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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. The Dark Tower
  9. Black House
  10. Needful Things
  11. Dolores Claiborne
  12. The Green Mile
  13. Duma Key
  14. The Regulators
  15. The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands
  16. Insomnia
  17. Firestarter
  18. The Talisman
  19. The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
  20. Christine
  21. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
  22. The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
  23. The Outsider
  24. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three
  25. Desperation
  26. Rose Madder
  27. Lisey's Story
  28. Bag of Bones
  29. Cujo
  30. The Dark Half
  31. Different Seasons
  32. Salem's Lot
  33. The Stand
  34. Hearts in Atlantis
  35. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  36. Just After Sunset
  37. Cell
  38. From a Buick 8
  39. Gerald's Game
  40. Everything's Eventual
  41. Four Past Midnight
  42. The Plant (unfinished)
  43. Thinner
  44. Rage
  45. The Dead Zone
  46. Carrie
  47. The Mist
  48. The Colorado Kid
  49. The Eyes of the Dragon
  50. On Writing
  51. Skeleton Crew
  52. The Running Man
  53. Cycle of the Werewolf
  54. Night Shift
  55. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  56. Blaze
  57. Dreamcatcher
  58. Danse Macabre
  59. The Tommyknockers
  60. Roadwork

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