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Stephen King Reveals His Favourite Underrated Books

Stephen King Reveals His Favourite Underrated Books

Stephen King Reveals His Favourite Underrated Books

Legendary author Stephen King has revealed his three 'criminally underrated' books - and one of them has been out for just a year.

King revealed his choices to Entertainment Weekly and the three picks were:

-The Double by George Pelecanos, which was only published last year and is the second book, after The Cut, to feature the character Spero Lucas, a young Iraqi War veteran.

-Germinal by Emile Zola, first published in 1885 and, according to King is, "a terrific novel of a labour strike, as fresh now as it was a hundred years ago".

-Headhunters by Jo Nesbo, which came out in 2008 is "hilarious and creepy...couldn’t put it down". A Norwegian film version of this was released in 2011 and became the highest-grossing Norwegian movie of all time, with a Hollywood remake due to enter production soon.

If Stephen King approves, then so do we; we'd recommend investing in all three and seeing what you think of them.

[via Entertainment Weekly]

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