I hate being scared. The genre of horror has never appealed to me, not in books and certainly not in movies; so I had always dismissed Stephen King as an author I could never enjoy, despite his successful and prolific career. That was until a friend recommended The Dark Tower series.

These twelve books are great Christmas gift ideas for any reader in your life! Don’t forget one for yourself too ;)

This series had me hooked from the start – it both satisfied the expectations you had from a YA fantasy novel with a female protagonist, yet it was also original enough to keep you interested and invested in what happened next.