I never ever wanted to pick up a Stephen King book because he gets so much hype...thats until my curiosity made me read the Shining and holy hell. As great as Kubricks version was, it just doesn't pick up the dread and emotional ties Jack has with he hotel and his son. Gosh, the way SK writes his characters, and man does he write children so well, makes you feel what they are going through and you sympathize with them. Danny and Jack are some of the best characters just because sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones we hold on to inside ourselves. So this book will always have a special place for me. Sk is a phenomenal writer of horror and I can tell he's been through some shit to get those characters on point. Im now on the hype train, Thanks for your great content!

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

I thought that too when I first read the book. He writes kids very well and it hits home some times! Very descriptive writer and I love it! Glad to see you back on the train! Lol

Finder Keepers is one of my favorite King books. Criminally underrated does anyone else think so?

@zachsutton6195

10 ай бұрын

In my top 10 for sure

@danielhruskocy1624

2 ай бұрын

I just finished the Mr. Mercedes / Bill Hodges Trilogy and while I enjoyed them all, they are just outside 'top-10' range for me. I read them nearly back-to-back-to-back, so the entire story kind of played out for me like a longer King-style novel. Loved Bill, Holly and Jerome and the entire series, but I have a hard time seeing them as separate stories. I'm looking forward to continuing with Holly through "The Outsider". "If It Bleeds" and "Holly", so maybe those will further shape my thoughts on these...

Love that you still have Christine in the top 10. I totally agree! Such an underrated, awesome book! Thanks for getting videos out every day this month! Lots of fun checking each day to see what you have put out there!😀

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support! Been tough, but it’s been fun!!

100% agree on Christine! I absolutely loved it!

11/22/63 and The Dead Zone are my current top 2. I am going back through his work in chronological order so I can’t wait to come up with an updated top ten. Great video! Love to see Christine get a shoutout.

awesome list my man mine is very similar minus salems lot and dead zone! 11/22/63 is a modernization of dead zone so i think you'd love it, very good book! 11/22/63 is my second favorite king novel behind only It. not sure where exactly pet sematary falls in my rankings but it's definitely top 10. easily the book that has stuck with me the most i think about it all the time, so damn disturbing and depressing lol. love your content :)

It's been awhile since I have read a Stephen King book. After your list, I'll have to give them another try!!!

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Always good to pick up a King!

@kevinsbookcase59

Жыл бұрын

@@ZacksBooks I would read him back in the 80s till the mid 90s...so your video got me really interested in revisiting his books .. again!!!

Glad to see dreamcatcher get some Love.. it’s one of my favorites as well. People always tell me how much ir sucks lol. I love the movie too just watched it again yesterday

11/22/63 is not just historical fiction, it’s a love story, science fiction, horror and thriller. I think you might enjoy it

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Since posting this video, I have. And I loved it very much. It is now one of, if not thee, top Book I’ve ever read!

@karinakassim

Жыл бұрын

@@ZacksBooks it’s absolutely phenomenal 💕

The Stand has to be on any top 10

Salems lot is not just one of my favourite Stephen King novels but one of my all time favourite novels ever, second only to the Lord of the Rings So for me it is Salems lot It The shining The stand The green mile Bag of bones 11/22/63 Misery Carrie Pet Sematary

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Great list, I haven’t read a few of them! I also wanna read the lord of the rings myself, I only hear great things!

I'm new to Stephen King and I'm currently on my 5th novel by him, and Misery is the best one I've read so far. The pacing is brilliant, the characters are iconic, and the suspense is incredible! It's a page-turner for sure!

I havent read a ton of him but I seem to like the older stuff a bit better, and the stuff without as much of a supernatural focus. It, Misery, The Shining and The Green Mile are favorites of mine.

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

I seem to enjoy the older stuff as well, but I have enjoyed a few of the newer things as well! Good list!

I've read all of these except Dreamcatcher, Christine and The Green Mile, but they are very high on my King TBR list! My favorite from him remains It, but Misery, Gerald's Game, Pet Sematary, and Full Dark, No Stars are also favorites!

@turdferguson4007

Жыл бұрын

The Stand, 11/22/63, Wizard and glass as well as under the dome and the shining all rank higher in my list than all of those except It and misery. You have to read them if you haven’t

I really enjoyed Revival

I'm currently reading IT for the first time (about 25% in) I'm well aware of "the scene" and am not looking forward to getting to that part but otherwise I'm loving it.

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Literally the only reason it wasn’t number 1 this time for me, just didn’t wanna read it again and it’s a whole chapter almost!

@WillieShakes11

Жыл бұрын

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Wow very surprised not to see the Stand. My favorite novel from King for sure. Actually sort of refreshing not to see it considering a lot of these lists look so similar. Glad I watched, keep up the good work.

@jg1335

8 ай бұрын

I checked out the rest of your channel after seeing this video. Realized you had read it and ranked it in the past, and that you had it at number nine again in the video from a few months back. Cool to see your opinion fluctuates like that. I feel like some people on KZread kind of pander and might embellish the truth on their lists.

