Top 5 N Top SSC & Top SS

[Balrog21]

I was just wondering everyone's favorites by Mr. King, Top 5 Novels and Short Story Collection, & Favorite Short Story?
Best,
Bal

Below are my tops:

Novels
1. IT
2. The Stand
3. The Shining
4. Pet Sematary
5. Salem's Lot

Short Story Collection
Night Shift

Favorite Short Story
The Mist

[the_last_gunslinger]

Top Five Novels:

1. IT

2. Duma Key

3. Bag of Bones

4. The Dark Half

5. The Shining

Top Short Story Collection:

Night Shift (though I've only read three collections)

Top Short Story:

"Children of the Corn"

[JRLauer]

Novels
1. Rose Madder
2. Eyes of the Dragon
3. The Stand
4. IT
5. Insomnia

Short Story Collection
Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Favorite Short Story
1408

This list is subject to change depending on what day you ask me this question, because there are so many good stories to choose from.

[bopropadop]

Well, as I've said here before, my top 5 SK list has about 12 novels in it... That aside, I'll take a stab at it.

Novels
1. The Stand
2. It
3. The DT Series
4. Salem's Lot
5. Lisey's Story
5a. The Shining
5b. Pet Sematary
5c. Bag of Bones

Short Story Collection
Everything's Eventual

Favorite Short Story
(tie) The Man in the Black Suit
(tie) N.

[Speedygi81]

fav novels? Cujo, The Green Mile, Cell, Lisey's story and Firestarter

fav novella? Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

fav short story? Road Virus heads north

fav non fiction? Danse Macabre

[Trailmix]

Novels
1. I can't choose between the two, so I'm going to put it as a tie between the Dark Tower series and The Stand
2. It
3. Needful Things
4. Duma Key
5. Desperation

It's either a novella collection or a short story, but they're both basically the same.
Different Seasons is my favorite collection, and from the collection my favorite would be a tie between Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and The Body.

[devilboy666]

novels
dark tower 1-7
duma key
insomnia
regulators
the talisman

short stories collection
everythings eventual

fav short story
the langoliers

[devious1]

damn... so hard to pick only 5... but here goes...

1. IT
2. The Stand
3. Dark Tower series (can't choose just one out of the series... that's impossible LOL)
4. Misery
5. The Talisman

favorite short story collection is Skeleton Crew... favorite short story would be... either The Mist or The End Of The Whole Mess.

[Dallas Riley]

Lots of Duma Key Love i see.

[Agincourt Concierge]

Tough one....

1. The Talisman
2. The Dark Tower Series
3. Insomnia
4. It
5. Dolores Claiborne

Favorite Short Story Collection
Nightshift

Favorite Short Story
1. Gray Matter
2. Head Down
3. The Long Walk
4. The Mist

[shaniffer]

Novels:
1. The Stand
2. It
3. Pet Sematary
4. The Talisman
5. Dreamcatcher

Short Story Collection:
Night Shift

Favorite Short Story:
The Mist

[mrbeer]

Top Novels:
1. IT
2. The Stand
3. Bag of Bones
4. Waste Lands
5. From a Buick 8

Short Story Collection:
1. Night Shift (Although Just After Sunset was really good)

Favorite Short Story
The Body even though thats more of a novella, short story wise, I guess I'd say N. Although tomorrow I'll probobly think of another one and be like "Doh! Why didn't I pick that one?"

[blunthead]

Top 5 Novels (so far...!)...
1. Desperation
2. Bag of Bones
3. Misery
4. Duma Key
5. Insomnia

Favorite Short Story Collection...
Impossible for me to choose

Favorite short story...
Tie: Everything's Eventual, The End of the Whole Mess, The Jaunt, Umney's Last Case, 1408, The Reaper's Image

[ConstantSam]

Novels:
It
Tommyknockers
Dolores Claiborne
Bag of Bones
Pet Sematary

SSC:
Different Seasons (I know...novellas, not shorts)

SS:
Ayana

[davidbo32]

1: The Stand
2: The Shining
3: The Dead Zone
4: The Dark Half
5: The Tommyknockers
6: 'Salem's Lot

Best short story collection: Everything's eventual

Best short story: Apt pupil

[OhmyGod!]

1. Dolores Claiborne
2. Cujo
3. Lisey's story
4. IT
5. Deadzone

Best short story collection: 4 seasons

Best short story: The Body

But maybe tomorrow I would chose differently...

[RandomMan]

1. DT (1.Gunslinger,2. The Dark Tower,3. Wizard and Glass,4. The Drawing of the Three,5. Wolves of the Calla,6. The Waste Lands,7. Song of Susannah)
2. Green Mile
3. Insomnia
4. Duma Key
5. The Dark Half

Best short story collection: Hearts In Atlantis

Best short story: Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption

[Cody44]

1) The Stand
2) The Waste Lands (Although It looks like Wizard & Glass may take its place)
3) Duma Key
4) Salem's Lot
5) The Gunslinger

Short Story:
1408, The Road Virus Heads North, N. & Shawshank Redemption

Favorite SS Collection:
Different Seasons. :grinning:

[Jax]

Novels
1.) Insomnia
2.) Lisey's Story
3.) The Talisman
4.) Black House
5.) Duma Key

Story Collection
Everything's Eventual

Short Story
The Man In The Black Suit or The Boogeyman (These 2 are both equal faves of mine)

[Queen Judia]

Top 5 Novels:

-Misery
-Cujo
-Insomnia
-The Dark Half
-Christine

Top SSC:

-Skeleton Crew
-Everything's Eventual
-Different Seasons

Top Short Story:

-Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
-Autopsy Room 4

[ComeUntoSweetDeath]

Top 5 Novels

1 The Stand
2 The Shining
3 Dark Tower Series
4 Rose Madder
5 the Talisman

Short Story Collection
Everything's Eventual

Favorite Short Story
Road Virus Heads North

[MartinEden]

Novels:

Needful Things
The Stand
It
'Salem's Lot
The Talisman


Collection:
SKELETON CREW

Short Story:
"The Road Virus Heads North" (from EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL, I know, but as far as being my favorite overall collection, it is SC)

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Of course, this is based on what I have read and what King has published to this point.