7 Best suspense books like The Running Man by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

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The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard…

"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

If you liked the suspense plot in The Running Man by Stephen King, Richard Bachman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Eyes of the Dragon

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of the most u… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Never will you talk to me like that again."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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2. Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes dead is better"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"Well, cats live as long as dogs,"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"A man who lies about beer makes enemies"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch."

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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3. Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from … read more

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  • horror
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4. The Mist

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a vi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"¿Sabes qué es el talento? Es la maldición de ambicionar."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young."

-Stephen King, The Mist

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5. Needful Things

By: Stephen King

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store fin… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. Dolores Claiborne

By: Stephen King

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story o… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Carrie

By: Stephen King

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior pr… read more

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  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Gunslinger

By: Stephen King

3.56

Format: None pages,

Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictionin 1978, the p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

3.15

Format: None pages,

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . In the intro… read more

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  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Dark Half

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the seri… read more

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11. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more

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12. The Tommyknockers

By: Stephen King

3.60

Format: 747 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2 ISBN 10: 0451156609 ISBN13: 9780451156600… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred-pound Coke machine, one need worry about nothing else."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on…"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir." Claudell Weems said hollowly inside his mask. Andy Torgeson turned toward him. "And you never even ordered it to halt, or fired a warning …"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

13. Gerald's Game

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more

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14. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

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  • suspense
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

15. Cycle of the Werewolf

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more

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16. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

17. Christine

By: Stephen King , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This is the story of a lover's triangle...It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry."… read more

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18. Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more

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19. Firestarter

By: Stephen King

3.91

Format: 564 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805. The Department of Scientific Intelligence … read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Winter is coming, he said to Cap."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"Free, free, free... necromancer, I love you."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"El cerebro es un músculo que puede mover el mundo"

-Stephen King, Firestarter

Cover of Cujo by Stephen        King

20. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

21. The Dead Zone

By: Stephen King

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] -  Johnny, the small boy who skated at br… read more

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13 Best fiction books like The Running Man by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.07

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The Mist

Stephen King

3.94

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Needful Things

Stephen King

4.82

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18 Top fiction books like Firestarter by Stephen King

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Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

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Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Bachman Books

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.14

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