The Shining, Pet Semetary, and 11/22/63 is my top 3.

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Still gotta read 11/22/63, may be coming up soon for me!

Salem’s lot, Under the Dome and Misery are my top 3. Not Necessarily in that order. Needful things and Christine are way up there for me too.

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Under the dome is a top 20 or 30 for me, but it’s still a very good book. All good options!

I have the green mile in its six book paperback form, how it was originally published.

Love your list , respect your list, but where are the newer books, duma key, 11/22/63, mr mercedes or the institute, after 2000 he also wrote good books

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

I have not read Duma Key, 11/22/63, or the Hodges trilogy yet, I really want to! I did enjoy the institute, just didn’t quite top these 10. It’d be sitting in my top 20 for sure!

@DaveShaves44

Жыл бұрын

duma key and mr mercedes trilogy are all PHENOMENAL. i actually really enjoyed all 3 of his hardcase crime novels as well and nobody talks about those either. later, joyland, and colorado kid

Ok, where did you get that shirt??

I love dreamcatchers. I also love Duma Key, Insomnia and Bag of Bones

I wanted to bail at Dreamcatchers, but I’m lazy so I stuck around. Christine and Dead Zone…Good picks. Green Mile? Over The Stand? Ok. Different strokes for different folks..there are really no bad answers( unless you have Buick 8 up there). Off the top of my head, no short story/collection/ Bachman/ Dark Tower books included.. 1. The Stand 2. The Shining 3. It 4. Christine 5. Pet Semetary 6. Dead Zone 7. Misery 8. Carrie 9 Gerald’s Game 10. The Dark Half

Salem’s Lot is such a good book. I really FEEL like I’m in Salem’s Lot it’s crazy.

@badboybootz8

11 ай бұрын

Im 200 pages in and saying come onnnnnnn alreadyyyyy king really knows how to draggggg it out smh

here are my top 3 stephen king books 1) Christine 2) Dreamcatcher 3) The Institute

My top 3 are Salem’s Lot, It & Pet Semetery

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

Great list, love seeing how different people see and rank King books!

My top 3 are 1. IT (greatest book ive ever read) 2. Pet sematary 3. Outsider

@Kate.922

Жыл бұрын

what about me??

@horrorgames420

Жыл бұрын

@@Kate.922 4 . Carrie Please don't hurt me lol

@Kate.922

Жыл бұрын

@@horrorgames420 i could never hurt you Pennywise we have so much in common...we both hate those meddling teens!!!

Top 3: IT The Shining Misery

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good top 3! Misery was a lot better for me the second time around, great book!

Have u read the institute by Steven king ?

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

I have, it’s been a few years but I remember liking it. I liked Billy Summers and Fairy Tale a little more however but the institute is still a good book!

@Chilling498

Жыл бұрын

Shots for dots 😀

Ahh The Shining. In my bottom 3 books from King. But no one has the same top 3 from King so 🤷🏻‍♂️

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

That’s why I like books, a 5 star for one person can be a DNF for another. It’s always fun hearing other people’s opinions on them and comparing them!

I cry every time I read The Green Mile.💜

@ZacksBooks

Жыл бұрын

It’s a sad book, but a phenomenal one!

@natecorrea9536

9 ай бұрын

My favorite books are the Revival and The Stand

“It could have been a bit shorter” This applies to ALL Stephen king books. The stand could easily have been 500 pages

You must not have read the stand. I loved It was one of his scarier books also I’d thought I’d mention I’m terrified of clowns and this book made that fear worse.

It?

Dont stare at the dead lights

The short story " N ", is my favorite tale of STEPHEN KING; it's CREEPING !!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm reading Salem's Lot now and ugh. The thing positive about King's writing is his natural unique ability to bring everything to life however his negative is he lets things get wildly overgrown in detail and doesn't know where to cut it off which kills a lot of the horror. Salem's Lot suffers from this. Too many trivial meaningless roadblocks that stifles a focused rhythmic pace. Going to the Marsten House is like an all day event where dumb characters get sidetracked by the sunset, door knobs, chalk on someone hands, cigarettes. It just beats around the bush until you're like enough already. I'm rooting for the vampires. All the characters sound like different version of himself. They all have their clever smart comebacks and trivial witty quickness.

No mention of The Stand?!! WTH? Garbage.

"I felt like it could have been shorter". That's almost all King books. :) So many overly sensitive people about the "orgy". Good lord grow a pair. It's a HORROR book. It talks about HORRible things. Every list I see for King someone is whining about that scene to score brownie points. You could just say, "hey it's a great book and I loved reading it and it scared me, blah blah" and not even mention it, but people ALWAYS have to bring up that scene and act "shocked" so they can somehow seem above it in a moral sense. We ALL KNOW it's in the book, no need to continuously reiterate how much it "disturbs" your delicate feelies. It's honestly tiresome at this point. Just say you liked the book and move on. No need to constantly retread that nonsense.

i should be #1..i was Prom Queen afterall