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Stephen King Books in Order

Find every Stephen King book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 295 books / 27 series

American author best known for the horror and supernatural series *The Dark Tower* and iconic novels like *The Shining* and *It*. His books have sold over 350 million copies, earning him a National Medal of Arts. This page lists Stephen King’s books in order, including both chronological publication and series reading order.

All Stephen King Books in Chronological Order

1971 The Blue Air Compressor POoSS / 1 Buy
1974 Carrie POoSN / 1 Buy
1975 'Salem's Lot POoSN / 2 Buy
1977 Before the Play POoTSB / 1 Buy
1977 One for the Road POoSS / 2 Buy
1977 The Shining POoTSB / 2 Buy
1977 Rage(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 3 Buy
1977 The Ledge POoSS / 3 Buy
1978 Night Shift POoSSC / 1 Buy
1978 I Am the Doorway POoSS / 4 Buy
1978 The Stand POoSN / 4 Buy
1978 Quitters, Inc. POoSS / 5 Buy
1978 The Mangler POoSS / 6 Buy
1978 I Know What You Need POoSS / 7 Buy
1978 The Woman in the Room POoSS / 8 Buy
1978 The Man Who Loved Flowers POoSS / 9 Buy
1978 Night Surf POoSS / 10 Buy
1978 Jerusalem's Lot POoSS / 11 Buy
1979 The Long Walk(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 5 Buy
1979 The Dead Zone POoSN / 6 Buy
1979 The Crate POoSS / 12 Buy
1980 Firestarter POoSN / 7 Buy
1980 Crouch End POoSS / 13 Buy
1980 The Mist POoSS / 14 Buy
1980 The Monkey POoSS / 15 Buy
1981 Stephen King's Danse Macabre POoNB / 1 Buy
1981 Danse Macabre POoNB / 2 Buy
1981 Roadwork(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 8 Buy
1981 Cujo POoSN / 9 Buy
1981 The Jaunt POoSS / 16 Buy
1981 Do the Dead Sing? POoSS / 17 Buy
1982 Creepshow POoGN / 1 Buy
1982 The Gunslinger POoTDTB / 1 Buy
1982 Different Seasons POoSSC / 2 Buy
1982 The Running Man(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 10 Buy
1982 The Body POoSS / 18 Buy
1982 The Shawshank Redemption POoSS / 19 Buy
1983 Christine POoSN / 11 Buy
1983 Pet Sematary POoSN / 12 Buy
1983 Uncle Otto's Truck POoSS / 20 Buy
1983 Word Processor of the Gods POoSS / 21 Buy
1983 Apt Pupil POoSS / 22 Buy
1983 Cycle of the Werewolf POoSS / 23 Buy
1983 Silver Bullet POoSS / 24 Buy
1984 The Talisman POoTB / 1 Buy
1984 Thinner(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 13 Buy
1984 The Breathing Method POoSS / 25 Buy
1984 The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet POoSS / 26 Buy
1985 Skeleton Crew POoSSC / 3 Buy
1985 The Raft POoSS / 27 Buy
1986 It POoSN / 14 Buy
1986 For the Birds POoSS / 28 Buy
1986 Mrs. Todd's Shortcut POoSS / 29 Buy
1986 The End of the Whole Mess POoSS / 30 Buy
1987 Volume I: The Color of Evil POoTDDB / 1 Buy
1987 The Drawing of the Three POoTDTB / 2 Buy
1987 The Eyes of the Dragon POoSN / 15 Buy
1987 Misery POoSN / 16 Buy
1987 The Tommyknockers POoSN / 17 Buy
1987 Trucks POoSS / 31 Buy
1987 The Last Rung on the Ladder POoSS / 32 Buy
1988 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) POoNB / 3 Buy
1988 Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques POoNB / 4 Buy
1988 The Night Flier POoSS / 33 Buy
1989 Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) POoNB / 5 Buy
1989 One Past Midnight: The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) POoSN / 18 Buy
1989 The Dark Half POoSN / 19 Buy
1989 Home delivery POoSS / 34 Buy
1989 Dolan's Cadillac POoSS / 35 Buy
1989 My Pretty Pony POoSS / 36 Buy
1989 The Langoliers POoSS / 37 Buy
1989 Sneakers POoSS / 38 Buy
1990 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield POoTDDB / 2 Buy
1990 Four Past Midnight POoSSC / 4 Buy
1990 The Library Policeman POoSS / 39 Buy
1990 The Sun Dog POoSS / 40 Buy
1991 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness POoTDDB / 3 Buy
1991 The Waste Lands POoTDTB / 3 Buy
1991 Needful Things POoSN / 20 Buy
1991 Secret Window, Secret Garden POoSS / 41 Buy
1991 Three Carols POoSS / 42 Buy
1992 Gerald's Game POoSN / 21 Buy
1992 Dolores Claiborne POoSN / 22 Buy
1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes POoSSC / 5 Buy
1993 The Ten O'Clock People POoSS / 43 Buy
1993 Children of the Corn POoSS / 44 Buy
1993 Gray Matter POoSS / 45 Buy
