While Stephen King is best known for his chilling horror novels and short stories, the author has actually ventured into several other genres across the years, and his non-horror books are surprisingly great. He may have made his name with supernatural scares like Carrie and The Shining, but his talents arent restricted to frightening the reader; many of his less terrifying reads are among Stephen Kings best books ever, largely because of their emotional weight, rich fantasy, or complex worldbuilding.

King has written plenty of non-horror novellas and short stories throughout his career, but its the full-length books that are the most interesting. For an author so deeply entrenched in a single genre, releasing an entire book that tackles completely different issues and new structures is extremely impressive. In fact, some of the best Stephen King movie adaptations come from his non-horror works, proving just how versatile he is as a storyteller.