Author J. Peder Zane asked scores of writers about their favorite novels for his 2007 book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
. Stephen King picks the following books:
1. The Golden Argosy, The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language
, edited by Van Cartmell and Charles Grayson
2.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
, by Mark Twain.
3.The Satanic Verses
, by Salman Rushdie.
4.McTeague
, by Frank Norris.
5.Lord of the Flies
by William Golding.
6.Bleak House 
by Charles Dicken.
7.1984 
, by George Orwell.
8.The Raj Quartet
, by Paul Scott.
9.Light in August
, by William Faulkner.
10.Blood Meridian
, by Cormac McCarthy.