Best Stephen King Books || Reviews & Recommendations

Hey Booktube, let's talk about Stephen King! Starting with the unofficial top 10 most popular/best books by him then let's see which books I also think are his best... then feel free the give me recommendations as I still have some of his books on my shelf (like On Writing) that I'll probably try too!

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Apt Pupil by Stephen King
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

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[BookswithEmilyFox]

Posting this video as I’m doing my colonoscopy prep is just… 💅✨

[christinedugas]

"It was a sad day to be literate." 😆🤣

[bookmarcreads]

Yeah, definitely please make this into a series with other authors. 👍🏽📚

[RossHomsonTube]

11.22.63 is fantastic. You should definitely give it a read

[Lizi.Bits.]

"Eyes of the Dragon" is the only Stephen King book I kept once I'd read it. It's High Fantasy and was written because his daughter didn't want to read any of his gruesome books. It does still have plenty of spooky horror going on, an excellent villain, and I really enjoyed the family dynamics. Only about 400 pages and I LOVE the ending.

[emryborge]

The ending of 11/22/63 was great, because it was actually his son who came up with it and not Stephen King😂

[kay]

I'm reading Misery right now! I'm about halfway through and really enjoy it so far.

[zachreads]

As someone who's read every SK book, here's my opinions.
-The Shining... ya Jack isn't the good guy, Wendy Danny and Mr Hallerand are.
-IT... i like it but ignore the ending bc even if it wasn't gross it's still dumb.
-The Stand... read it 20 years and thought it was fine but sont remember much tbh.
-Misery... I think it's worth it, but it has so.e things that will bother you. You did hav a french copy lol.
-Carrie... good but has issues, keep in mind it's his first book and it's 51 years old.
-Pet Sematary... imo his best!
-11-22-63... I thought it was fine but tedious and mostly boring (unpopular opinion).
-The Gunslinger... my hottest take DARK TOWER SUCKS!, and being told to try Dark Tower first was in my opinion the worst possible advice you could have gotten.
-Salems Lot... it's a good one but not quite a personal fav.
-the Green mile... very good! It's like Shawshank where the book and movie are very good.

Apt pupil, Sleeping Beauties, Elevation, the Institute, are the ones that I remember that you've read and I didn't like that weren't mentioned above.

A lot of ppl love it but imo Under the Dome is his worst ending😊

[rhondasruminationsonreading]

The only Stephen King I've ever read was "On Writing" because I'm not a big horror reader, but I am a writer lol. It was really good (although it's been over 10 years since I read it).

[tiffanythomas]

Loved The Green Mile. Book so much better than movie.

[christinemartin]

I agree with pretty much everything. IT was amazing except for "that" seen. They dealt with it much better in the film.. The end was ridiculous. I loved the Bill Hodges trilogy, especially the last book. I was going to recommend it. Holly is one of my favorite characters of any writer. The Outsider is probably my favorite of all his books. It is more of an X-Files story. Loved it, and the HBO show. Holly is in it. I also remember loving The Langoliers. It is one of the stories in Four Past Midnight. Later was also really good. It is shorter. I got the audio from Libby. Great way to get it. Fun and short.

[spcyfic]

I haven’t read a lot of King’s books yet, but Pet Sematary is my very favorite. I ADORED it, one of my favorite books ever and also a book that impacted me as a reader. Great depiction of grief. I also really enjoyed The Shinning : I get why it would be triggering or too much for some people (some parts were definitely hard to read) but I loved the way he writes about the main character being the horrific element. Next favorite has to be Salem’s lot. So good, so creepy, small town vibes.
I plan on reading The Stand but I’m not really into post-apocalyptic 😬 Misery will be my next read (probably).

[beLIEver]

I really enjoyed Misery and The Green Mile. I thought The Green Mile especially paired so well with the movie which I saw first and love so much (despite the ugly crying that happens every time I watch it). Great video!

[maggiedeleon]

Misery is so so good! It packs so much for its size and the limited location and cast of characters it’s really what amazed me! I was entertained the whole time!

[emryborge]

Misery is absolutely worth it. I read it when I was like 14 and I still vividly remember so many scenes from it

[cristinasolca]

Misery is great ! Both book and movie. And he does not mess the ending on this one. I would not recommend "The outsider" because of the boring ending. But I did enjoy 11.22.63 a lot. I read King mostly because, of the way he depicts human emotion. From my perspective he has a very good understanding of human nature. Keep up the good work!

[sumedhareads]

omg, i might be the only one who has never read him but I really want to start reading him. thanks for recs<3

[pepperwings]

I agree, I started The Shining, and I realized that I did *not* want to spend any more time inside his head, watching the movie was enough for me (for that story).

[AlexOnEarth]

The WHAT in the Was not prepared for you to say that lol

[tillmanntornado]

Thanks for the reviews! I also recommend „Duma Key“. I liked it very much. I loved the description of how the main character discovered his art-painting skills and how the paintings relate to the mystery of Duma Key. And the ending had some magical vibe to it and reminded me of movies from Hayao Miyazaki (a little bit). It is pretty long though and most of the time it’s more atmosphere and less plot. But no critical scenes like you mentioned from „IT“ or „Shining“, to my recollection at least. I like the author despite of these, but I could very much not have them in his books. I‘m with you there.