the novellas from Different Seasons. Tells the story of a brilliant, unjustly convicted (at least, that's what he says) inmate at Shawshank Penetentiary--the persecutions he faces and the struggle to keep his hope. Tragic and funny and very moving. |
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| The Shining : Absolutely King's best. I wouldn't be surprised if 100 years from now, some college classes are studying it as literature. Forget the Nicholson movie, mostly forget the TV miniseries, and just read this book for the pure horror of it. Nothing else comes close. |
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| The Stand : Second only to The Shining among King's best works. A post-apocalyptic showdown between the forces of good and evil. Memorable heroes and heroines, and one hugely creepy villain. |
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| The Talisman : A fascinating collaboration between King and fellow horror author Peter Straub. A young boy travels cross-country in an alternate reality, doing battle with monsters both human and inhuman--all in a desperate attempt to save his mother's life. |
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| Thinner : Another "Bachman book"--although sometimes people forget that, so I've put it here, as well. Cursed by a leprous gypsy, an obese man starts losing weight...and losing....and losing. |
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| The Tommyknockers : When a woman uncovers a giant spaceship buried on her property, she and the rest of the townsfolk start metamorphosing into evil aliens. Warning: don't get too attached to the characters in this one; most of them don't make it out alive. |
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