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  The 10 Best Stephen King Books, Ranked BY CHRIS EVANGELISTA    SEPT. 22, 2024  Static Media/Getty Images Stephen King has been scaring us for half a century, and he shows no signs of stopping. King has penned a lot of books, and fans will tell you there's value to be found in almost all of them. But what are the best of the best? That's a loaded question — everyone's tastes are different, and everyone has their own personal favorite King title. But we're going to take the leap and try to whittle it down to 10 books. Some of these choices might be controversial, but when considering King's entire body of work, we think these are the 10 best Stephen King books.  10. Night Shift Signet/Don Brautigam Stephen King has published a few short story collections (in fact, he just published on this year, titled "You Like it Darker"), but the King collection that had arguably the most impact was the first, "Night Shift," released in 1978. The common consen...

 The 15 Best Dystopian Novels Of All Time, Ranked BY MIKE BEDARD    SEPT. 9, 2025  You may think the world's already pretty bad. Maybe you think we already exist in a dystopian world, but after you read some of the best dystopian novels ever, you'll see just how much worse it can get.  Dystopian fiction exists in contrast to utopian works. Whereas utopias conceive an idyllic world, dystopias examine what happens when society breaks down. It's usually a subset of science-fiction where something that exists in the real world has been taken to the extreme, causing mass suffering for most of the population. Environmental degradation, police states, or even the complete absence of free will are common aspects of the genre, using the story at hand to explore a darker world and how humanity can still manage to shine through.  From older books that have been scarily prescient to newer works that are already classics, these are the dystopian books to read to get the...

  The 12 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time, Ranked BY LEO NOBORU LIMA    OCT. 25, 2025  The beautiful thing about speculative fiction is that, in the manner of a magical artifact or a talented shapeshifter, it can take any form. Much like the best sci-fi books of all time, the greatest fantasy books cover a wide ground spanning centuries, countless languages, myriad subgenres, and pretty much the entire globe. Naturally, a list of the best fantasy literature throughout history would need to get into the hundreds to even begin to be truly comprehensive. But we might as well start here. The works ranked below (including series and standalone novels, as befits the genre) are all not just hugely important, innovative, and influential staples of different eras in the fantasy fiction canon, but also, at the simplest level, incredible reads — works of drama, comedy, mystery and adventure that demonstrate how far imagination put to paper can go. Here are what we deem the 12 bes...