Here is a list of books Stephen King recommends for beginning writers (Found in On Writing):

1. A Perfect Crime: Peter Abrahams
2. Lights Out: Peter Abrahams
3. Pressure Drop: Peter Abrahams
4. Revolution #9: Peter Abrahams
5. A Death in the Family: James Agee
6. Lives of the Monster Dogs: Kristen Bakis
7. Regeneration: Pat Barker
8. The Eye in the Door: Pat Baker
9. The Ghost Road: Pat Barker
10. In the Night Season: Richard Bausch
11. The Intruder: Peter Blauner
12. The Sheltering Sky: Paul Bowles
13. The Tortilla Curtain: T. Coraghessan Boyle
14. A Walk in the Woods: Bill Bryson
15. Thank You for Smoking: Christopher Buckley
16. Where I'm calling From: Raymond Carver
17. Werewolves in Their Youth: Michael Chabon
18. Latitude Zero: Windsor Chorlton
19. Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
20. Family Values: K. C. Constantine
21. Unerworld: Don DeLillo
22. Cathedral: Nelson DeMille
23. The Gold Coast: Nelson DeMille
24. Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens
25. Common Carnage: Stephen Dobyns
26. The Church of the Dead Girls: Stephen Dobyns
27. The Woman Who Walked into Doors: Roddy Doyle
28. The Dick Gibson Show: Stanley Elkin
29. As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner
30. The Beach: Alex Garland
31. Deception on His Mind: Elizabeth George
32. Gravity: Tess Gerritsen
33. Lord of the Flies:William Golding
34. Furnace: Muriel Grey
35. A Gun for Sale: Graham Greene
36. Our Man in Havana: Graham Greene
37. The Fifties: David Halberstam
38. Why Sinatra Matters: Pete Hamill
39. Hannibal: Thomas Harris
40. Plainsong: Kent Haruf
41. Samilla Sense of Snow: Peter Hoeg
42. Dirty White Boys: Stephen Hunter
43. A Firing Offense: David Ignatius
44. A Widow for One Year: John Irving
45. The Tooth Fairy: Graham Joyce
46. The Devil's Own Work: Alan Judd
47. Good Enough to Dream: Roger Kahn
48. The Liar's Club: Mary Karr
49. Right to Life: Jack Ketchum
50. Survivor: Tabitha King
51. The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver
52. Into the Air: Jon Krakauer
53. To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
54. Our Guys: Bernard Lefkowitz
55. The Ignored: Bentley Little
56. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories: Norman Maclean
57. The Moon and Sixpence: W. Somerset Mauham
58. Cities of the Plain: Cormac McCarthy
59. The Crossing: Cormac McCarthy
60. Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt
61. Charming Billy: Alice McDermott
62. Ancient Shores: Jack McDevitt
63. Enduring Love: Ian McEwan
64. The Cement Garden: Ian McEwan
65. Dead Man's Walk:Larry McMurtry
66. Zeke and Ned:Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
67. A Canticle for Leibowitz: Walter M. Miller
68. Zombie: Joyce Carol Oats
69. In the Lake of the Woods: Tim O'Brein
70. The Speed Queen: Stewart O'Nan
71. The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
72. No Safe Place: Richard North Patterson
73. Freedomland: Richard Price
74. Close Range: Wyoming Stories: Annie Proulx
75. The Shipping News: Annie Proulx
76. One True Thing: Annie Quindlen
77. A Sight for Sore Eyes: Ruth Rendell
78. Waiting: Frank M. Robinson
79. The Harry PotterSeries: J. K. Rowling
80. Mohawk: Richard Russo
81. Reservation Road: John Burnham Schwartz
82. A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth
83. The Young Lions: Irwin Shaw
84. The Crater: Richard Slotkin
85. The Illusionist: Dinitia Smith
86. Men in Black: Scott Spencer
87. Joe Hill: Wallace Spencer
88. The Secret History: Donna Tartt
89. A Patchwork Planet: Anne Tyler
90. Hocus Pocus: Kurt Vonnegut
91. Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh
92. The Ax: Donald E. Westlake