Peter Zane’in yazdığı Yazarların On Favori Kitabı adlı eserde King’e de yer vermiş. Kitaba göre Stephen King’in on favori kitabı şu şekilde:
1) The Golden Argosy – Van H Cartmell
2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
3) The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
4) McTeague – Frank Norris
5) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
6) Bleak House – Charles Dickens
7) 1984 – George Orwell
8) The Raj Quartet – Paul Scott
9) Light in August – William Faulkner
10) Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy