{"id":39630,"date":"2025-09-21T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/stephen-kings-top-10-books-including-brutal-western-masterpiece-books-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:57:24","slug":"stephen-kings-top-10-books-including-brutal-western-masterpiece-books-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/stephen-kings-top-10-books-including-brutal-western-masterpiece-books-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s top 10 books \u2014 including brutal Western masterpiece | Books | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2062972\/scariest-horror-books-by-stephen-king-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">king of horror<\/a> has penned many classics: It, The Shining and Carrie, just to name a few. When Stephen King&#8217;s not <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/films\/2107504\/The-Long-Walk-reviews-Stephen-King-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crafting new masterpieces<\/a>, he&#8217;s devouring books. The literary legend once shared that he reads an average of 80 books a year, saying: &#8220;So many books, so little time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">But what are his very favourite books? For The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, King shared his shortlist and a special story about his top pick. With just $4 to spend at a bargain shop in his hometown of Lisbon Falls, Maine, he risked over half of it on a book that ended up teaching &#8220;more about good writing than all the classes I\u2019ve ever taken&#8221;, noting: &#8220;It\u2019s the best $2.25 I ever spent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2110717\/stephen-king-10-favourite-books\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king of horror has penned many classics: It, The Shining and Carrie, just to name a few. When Stephen King&#8217;s not crafting new masterpieces, he&#8217;s devouring books. The literary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}