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stephen king books everyone should read.

The Dead Zone.

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Johnny Smith is injured in an accident and enters a coma for nearly five years. When he emerges, he can see horrifying secrets, but he cannot identify all the details because of an area of his brain being dead.

Needful Things

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Set in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, a new shop named "Needful Things" opens, to the curiosity of the townspeople. One by one, they start to come into the shop, drawn there by something they want more than anything else.

The Green Mile

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The Green Mile is Cold Mountain Penitentiary's Death Row. Paul Edgecomb has seen many men come and go through E Block, but none quite like John Coffey. The giant, sentenced to death for a horrifying crime, reveals a fascinating truth to Paul, shaking the very foundations of his world.

The Long Walk

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One hundred teenage boys (picked at random from a large pool of applicants) are chosen to participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk". Each walker must maintain a constant speed of no less than four miles an hour or risk being shot by soldiers monitoring the event.

those are my favorites from all of his books i have read. of course the short stories in Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual are top quality too. i actually like his short stories more than most of his books.