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Horror writer Stephen King's works are gripping, masterfully written and packed full of characters that are likely to haunt you in your dreams.
More than a handful of his masterpieces have been transformed into movies and TV series. Think Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Green Mile, IT, Misery and Castle Rock, to name a few.
Watched the movies and loved them? Perhaps you're the kind who prefers to read the book before you watch the movie? Whatever your reason for wanting to get stuck into this wordsmith's works, here are the sites selling Stephen King's stories to get that ball rolling.
Here's a full list of Stephen King books, in order of publish date. This list includes graphic novels, short story collections, essays, collected interviews and anthologies but excludes screenplays.
Book title | Publish year |
---|---|
Carrie | 1974 |
Salem's Lot | 1975 |
The Shining | 1977 |
Rage | 1977 |
The Stand | 1978 |
Night Shift | 1978 |
The Long Walk | 1979 |
The Dead Zone | 1979 |
Firestarter | 1980 |
Roadwork | 1981 |
Cujo | 1981 |
Danse Macabre | 1981 |
The Running Man | 1982 |
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger | 1982 |
Different Seasons | 1982 |
Creepshow | 1982 |
Christine | 1983 |
Pet Sematary | 1983 |
Cycle of the Werewolf | 1983 |
The Talisman | 1984 |
The Eyes of the Dragon | 1984 |
Thinner | 1984 |
Skeleton Crew | 1985 |
The Bachman Books | 1985 |
It | 1986 |
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three | 1987 |
Misery | 1987 |
The Tommyknockers | 1987 |
Nightmares in the Sky | 1988 |
Bare Bones - Conversations on Terror | 1988 |
The Dark Half | 1989 |
The Stand | 1990 |
Four Past Midnight | 1990 |
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | 1991 |
Needful Things | 1991 |
Gerald's Game | 1992 |
Dolores Claiborne | 1992 |
Nightmares & Dreamscapes | 1993 |
Insomnia | 1994 |
Rose Madder | 1995 |
The Green Mile | 1996 |
Desperation | 1996 |
The Regulators | 1996 |
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass | 1997 |
Six Stories | 1997 |
Bag of Bones | 1998 |
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 1999 |
Hearts in Atlantis | 1999 |
Blood and Smoke | 1999 |
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | 2000 |
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing | 2000 |
The Plant | 2000 |
Dreamcatcher | 2001 |
Black House | 2001 |
From a Buick 8 | 2002 |
Everything's Eventual | 2002 |
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | 2003 |
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah | 2004 |
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | 2004 |
The Colorado Kid | 2005 |
Faithful | 2005 |
Cell | 2006 |
Lisey's Story | 2006 |
Blaze | 2007 |
Duma Key | 2008 |
Just After Sunset | 2008 |
Under the Dome | 2009 |
Stephen King Goes to the Movies | 2009 |
Full Dark, No Stars | 2010 |
Blockade Billy | 2010 |
American Vampire Vol. 1 | 2010 |
11/22/63 | 2011 |
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole | 2012 |
Joyland | 2013 |
Doctor Sleep | 2013 |
Mr. Mercedes | 2014 |
Revival | 2014 |
Finders Keepers | 2015 |
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | 2015 |
End of Watch | 2016 |
Six Scary Stories | 2016 |
Charlie the Choo-Choo | 2016 |
Hearts in Suspension | 2016 |
Gwendy's Button Box | 2017 |
Sleeping Beauties | 2017 |
The Outsider | 2018 |
Elevation | 2018 |
Flight or Fright | 2018 |
The Institute | 2019 |
If It Bleeds | 2020 |
According to Goodreads, these are the most highly rated Stephen King novels with over 1,000 reviews as at the time of writing. All these books scored above 4.5. Boxed sets have been excluded.
The Dark Tower Boxed was also highly rated but has been excluded from this list as it's a series.
Stephen King's novels have been adapted into both movies and TV series over the years. Here they are in order of when they were released:
Film | Year |
---|---|
Carrie | 1976 |
The Shining | 1980 |
Creepshow | 1982 |
Cujo | 1983 |
The Dead Zone | 1983 |
Christine | 1983 |
Children of the Corn | 1984 |
Firestarter | 1984 |
Cat's Eye | 1985 |
Silver Bullet | 1985 |
Maximum Overdrive | 1986 |
Stand by Me | 1986 |
Creepshow 2 | 1987 |
The Running Man | 1987 |
A Return to Salem's Lot | 1987 |
Pet Sematary | 1989 |
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | 1990 |
Graveyard Shift | 1990 |
Misery | 1990 |
The Lawnmower Man | 1992 |
Pet Sematary Two | 1992 |
The Dark Half | 1993 |
Needful Things | 1993 |
The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 |
The Mangler | 1995 |
Dolores Claiborne | 1995 |
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest | 1995 |
Thinner | 1996 |
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace | 1996 |
Sometimes They Come Back... Again | 1996 |
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering | 1996 |
The Night Flier | 1997 |
Apt Pupil | 1998 |
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror | 1998 |
Sometimes They Come Back... for More | 1998 |
The Green Mile | 1999 |
The Rage: Carrie 2 | 1999 |
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return | 1999 |
Hearts in Atlantis | 2001 |
Children of the Corn: Revelation | 2001 |
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red | 2001 |
The Mangler 2 | 2002 |
Julie Ganapathi | 2003 |
Dreamcatcher | 2003 |
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer | 2003 |
Secret Window | 2004 |
Riding the Bullet | 2004 |
The Mangler Reborn | 2005 |
Creepshow 3 | 2006 |
1408 | 2007 |
The Mist | 2007 |
No Smoking | 2007 |
Dolan's Cadillac | 2009 |
Children of the Corn: Genesis | 2011 |
Carrie | 2013 |
A Good Marriage | 2014 |
Mercy | 2014 |
Cell | 2016 |
The Dark Tower | 2017 |
It | 2017 |
Gerald's Game | 2017 |
1922 | 2017 |
Pet Sematary | 2019 |
It Chapter Two | 2019 |
In the Tall Grass | 2019 |
Doctor Sleep | 2019 |
Series | Year |
---|---|
Salem's Lot | 1979 |
It | 1990 |
Sometimes They Come Back | 1991 |
The Tommyknockers | 1993 |
The Stand | 1994 |
The Langoliers | 1995 |
The Shining | 1997 |
Trucks | 1997 |
Quicksilver Highway | 1997 |
Woh | 1998 |
Carrie | 2002 |
The Dead Zone | 2002–2007 |
Salem's Lot | 2004 |
Desperation | 2006 |
Nightmares & Dreamscapes | 2006 |
Children of the Corn | 2009 |
Haven | 2010–2015 |
Bag of Bones | 2011 |
Under the Dome | 2013–2015 |
Big Driver | 2014 |
11.22.63 | 2016 |
The Mist | 2017 |
Mr. Mercedes | 2017–present |
Castle Rock | 2018–present |
Creepshow | 2019–present |
The Outsider | 2020 |
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