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I have randomly decided that in addition to reading these books, I'm also going to rank them from my most favorite to least favorite. I will do this as I read and I will add in the books I've already read after I re-read them. I also apologize for the horrible pun in the title but I couldn't pass it up :)

All right! Here's my ever-changing list:

  1. The Long Walk
  2. It
  3. The Shining
  4. Pet Sematary
  5. The Institute
  6. Misery
  7. The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass
  8. 11/22/63
  9. The Dark Tower
  10. Black House
  11. Under the Dome
  12. Needful Things
  13. Dolores Claiborne
  14. The Green Mile
  15. Duma Key
  16. The Regulators
  17. The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands
  18. Insomnia
  19. Firestarter
  20. The Talisman
  21. The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
  22. Christine
  23. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
  24. The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
  25. The Outsider
  26. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three
  27. Desperation
  28. Rose Madder
  29. Lisey's Story
  30. Bag of Bones
  31. Cujo
  32. The Dark Half
  33. Full Dark, No Stars
  34. Different Seasons
  35. Salem's Lot
  36. The Stand
  37. Hearts in Atlantis
  38. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  39. Just After Sunset
  40. Cell
  41. From a Buick 8
  42. Gerald's Game
  43. Everything's Eventual
  44. Four Past Midnight
  45. The Plant (unfinished)
  46. Thinner
  47. Rage
  48. The Dead Zone
  49. Carrie
  50. The Mist
  51. The Colorado Kid
  52. The Eyes of the Dragon
  53. On Writing
  54. Skeleton Crew
  55. The Running Man
  56. Cycle of the Werewolf
  57. Night Shift
  58. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  59. Blaze
  60. Dreamcatcher
  61. Danse Macabre
  62. The Tommyknockers
  63. Roadwork

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