<li>'s 清單 : Books 書
Stephen King 史蒂芬·金 is one of my favorite authors. Here is a list of King books I've read, ranked in order of enjoyment, from most to least:
- It
- Salem's Lot
- Hearts in Atlantis
- The Stand
- Dark Tower I, II, III, IV
- Misery
- Christine
- Cujo
- Needful Things
- Black House
- Duma Key
- Night Shift
- Skeleton Crew
- Gerald's Game
- Four Past Midnight
- Lisey's Story
- The Eyes of the Dragon
- Blaze
- Different Seasons
- From a Buick 8
- Rose Madder
- Thinner
- The Running Man
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes
- Bag of Bones
- The Dead Zone
- Carrie
- Everything's Eventual
- Insomnia
- The Shining
- Pet Semetary
- Dark Tower V, VI, VII
- Cell
- The Talisman
- Long Walk
- Regulators
- Desperation
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
After reading 37 books, I created this plot of my ranking versus the year the book was published. The ranking is (37 - i) where i is the rank of the book above. As you can see, there isn't a clear trend, clearing up the worry that King's best works have been in the past, or that there was any period during which my enjoyment of King's works dropped.

Another collection of disturbing short stories I recommend is Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.
Other excellent authors I enjoy:
- Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Dirk Gently series
- Richard Adams - Watership Down
- Scott Adams - God's Debris (free e-book), The Religion War
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation series, Robot series (haven't gotten around to the Galatic Empire series), I, Asimov, (want to read In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt but these seem to be out of print)
- Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Richard Dawkins - Selfish Gene, Blind Watchmaker
- Al Franken - Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Truth (with jokes)
- Winston Groom - Forrest Gump
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- Lawrence Lessig - Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Future of Ideas, Free Culture (free e-book)
- George Orwell - 1984 (particularly relevant today), Animal Farm (ditto), Shooting an Elephant
- George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series (even my AI professor likes this)
- Dan Simmons - Summer of Night
- John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men, Travels with Charley
- J.R.R. Tolkein - Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
- Nick Trout - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
- Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, Shadowmarch, War of the Flowers, Tailchaser's Song, Otherland tetralogy
- E.O. Wilson - Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge










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