I consider King one of my favourite authors, though I haven’t read most of his novels; I pretty much became a fan through his short story collections.
Same here. I’ve read his older short story collections multiple times (I think I’ve read them all but The Bazaar of Bad Dreams), but haven’t read many of the “required” novels. There’s something about the way he can build a whole world you can understand in just a few pages, but sometimes I find his novel output to be too much of a good thing.
I guess I’ve read
- The Stand (extended)
- The Dark Tower (1-4)
- Cycle of the Werewolf
- The Talisman
- The Eyes of the Dragon
- The Tommyknockers
- The Dark Half
- Needful Things
- Dolores Claiborne
- Insomnia
- The Green Mile
- Desperation
- The Regulators
- Bag of Bones
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- Lisey’s Story (didn’t finish)
- Duma Key
- Under the Dome (didn’t finish)
Looking at the bibliography, I guess I ended up reading almost all of his 90’s output. That’s probably because my mom would read the books then let me read them. As a homeschooled Christian high schooler, I was always shocked by that.