Books Stephen King Recommends discussion

Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Stephen King recommended author in Chapter 5 of Berkley's 1983 paperback edition of Danse Macabre.

From Wikipedia:

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He is also well known for his memoir of his life, A Day Of Pleasure.

Published Works

Eulogy to a Shoelace
The Family Moskat (1950)
Satan in Goray (1955)
The Magician of Lublin (Novel) (1960)
The Slave (1962)
Zlateh the Goat (1966)
The Fearsome Inn (1967)
Mazel and Shlimazel (1967)
The Manor (1967)
Zeitl and Rickel (1968) [13]
Utzel and his Daughter, Poverty (1968)
The Estate (1969)
The Golem (1969)
A Day of Pleasure, Stories of a Boy Growing Up In Warsaw (1969)
A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories (1970)
Elijah The Slave (1970)
Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula (1970)
The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (1971)
Enemies, a Love Story (1972)
The Wicked City (1972)
The Hasidim (1973)
The Fools of Chelm and Their History (1973)
A Crown of Feathers, and Other Stories (1974)
Naftali and the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (1976)
A Little Boy in Search of God (1976)
Shosha (1978)
A Young Man in Search of Love (1978)
Old Love (1979)
Reaches of Heaven. A Story Of The Baal Shem Tov (1980)
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982) (stories selected by Singer)
The Penitent (1983)
Teibele and Her Demon (1983)
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983) (basis for the movie Yentl)
Why Noah Chose the Dove (1984)
The King of the Fields (1988)
Scum (1991)
The Certificate (1992)
Meshugah (1994)
Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
In My Father's Court