Originally Posted by aws
You seem to be after the well-crafted-story King rather than the horror King so you might want to give Lisey's Story or (especially) Dolores Claiborne a try.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is also a nice (but short) read.
The Dark Tower series is his best stuff but I know you weren't that impressed by The Gunslinger. The series just gets better and better (Wizard and Glass being the exception as it's a bit too far-fetched).
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On the King stuff, I read Lisey's Story and found it quite disappointing.
Hearts in Atlantis, another relatively recent novel, has some cracking sections on the protaganist's college years and Vietnam. The supernatural factor is there but complements what's a great story already.
The main problem I find with his writing now is that some of it (like Lisey's Story) feels very formulaic if you've read a lot of his work already.