Readers name Stephen King among authors they've read 20+ books by

writersJul 10, 202621139

In a community thread asking which authors people have read 20 or more books from, users repeatedly named Stephen King among their long-read authors. Multiple posts list King alongside names such as Terry Pratchett, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and Haruki Murakami as authors they have read five or more books by. One user wrote "oh Pratchett of course, also Stephen King I *think* but wouldn't swear on," and several other participants included King in short lists of living writers they have read extensively. The replies span mystery, literary, and speculative authors, but King appears across many posters' rosters, signaling sustained readership and frequent inclusion in readers' long-term author preferences. The thread underscores King’s continued presence in popular reading habits among this group of readers.

BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

oh Pratchett of course, also Stephen King I *think* but wouldn't swear on

329h ago

Maxwell Yezpitelok

@mrmxy.bsky.social

Disturbing, but also kind of heartening, to see that the guy who's been posting about Stephen King being John Lennon's killer since at least 2001 (much longer on paper) updated his website this week and STILL hates the coward Paul McCartney. Support independent journalism!

Can your pee brains NOT wrap around the fact that our government raped us all with pure government evil, the media in tow, defiling all of us and stealing the future we had and giving us, instead, banality, evil, sadness and insanity? The government wants you off balance and sick so as to control you better. To have an advantage over you. They’re evil, wake up. The stupidest thing we ever did was assassinate beautiful, good, brave, friend of all mankind; John Lennon and then look the other way when Stephen King got caught behind the glasses getting John’s autograph. Stupidest, most insane, cowardly and ugly and cruel thing we all ever did in my lifetime. Hoping evil government agent – the government’s ‘Ace in the hole’ – Yoko, will do our job is pretty stupid you all have to admit. I found out the hard way about her. I ran her all the way to Switzerland over a decade ago, in fact. Paul’s just a weak pussy with HIS silence. Ringo, too. Paul once tried to endorse me at a Berkeley, California concert on April Fool’s Day of 1990 and I have it on tape. They all know I’m right. Shame on us all. An asteroid like the one I saw as a boy that nearly killed us all, then, (They’re still out there.) may be the only thing that can save us from our own stupidity. The only alternative is to grow up over this evidence. I think our being worthy of earth is the best way to avoid the asteroid. It’s the number one reason I care and you don’t. You have no idea what sitting ducks we all are. I DO! Only our good behavior can have any effect on something so unstoppably powerful. “BLIP!” speed, people.

Source: lennonmurdertruth.com

159h ago

Maxwell Yezpitelok5

Yikes, I followed him for writing hundreds of thousands of pages accusing Stephen King of murdering John Lennon across 45 years, didn't know about his antisemitic van. Unfollowing now.

ccantor.bsky.social4

Saw this guy ranting about Lennon/King on the Berkeley campus in the late 80s/early 90s -- then some time later next to his van festooned with the most rancid "exterminate the vermin" antisemitic posters.

Kate Heartfield

@kateheartfield.com

[tamping down my tendency to be annoying about genre definitions] Margaret Atwood Sarah Waters Alan Cumyn Jeanette Winterson Emma Donoghue Stephen King (where he doesn't get shelved as F/SF I guess)

119h ago

Barry Deutsch

@barrydeutsch.bsky.social

Five living writers that you've read five books by each Connie Willis Sarah Paretsky Nevada Barr Stephen King Anne Tyler (I decided to limit myself to prose writers - if I'd included comics writers, it would have been easier).

410h ago

Megan Goodwin

@mpgphd.bsky.social

okay I have been giving this "living authors you've read five or more books by" thing some thought I think the representative list is - Peter Beagle - Martha Wells - Stephen King - Frederik Backman - Alice Walker - Suzanne Collins (damn, Toms Stoppard and Robbins died?)

811h ago

Laura Lorson1

Ok, I'm going with the choice to try not to lean on detective novel series...of which I read a ton...so I'll say Stephen King Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon Colson Whitehead William Gibson Haruki Murakami ...and I now realize that I DO read a lot of women, but not more than 3 or 4 novels by any

@ewiggins66.bsky.social

Five (or more) living writers you've read five books by each: Stephen King Tana French Elizabeth George David Morrell Charles Finch Margaret Atwood Josh Malerman Paul Tremblay And (RIP): Rex Stout Agatha Christie Lilian Jackson Braun

78h ago

David Lindsey Pittman

@dphrygian.com

5 authors you've read one short story from and pretend to be cultured but you're secretly a fraud and you know it YOU KNOW IT - Ursula K. Le Guin - "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" - Stephen King - "The Jaunt" ...I ran out of stories. I guess maybe some Lovecraft but F that weirdo racist.

77h ago

David Lindsey Pittman4

Oh! Oh! "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver. Totally a different vibe but it was maybe the first time I realized that literature was Good, Actually.

tetrismegistus2

I know Borges, I read "Library of Babel" said our hapless protagonist

Ponyus1

I was going to give you a freebie with hemmingway "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." but seems like its a misattribution to him since there are versions of the story from when he was 7 years old...

Winter Ives

@winterives.bsky.social

Five (or more) living writers that you’ve read five books by each: Ken Follett Stephen King George RR Martin Diana Gabaldon Margaret George Bernard Cornwell Bonus: (RIP) 🌹 JRR Tolkien Anne Rice Colleen McCullough Charles Dickens Jane Austen Sharon K. Penman #BookSky 💙📚

510h ago

Quoting this

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Five (or more) living writers you’ve read five books by each:* Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck) Stephanie Barron (Francine Barron Mathews) Claudia Bishop (Mary Stanton) Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin) Frances Brody (Frances McNeil) *I chose only women writers for this list! 1/3 #BOOKsky

Dee Morris

@dee-morris.bsky.social

Me: Well, at least Stephen King is still all right. Straight men left and right keep pissing me off or breaking my heart, but I've liked him for almost 40 years and he's never-- King: I voted for Platner. ... ... God DAMN it Steve

68h ago

notdaredevil

@skeptyk.bsky.social

Five living authors that you've read five books by each: Larry Niven William Gibson Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen King Harry Turtledove

47h ago

Jon Adcock

@jonadcock.bsky.social

Five (or more) living writers that you’ve read five books by each: Denis Lehane Walter Mosley Colson Whitehead John Scalzi Margaret Atwood Gregory Benford James Lee Burke Samuel Delaney Louise Erdrich Neil Gaiman Joe Haldeman M. John Harrison Stephen King

58h ago