Under the Dome

Don't miss the "harrowing" (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 11/10/2009
Pages: 1088
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 2.50d
ISBN: 9781439148501

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 50
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 135687 / Under the Dome


Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2009 pg. 62
Booklist 08/01/2009 pg. 10
Library Journal 09/01/2009 pg. 107
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2009
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2009 pg. 24
Time 09/21/2009 pg. 90
Entertainment Weekly 11/06/2009 pg. 32
New York Times Book Review 11/08/2009 pg. 1
People Weekly 11/16/2009 pg. 51
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2009 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/04/2009 pg. 98
People Weekly 12/28/2009 pg. 68
BookPage 11/01/2009

About the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.