1994 The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales POoSSC / 6 Buy
1994 Insomnia POoSN / 23 Buy
1994 The Man in the Black Suit POoSS / 46 Buy
1995 Rose Madder POoSN / 24 Buy
1995 Umney's Last Case POoSS / 47 Buy
1995 The Lawnmower Man POoSS / 48 Buy
1996 The Two Dead Girls POoGMB / 1 Buy
1996 The Mouse on the Mile POoGMB / 2 Buy
1996 Coffey's Hands POoGMB / 3 Buy
1996 Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix POoGMB / 4 Buy
1996 The Night Journey POoGMB / 5 Buy
1996 Coffey on the Mile POoGMB / 6 Buy
1996 Desperation POoSN / 25 Buy
1996 The Regulators(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 26 Buy
1997 Wizard and Glass POoTDTB / 4 Buy
1997 The Green Mile POoSSC / 7 Buy
1997 Six Stories POoSSC / 8 Buy
1997 Everything's Eventual POoSS / 49 Buy
1997 1408 POoSS / 50 Buy
1998 Legends(With: Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) POoLB / 1 Buy
1998 Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) POoLB / 2 Buy
1998 Bag of Bones POoSN / 27 Buy
1999 Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay POoP / 1 Buy
1999 Legends 3(By: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) POoLB / 3 Buy
1999 On Writing POoNB / 6 Buy
1999 Hearts in Atlantis POoSSC / 9 Buy
1999 Graveyard Shift: and Other Stories from Night Shift POoSSC / 10 Buy
1999 Blood and Smoke POoSSC / 11 Buy
1999 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon POoSN / 28 Buy
2000 Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing POoSSC / 12 Buy
2000 Riding the Bullet POoSS / 51 Buy
2000 Zenith Rising / The Plant POoSS / 52 Buy
2001 Black House POoTB / 2 Buy
2001 Dreamcatcher POoSN / 29 Buy
2001 LT's Theory of Pets POoSS / 53 Buy
2002 Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales POoSSC / 13 Buy
2002 From a Buick 8 POoSN / 30 Buy
2002 Autopsy Room Four POoSS / 54 Buy
2003 Wolves of the Calla POoTDTB / 5 Buy
2004 Song of Susannah POoTDTB / 6 Buy
2004 Faithful POoNB / 7 Buy
2004 The Dark Tower POoTDTB / 7 Buy
2004 Lisey and the Madman POoSS / 55 Buy
2005 Transgressions(With: Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) POoTB / 1 Buy
2005 The Colorado Kid POoSN / 31 Buy
2005 The Things They Left Behind POoSS / 56 Buy
2006 The Secretary of Dreams POoSoDB / 1 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) POoTB / 2 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) POoTB / 3 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) POoTB / 4 Buy
2006 Cell POoSN / 32 Buy
2006 Lisey's Story POoSN / 33 Buy
2006 Stationary Bike POoSS / 57 Buy
2006 The Road Virus Heads North POoSS / 58 Buy
2007 The Gunslinger Born(By: Robin Furth,Peter David) POoTDTBB / 1 Buy
2007 Blaze(As: Richard Bachman) POoSN / 34 Buy
2007 Mute POoSS / 59 Buy
2007 Ayana POoSS / 60 Buy
2008 The Long Road Home(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) POoTDTBB / 2 Buy
2008 Just After Sunset POoSSC / 14 Buy
2008 Duma Key POoSN / 35 Buy
2008 Harvey's Dream POoSS / 61 Buy
2008 N POoSS / 62 Buy
2008 The Gingerbread Girl POoSS / 63 Buy
2009 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One POoBHotYB / 1 Buy
2009 Captain Trips(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 1 Buy
2009 The Talisman: Road of Trials(With: Peter Straub,Tony Shasteen) POoGN / 2 Buy
2009 American Nightmares(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 2 Buy
2009 Treachery(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) POoTDTBB / 3 Buy
2009 The Fall of Gilead(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) POoTDTBB / 4 Buy
2009 Stephen King Goes to the Movies POoSSC / 15 Buy
2009 Under the Dome POoSN / 36 Buy
2009 UR POoSS / 64 Buy
2009 Morality POoSS / 65 Buy
2009 The Bone Church POoSS / 66 Buy
2009 Premium Harmony POoSS / 67 Buy
2010 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 1 Buy
2010 American Vampire, Vol. 1(With: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 1 Buy
2010 The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 POoSoDB / 2 Buy
2010 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two POoBHotYB / 2 Buy
2010 Hardcases(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 3 Buy
2010 Soul Survivors(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 4 Buy
