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- 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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20 books from Stephen King's reading list in On Writing
the appendix in On Writing lists 96 books, alphabetical by author. these are 20 of them
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01
A Death in the Family - James Agee
02
Regeneration - Pat Barker
first of a WWI trilogy, King listed all three. start here
03
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
04
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
05
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
everyone gets assigned this one in school, for the wrong reasons
06
Underworld - Don DeLillo
830 pages, apparently read while King was writing this very book
07
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
08
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
09
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
biggest "wait, this was on King's list?" pick for me. glad it was
11
The Liars' Club - Mary Karr
memoir, and a rough one
12
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
13
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
nonfiction, the 1996 Everest disaster
14
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
15
The Ignored - Bentley Little
the one nobody's heard of on this whole list. horror, went out of print for years, worth tracking down
16
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
17
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
read it before the movie takes over your mental images
18
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
King's appendix actually lists all three Potter books out at the time, this is just one of them
19
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
no lore exam required, just one of the best opening lines around
20
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
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