Stephen Kings personal favorite books (as of 1980)

Discover Stephen King's personal favorite books as of 1980! Explore the acclaimed author's top picks and literary influences in this curated list of must-read titles.

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Watership Down

by Richard Adams

WINNER of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Now a Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy …
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Concrete Island

 

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A …
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

by Jack Finney

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost …
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Time and Again

by Jack Finney

Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to …
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies

by Harold Bloom

In this adventure story about a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island, William Golding explores the dark side of humanity and the savagery …
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The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
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The Lathe Of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A classic science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one …
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The Magic Barrel

by Bernard Malamud

A collection of thirteen short fiction stories, set in New York and Italy, by twentieth-century American author Bernard Malamud.
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I Am Legend

 

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

by Flannery O'Connor

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by Thomas Pynchon

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much …
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Ghost Story

by Peter Straub

Horror. Early novel about four men who inadvertently cause the death of a young woman in the 1920s.
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The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

Explores the timeless tale of Earth's survival against alien forces (man-eating plants) and blinding meteor showers.