2010 Battle of Jericho Hill(With: Robin Furth,Peter David) POoTDTBB / 5 Buy
2010 In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Caf’ POoSSC / 16 Buy
2010 Full Dark, No Stars POoSSC / 17 Buy
2010 1922 POoSS / 68 Buy
2010 Blockade Billy POoSS / 69 Buy
2010 Tommy POoSS / 70 Buy
2011 American Vampire, Vol. 2(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 2 Buy
2011 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 2 Buy
2011 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three POoBHotYB / 3 Buy
2011 No Man's Land(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 5 Buy
2011 11/22/63 POoSN / 37 Buy
2011 Mile 81 POoSS / 71 Buy
2011 The Little Green God of Agony POoSS / 72 Buy
2011 Under the Weather / ’ la dure POoSS / 73 Buy
2011 Herman Wouk Is Still Alive POoSS / 74 Buy
2011 The Dune POoSS / 75 Buy
2012 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 3 Buy
2012 American Vampire, Vol. 3(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 3 Buy
2012 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four POoBHotYB / 4 Buy
2012 American Vampire, Vol. 4(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 4 Buy
2012 The Night Has Come(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) POoTSGNB / 6 Buy
2012 The Wind Through the Keyhole POoTDTB / 8 Buy
2012 The Complete Concordance(With: Robin Furth) POoTDTB / 9 Buy
2012 Road Rage(With: Joe Hill,Richard Matheson,Chris Ryall) POoSSC / 18 Buy
2012 Batman and Robin have an Altercation POoSS / 76 Buy
2012 Ghost Brothers of Darkland County POoSS / 77 Buy
2012 Throttle(With: Joe Hill) POoSS / 78 Buy
2012 Stephen King's Battleground POoSS / 79 Buy
2012 A Face in the Crowd(With: Stewart O'Nan) POoSS / 80 Buy
2012 Big Driver POoSS / 81 Buy
2012 In the Tall Grass(With: Joe Hill) POoSS / 82 Buy
2013 Ghost Brothers of Darkland County(With: T. Bone Burnett) POoP / 2 Buy
2013 The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem POoGN / 3 Buy
2013 Doctor Sleep POoTSB / 3 Buy
2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 4 Buy
2013 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five POoBHotYB / 5 Buy
2013 Guns POoNB / 8 Buy
2013 Joyland POoSN / 38 Buy
2013 Afterlife POoSS / 83 Buy
2013 Summer Thunder POoSS / 84 Buy
2014 Mr. Mercedes POoHGB / 1 Buy
2014 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 5 Buy
2014 American Vampire Vol. 5(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 5 Buy
2014 American Vampire, Vol. 6(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 6 Buy
2014 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six POoBHotYB / 6 Buy
2014 Revival POoSN / 39 Buy
2014 That Bus Is Another World POoSS / 85 Buy
2014 A Good Marriage POoSS / 86 Buy
2015 Finders Keepers POoBHTB / 2 Buy
2015 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 6 Buy
2015 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven POoBHotYB / 7 Buy
2015 American Vampire, Vol. 7(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 7 Buy
2015 American Vampire Vol. 8(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 8 Buy
2015 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams POoSSC / 19 Buy
2015 Mister Yummy POoSS / 87 Buy
2015 A Death POoSS / 88 Buy
2015 Drunken Fireworks POoSS / 89 Buy
2015 Bad Little Kid POoSS / 90 Buy
2016 Charlie the Choo-Choo POoBEPB / 1 Buy
2016 Charlie the Choo-Choo(As: Beryl Evans) POoCB / 1 Buy
2016 End of Watch POoHGB / 3 Buy
2016 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 7 Buy
2016 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight POoBHotYB / 8 Buy
2016 Hearts in Suspension POoNB / 9 Buy
2016 Cookie Jar POoSS / 91 Buy
2017 Gwendy's Button Box(With: Richard T. Chizmar) POoTBBB / 1 Buy
2017 The Sailor(By: Robin Furth) POoTDTBB / 6 Buy
2017 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 8 Buy
2017 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine POoBHotYB / 9 Buy
2017 Sleeping Beauties(With: Owen King) POoSN / 40 Buy
2018 The Outsider POoHGB / 4 Buy
2018 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 9 Buy
2018 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten POoBHotYB / 10 Buy
2018 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction POoBHotYB / 11 Buy
2018 Laurie POoSS / 92 Buy
