Originally Posted by
elevenism
I'd honest to god skip Outsider, for now. It isn't AWFUL, but it's definitely one of his WORST books. For me, it's in the bottom 3 or so out of almost eighty.
The Shining is a great pick.
Also
Read The Stand, The Talisman, Under the Dome, It, Misery, The Green Mile, Needful Things, Pet Sematary, Revival, Bag of Bones, Desperation, The Regulators, 'Salem's Lot, and, ESPECIALLY, The Dark Tower, if you're ready to commit to it. It's seven books, a novella, and a short story, and probably about half of his other work connects to it.
I always tell new King fans, also, to read Different Seasons, which is a collection of novellas including Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (aka Shawshank Redemption,) The Body (aka Stand By Me,) and Apt Pupil.
Hell, I've got copies of some of these that I'd sure mail you.