And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession-to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life-like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963-turning on a dime. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer.
It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. What are Stephen King’s highest-rated books, anyhow? And yes, these five highest-rated King books are in order. For the purposes of this post, we also did not include book sets commonly seen on Goodreads and did not include any of Stephen King’s nonfiction or anthologies, excluding The Green Mile, which was originally published as a series. We included only those books with over 100k ratings. We wanted to know…what are the highest-rated Stephen King books out there? And we were excited to find some pleasant surprises.īecause there are such a wide array of King books with anywhere from 30,000 to over 200k ratings, we wanted to ensure we considered the widest range of opinions.
With dozens of books, popular opinion is divided when looking for a place to start with the King of Horror. Each book he puts out adds something to our to-be-read list. We’re huge fans of King’s ability to tell uncanny stories with unforgettable characters. Stephen King is a titan of writing, specifically horror fiction-though he dipped his hand into the crime space time and time again.
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