2018 Obits POoSS / 93 Buy
2018 Low Men In Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis) POoSS / 94 Buy
2018 The Turbulence Expert POoSS / 95 Buy
2018 Elevation POoSS / 96 Buy
2019 The Journey Begins POoTDTTGB / 1 Buy
2019 Gwendy's Magic Feather(By: Richard T. Chizmar) POoTBBB / 2 Buy
2019 The Little Sisters of Eluria POoTDTTGB / 2 Buy
2019 The Battle of Tull POoTDTTGB / 3 Buy
2019 The Way Station POoTDTTGB / 4 Buy
2019 The Man in Black POoTDTTGB / 5 Buy
2019 Last Shots POoTDTTGB / 6 Buy
2019 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven POoBHotYB / 12 Buy
2019 The Institute POoSN / 41 Buy
2019 Squad D POoSS / 97 Buy
2020 The Prisoner POoTDTTDotTB / 1 Buy
2020 House of Cards POoTDTTDotTB / 2 Buy
2020 If It Bleeds POoTOB / 2 Buy
2020 Lady of Shadows POoTDTTDotTB / 3 Buy
2020 Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 POoGN / 4 Buy
2020 Bitter Medicine POoTDTTDotTB / 4 Buy
2020 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition POoTYBDF&HB / 10 Buy
2020 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 POoTYBDF&HB / 11 Buy
2020 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve POoBHotYB / 13 Buy
2020 The Fifth Step POoSS / 98 Buy
2020 Rat POoSS / 99 Buy
2020 On Slide Inn Road POoSS / 100 Buy
2021 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 POoTYBDF&HB / 12 Buy
2021 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen POoBHotYB / 14 Buy
2021 Later POoSN / 42 Buy
2021 Billy Summers POoSN / 43 Buy
2021 Red Screen POoSS / 101 Buy
2021 Willie the Weirdo / Willie le Zinzin POoSS / 102 Buy
2022 Gwendy's Final Task(With: Richard T. Chizmar) POoTBBB / 3 Buy
2022 American Vampire 1976(By: Scott Snyder) POoAVB / 9 Buy
2022 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 POoTYBDF&HB / 13 Buy
2022 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen POoBHotYB / 15 Buy
2022 Fairy Tale POoSN / 44 Buy
2022 Finn POoSS / 103 Buy
2023 The Drawing of the Three Omnibus(By: Robin Furth) POoTDTTDotTB / 5 Buy
2023 Holly POoHGB / 6 Buy
2023 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 POoTYBDF&HB / 14 Buy
2023 Rattlesnakes POoSS / 104 Buy
2024 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 POoTYBDF&HB / 15 Buy
2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen POoBHotYB / 16 Buy
2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen POoBHotYB / 17 Buy
2024 You Like It Darker POoSSC / 21 Buy
2025 Hansel and Gretel(With: Maurice Sendak) POoCB / 2 Buy
2025 Never Flinch POoHGB / 7 Buy
2025 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen POoBHotYB / 18 Buy
2025 The Life of Chuck POoSN / 45 Buy
2026 Other Worlds Than These POoTB / 3 Buy

Stephen King Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 The Gunslinger 1982 Buy
02 The Drawing of the Three 1987 Buy
03 The Waste Lands 1991 Buy
04 Wizard and Glass 1997 Buy
05 Wolves of the Calla 2003 Buy
06 Song of Susannah 2004 Buy
07 The Dark Tower 2004 Buy
08 The Wind Through the Keyhole 2012 Buy
09 The Complete Concordance(With: Robin Furth) 2012 Buy
01 The Gunslinger Born(By: Robin Furth,Peter David) 2007 Buy
02 The Long Road Home(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2008 Buy
03 Treachery(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2009 Buy
04 The Fall of Gilead(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2009 Buy
05 Battle of Jericho Hill(With: Robin Furth,Peter David) 2010 Buy
06 The Sailor(By: Robin Furth) 2017 Buy
01 American Vampire, Vol. 1(With: Scott Snyder) 2010 Buy
02 American Vampire, Vol. 2(By: Scott Snyder) 2011 Buy
03 American Vampire, Vol. 3(By: Scott Snyder) 2012 Buy
04 American Vampire, Vol. 4(By: Scott Snyder) 2012 Buy
05 American Vampire Vol. 5(By: Scott Snyder) 2014 Buy
06 American Vampire, Vol. 6(By: Scott Snyder) 2014 Buy
07 American Vampire, Vol. 7(By: Scott Snyder) 2015 Buy
08 American Vampire Vol. 8(By: Scott Snyder) 2015 Buy
09 American Vampire 1976(By: Scott Snyder) 2022 Buy
01 Transgressions(With: Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005 Buy
02 Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006 Buy
03 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006 Buy
04 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006 Buy
