Tabitha King's books?

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Wren

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When will I be able to read her works on Kindle?

I roll through different reading phases often - currently this is women writers. So I'm apparently very out of the loop: while I discovered Joe Hill's work (Locke & Key!!) without the name drop, I ridiculously didn't think to look up the rest of the family once I realized. Amazon finally suggested Tabitha King's name recently, seemingly through some sweet spot of years reading horror and books by women, and lo'! Her books aren't available through Kindle.

I can request them all I want, but she seems somewhat uncommonly read and there's so many other books out there already requested, right?
 

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When will I be able to read her works on Kindle?

I roll through different reading phases often - currently this is women writers. So I'm apparently very out of the loop: while I discovered Joe Hill's work (Locke & Key!!) without the name drop, I ridiculously didn't think to look up the rest of the family once I realized. Amazon finally suggested Tabitha King's name recently, seemingly through some sweet spot of years reading horror and books by women, and lo'! Her books aren't available through Kindle.

I can request them all I want, but she seems somewhat uncommonly read and there's so many other books out there already requested, right?
...and Unca Steve's son Owen, is a pretty fair writer himself...
 

AchtungBaby

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Don't go into Tabitha's books expecting horror-- they're mostly dramas, but they're set in small-town Maine so they still feel like her husband's books in that sense.

I bought all of them in hardcover and don't regret it at all. She's one of my favorite authors.
 

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Tabitha King is a wonderful writer in her own right. Her first book was Small World, which is a mash of sci-fi/horror. She has written several books that take place in the same locale (Nodd's Ridge) like her husband Stephen has done with Castle Rock. Her books are mainstream fiction. Pearl is my absolute favorite one. You won't go wrong reading her.
 

Wren

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Don't go into Tabitha's books expecting horror-- they're mostly dramas...

Hah, no but "King" seems to have ticked some Amazon search box in order to bring it up. This seems to be the same cross-search as when I look up different types of social justice and, seperately, niche gardening; this seems to show me a heck of a lot of, er, "how to grow" books which I keep telling Amazon I'm not interested in. As in, social freedom book, social history book, smoke your social freedom book, etc. I wouldn't attribute this to the cross-search except I'd never seen these old (year published) books before I happened to alternate these searches several times...

Anyway, just explaining a vague reason for her to pop up in one remote area of a horror search.

I've put her books on my wish list for next time I want to buy some paper-made books.
 

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Tabitha King is a wonderful writer in her own right. Her first book was Small World, which is a mash of sci-fi/horror. She has written several books that take place in the same locale (Nodd's Ridge) like her husband Stephen has done with Castle Rock. Her books are mainstream fiction. Pearl is my absolute favorite one. You won't go wrong reading her.
I've read Pearl. Is Book of Reuben good? She has a very methodical, New England pace to her work. It took me a minute to acclimate to her writing.
 

AchtungBaby

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I've read Pearl. Is Book of Reuben good? She has a very methodical, New England pace to her work. It took me a minute to acclimate to her writing.
I liked Book of Reuben. Didn't love it, but I had just had back surgery when I read it and was in a lot of pain-- was not in the right frame of mind for a Tabby King novel.

I would read all of her novels at least once.
 

Doc Creed

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I liked Book of Reuben. Didn't love it, but I had just had back surgery when I read it and was in a lot of pain-- was not in the right frame of mind for a Tabby King novel.

I would read all of her novels at least once.
The ones that I thought I'd try are Survivor, The Trap, and the Book of Reuben. Joe Hill surprised me. His first book scared the crap out of me. It really caught me off guard. A genuinely scary ghost story.
 

Bev Vincent

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How many books does Tabitha have? When I finish the last 8 Stephen King books, I'm going to expand into the rest of his family.

She has eight books. The first is a standalone horror, the next five are all set in Nodd's Ridge, Maine. The seventh is a standalone (very bleak) and her most recent book is a collaborative Southern Gothic with the late Michael McDowell.