Shakespeare had a gift for language and plot; Stephen King has a gift for making people think and questioning life/reality; Dr. Suess had the gift of providing meaningful messages while still entertaining all ages.
The ones I’ve read are Bolded
Shakespeare:
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Funeral Elegy by W.S.
Hamlet
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
King Lear
Julius Caesar
Love’s Labours Lost
A Lover’s Complaint
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Rape of Lucrece
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Sonnets
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis
Winter’s Tale
Steven King:
1963 The Aftermath (an unpublished novel)
1970 Sword in the Darkness (an unpublished novel)
1973 Blaze (an unpublished novel)
1974 Carrie
1975 ‘Salem’s Lot
1977 Rage (as Richard Bachman)
1977 The Shining
1978 Night Shift (stories)
1978 The Stand
1979 The Dead Zone
1979 The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman)
1980 Firestarter
1981 Cujo
1981 Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)
1981 Road Work (as Richard Bachman)
1982 Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
1982 The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
1982 Different Seasons (novellas):
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Apt Pupil
The Body
The Breathing Method
1982 The Running Man (as Richard Bachman)
1983 Christine
1983 Pet Sematary
1983 Cycle of the Werewolf
1984 The Talisman (written with Peter Straub)
1984 Thinner (as Richard Bachman)
1985 Skeleton Crew (stories)
1985 The Bachman Books (novel collection)
1986 It
1987 The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 Misery
1987 The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
1988 The Tommyknockers
1988 Nightmares in the Sky
1989 The Dark Half
1989 Dolan’s Cadillac (limited edition)
1989 My Pretty Pony (limited edition)
1990 The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
1990 Four Past Midnight (stories)
1991 Needful Things
1991 The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
1992 Gerald’s Game
1993 Dolores Claiborne
1993 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
1994 Insomnia
1995 Rose Madder
1995 Umney’s Last Case
1996 The Green Mile
1996 Desperation
1996 The Regulators (as Richard Bachman)
1997 Six Stories (stories)
1997 The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1998 Bag of Bones
1999 Storm of the Century
1999 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999 The New Lieutenant’s Rap (limited edition)
1999 Hearts in Atlantis
1999 Blood and Smoke (audio book)
2000 Riding the Bullet (electronically published novella)
2000 The Plant (electronically published)
2000 Secret Windows
2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
2001 Dreamcatcher
2001 Black House (written with Peter Straub)
2002 From a Buick 8
2002 Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (stories)
2003 The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised version)
2003 The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2004 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
2004 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the
Historic 2004 Season
2005 The Colorado Kid
2006 Cell
Dr. Seuss:
And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
The Butter Battle Book
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Cat in the Hat Song Book
The Cat’s Quizzer: Are You Smarter Than the Cat in the Hat?
Daisy-Head Mayzie
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
El Gato Ensombrerado
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Fox in Socks
Gerald McBoing Boing
Green Eggs and Ham
Happy Birthday to You
Hop on Pop
Horton Hatches the Egg
Horton Hears a Who
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Hunches in Bunches
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut
I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew
If I Ran the Circus
If I Ran the Zoo
The King’s Stilts
The Lorax
Marvin K. Money, Will You Please Go Now!
McElligot’s Pool
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Oh, Say Can You Say?
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
Scrambled Eggs Super
Seuss-isms for Success: insider tips on economic health from the
good doctor
Seuss-isms: wise and witty prescriptions for living from the
good doctor
The Sneetches, and Other Stories
Ten Apples up on Top
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket
Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose
Yertle the Turtle, and Other Stories
You’re Only Old Once
