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Author

Stephen King

Stephen King is the American novelist whose more than sixty books across horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and literary fiction have sold north of 350 million copies. Carrie, The Shining, It, The Stand, Misery, 11/22/63. His on-craft book On Writing remains required reading.

Reviews

4

Books on file

4

Avg rating

4.8

Years active

1978-2022

Reviewed

Our reviews of Stephen King's work

The takes

What we have said about Stephen King

  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King 2011 review. An English teacher discovers a portal to 1958 and decides to stop the Kennedy assassination. The single best late-King novel and the rare time-travel book that earns its 849 pages.

  • It by Stephen King 1986 review. Seven friends return to Derry, Maine, to face the shape-shifting evil they fought as children. One of the great American novels about childhood and the past.

  • The Stand by Stephen King 1978 (and 1990 Complete & Uncut) review. A weaponized plague kills 99 percent of humanity. The survivors are pulled toward Boulder or toward Las Vegas, and the novel that follows is one of the great American epics of its decade.

  • Fairy Tale by Stephen King 2022 review. Charlie Reade inherits a Maine estate and discovers a portal to a fairy-tale world that has gone seriously wrong. Late-career King at his most generously narrative.