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Stephen King's Non-Horror Books
Stephen King books that wont scare the crap out of me because 1. I already have a sleeping disorder and 2. I cant afford to keep the lights on every night for the rest of my life.
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11/22/63
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4.35 avg rating — 621,855 ratings
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The Green Mile
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4.49 avg rating — 354,091 ratings
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Different Seasons
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4.36 avg rating — 218,088 ratings
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Billy Summers
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4.18 avg rating — 185,756 ratings
score: 796,
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Under the Dome
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3.93 avg rating — 319,297 ratings
score: 788,
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The Running Man
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3.90 avg rating — 152,410 ratings
score: 784,
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The Dead Zone
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3.97 avg rating — 241,146 ratings
score: 770,
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 311,994 ratings
score: 696,
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Dolores Claiborne
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 167,159 ratings
score: 687,
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Firestarter
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3.92 avg rating — 243,260 ratings
score: 680,
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Fairy Tale
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4.09 avg rating — 324,929 ratings
score: 597,
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The Body
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4.30 avg rating — 45,086 ratings
score: 596,
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The Long Walk
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
4.05 avg rating — 233,196 ratings
score: 479,
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The Institute
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4.20 avg rating — 326,834 ratings
score: 394,
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 653,228 ratings
score: 389,
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Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 364,646 ratings
score: 387,
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 818,952 ratings
score: 385,
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Joyland
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3.93 avg rating — 174,967 ratings
score: 299,
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The Eyes of the Dragon
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3.95 avg rating — 141,530 ratings
score: 295,
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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4.49 avg rating — 58,540 ratings
score: 289,
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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 284,535 ratings
score: 289,
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The Outsider
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4.01 avg rating — 365,242 ratings
score: 285,
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The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 139,114 ratings
score: 284,
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The Colorado Kid
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3.38 avg rating — 58,401 ratings
score: 197,
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Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
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4.07 avg rating — 181,592 ratings
score: 195,
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the shawshank redemption
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4.49 avg rating — 58,540 ratings
score: 100,
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Holly (Holly Gibney #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 174,971 ratings
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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 242,654 ratings
score: 99,
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The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
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4.29 avg rating — 186,372 ratings
score: 98,
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Insomnia
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3.83 avg rating — 165,815 ratings
score: 97,
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The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
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4.14 avg rating — 91,559 ratings
score: 97,
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Gerald's Game
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3.58 avg rating — 175,748 ratings
score: 96,
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Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
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4.27 avg rating — 216,059 ratings
score: 96,
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Later
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3.96 avg rating — 144,973 ratings
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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3.64 avg rating — 175,659 ratings
score: 95,
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Cujo
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3.80 avg rating — 314,885 ratings
score: 93,
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Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
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4.20 avg rating — 198,495 ratings
score: 91,
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Rage
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
3.71 avg rating — 55,717 ratings
score: 90,
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Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 172,365 ratings
score: 85,
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Feb 21, 2013 12:16PM
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Lol. I don't know, some of these are pretty "horror". Pet Cemetery? Firestarter?
Pet Sematary isn't just horror, it's one of the scariest books I've ever read. Salem's Lot is horror as well, given that it's about vampires and NOT the sexy, sparkly kind. The Dark Tower series is a mix of horror and fantasy. Besides, you didn't even list one of his most iconic non-horror titles; Dolores Claiborne. Bad list.
Brandon wrote: "how is salem's lot not a horror?"I thought Salem's Lot was a mild scare too especially way back the first time I ever read it. There are some other scary ones here also.
Josh wrote: "Pet Sematary isn't just horror, it's one of the scariest books I've ever read. Salem's Lot is horror as well, given that it's about vampires and NOT the sexy, sparkly kind. The Dark Tower series is..."That is what I heard and was warned not to read it. I carefully avoid it.
~☆~Autumn♥♥ wrote: "Josh wrote: "Pet Sematary isn't just horror, it's one of the scariest books I've ever read. Salem's Lot is horror as well, given that it's about vampires and NOT the sexy, sparkly kind. The Dark To..."Don't misunderstand me. Pet Sematary is emotionally devastating and gets under your skin. But it's also one of the greater books I've ever read.
Josh wrote: "~☆~Autumn♥♥ wrote: "Josh wrote: "Pet Sematary isn't just horror, it's one of the scariest books I've ever read. Salem's Lot is horror as well, given that it's about vampires and NOT the sexy, spark..."As I once blogged: "This is Kingian horror at its best, and I mean that in every sense of the term. First, it's overt horror, which King engages in surprisingly infrequently (see my last post), and second, it's horror that manages to scare you and to move you on a deeper level. It's a meditation on death, and how different people deal with it; both the idea of it and the reality of it. It's about how a rational human being can be driven to the deepest irrationality by the inability to face and accept death. Death and grief are the theme from practically the first page, though it doesn't really become evident until the middle.
It does so in such a way as to really get under the reader's skin. It brings you face to face with just about the worst kind of death that could possibly exist; the death of a young, innocent child. The first time I read it all the way through, it was hard enough to read, but this time, now the father of an adult woman (that's the stepdaughter, but I'm the only father she's ever known), a fourteen-year-old son and a sixteen-month old, well, it nearly undid me. Cujo was just the warm-up. For a bit, I hated King for making me feel this death so deeply. I looked at my own kids and thought the only thing worse than one of them dying would be my wife dying and...oh my god KING YOU BASTARD!"
~☆~Autumn♥♥ wrote: "Thanks for all this information about Pet Sematary. I will carefully avoid it as I am suffering enough grief right now so I don't need anything to add to it. I just finished [book:The Outsider|3612..."Sorry to hear you're going through grief. Strength to you.
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