Top 5 King books of all time

[king family fan]

My fav five
It
The Green Mile
Misery
Christine
Bag of Bones

[pjmorin]

FF, isn't it kind of cheating to list "The Dark Tower saga" as a single favorite book?

No...because for DT fantatics, a top 5 list would be impossible, as 2 of the DT novels would have to be left off lol!

[mellie]

my top five books (not going to include short stories, it'll make even harder)
It
the Stand
Insomia
the Regulators
Under the Dome

[91rewoT]

My top 5:
1. The Dark Tower journey (yup, I'm listing them all as one, because we all know it's one story!)
2. The Stand
3. The Talisman
4. Lisey's Story
5. The Green Mile

[pjmorin]

just another quick comment about whether or not lumping all the DT books into 1 is 'cheating' or not....

what about the Green Mile stories? originally was released as 7 separate books...dont think anyone would consider those to be individual books. (heh..of course, they werent released over a course or multiple decades but..... )

[91rewoT]

just another quick comment about whether or not lumping all the DT books into 1 is 'cheating' or not....

what about the Green Mile stories? originally was released as 7 separate books...dont think anyone would consider those to be individual books. (heh..of course, they werent released over a course or multiple decades but..... )

The Green Mile was first published as a serial novel, released one each month, March - August 1996. By definition, I believe it qualifies as a single novel. As far as the Dark Tower books go - I'm counting it as one story, because now matter how you slice it and dice it, no matter how you wrap it up, no matter how you read it, it really is one long fabulous journey! (and seriously, we Tower Junkies can not be made to pick a top 5 favorite list if we can't count DT as one book. We can't do it. Please don't make us do it. Please. please?)

Serial (literature)

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In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous (typically chronological) installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical publication.[1] More generally, serial is applied in library and information science to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion."

[pjmorin]

had completely slipped my mind that it was a serial novel....

[Gabriel J.M.]

Cujo
Pet Sematary
Shinning
Cujo
Pet Sematary
Shining

i read and reread all those book over and over....

[kash33]

i've read 26 as of right now....currently half-way through The Drawing of the Three(possibly top 5book right there)

my top 5 are
1.Bag of Bones-FOREVER my favorite.
2. The Green Mile
3 or 4.Salem's Lot
4 or 3.Needful Things (these two novels could easily both be my number 3, equally great books!)
5.The Stand or It.....so hard to choose.If i absolutely HAD to pick....The Stand.