Every Stephen King Novel Ranked Worst To Best

First published as a serial novel, released in six installments over six months in 1996, The Green Mile is nothing short of a perfect book. Telling the story of the towering supposed murderer John Coffey, a man who has the ability to heal the injured and ill and who may also be innocent of the crime he's been imprisoned for, The Green Mile blends themes of racism, religion, morality and hope with startling, unrivalled precision.

Told from the perspective of the prison's block supervisor Paul Edgecomb, the novel is tragedy of the highest order, a mystery that eats you up with its tension, a striking assessment on life, death, evil and innocence, and it comes complete with King's most harrowing ending. It just doesn't get better than this.

But then again...