Graphic Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1982-2020
01 Creepshow 1982 Buy
02 The Talisman: Road of Trials(With: Peter Straub,Tony Shasteen) 2009 Buy
03 The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem 2013 Buy
04 Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 2020 Buy
01 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010 Buy
02 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011 Buy
03 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012 Buy
04 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013 Buy
05 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014 Buy
06 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015 Buy
07 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016 Buy
08 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017 Buy
09 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018 Buy
10 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020 Buy
11 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020 Buy
12 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021 Buy
13 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022 Buy
14 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023 Buy
15 The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 45 books / 1974-2025
01 Carrie 1974 Buy
02 'Salem's Lot 1975 Buy
03 Rage(As: Richard Bachman) 1977 Buy
04 The Stand 1978 Buy
05 The Long Walk(As: Richard Bachman) 1979 Buy
06 The Dead Zone 1979 Buy
07 Firestarter 1980 Buy
08 Roadwork(As: Richard Bachman) 1981 Buy
09 Cujo 1981 Buy
10 The Running Man(As: Richard Bachman) 1982 Buy
11 Christine 1983 Buy
12 Pet Sematary 1983 Buy
13 Thinner(As: Richard Bachman) 1984 Buy
14 It 1986 Buy
15 The Eyes of the Dragon 1987 Buy
16 Misery 1987 Buy
17 The Tommyknockers 1987 Buy
18 One Past Midnight: The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) 1989 Buy
19 The Dark Half 1989 Buy
20 Needful Things 1991 Buy
21 Gerald's Game 1992 Buy
22 Dolores Claiborne 1992 Buy
23 Insomnia 1994 Buy
24 Rose Madder 1995 Buy
25 Desperation 1996 Buy
26 The Regulators(As: Richard Bachman) 1996 Buy
27 Bag of Bones 1998 Buy
28 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 1999 Buy
29 Dreamcatcher 2001 Buy
30 From a Buick 8 2002 Buy
31 The Colorado Kid 2005 Buy
32 Cell 2006 Buy
33 Lisey's Story 2006 Buy
34 Blaze(As: Richard Bachman) 2007 Buy
35 Duma Key 2008 Buy
36 Under the Dome 2009 Buy
37 11/22/63 2011 Buy
38 Joyland 2013 Buy
39 Revival 2014 Buy
40 Sleeping Beauties(With: Owen King) 2017 Buy
41 The Institute 2019 Buy
42 Later 2021 Buy
43 Billy Summers 2021 Buy
44 Fairy Tale 2022 Buy
45 The Life of Chuck 2025 Buy
01 Stephen King's Danse Macabre 1981 Buy
02 Danse Macabre 1981 Buy
03 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) 1988 Buy
04 Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques 1988 Buy
05 Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) 1989 Buy
06 On Writing 1999 Buy
07 Faithful 2004 Buy
08 Guns 2013 Buy
09 Hearts in Suspension 2016 Buy
01 The Journey Begins 2019 Buy
02 The Little Sisters of Eluria 2019 Buy
03 The Battle of Tull 2019 Buy
04 The Way Station 2019 Buy
05 The Man in Black 2019 Buy
06 Last Shots 2019 Buy
Plays Books in Reading Order 2 books / 1999-2013
01 Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay 1999 Buy
02 Ghost Brothers of Darkland County(With: T. Bone Burnett) 2013 Buy
Legends Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1998-1999
01 Legends(With: Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998 Buy
02 Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998 Buy
03 Legends 3(By: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999 Buy
Green Mile Books in Reading Order 6 books / 1996-1996
01 The Two Dead Girls 1996 Buy
02 The Mouse on the Mile 1996 Buy
03 Coffey's Hands 1996 Buy
04 Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix 1996 Buy
05 The Night Journey 1996 Buy
06 Coffey on the Mile 1996 Buy
01 The Blue Air Compressor 1971 Buy
02 One for the Road 1977 Buy
03 The Ledge 1977 Buy
04 I Am the Doorway 1978 Buy
05 Quitters, Inc. 1978 Buy
06 The Mangler 1978 Buy
07 I Know What You Need 1978 Buy
08 The Woman in the Room 1978 Buy
09 The Man Who Loved Flowers 1978 Buy
10 Night Surf 1978 Buy
11 Jerusalem's Lot 1978 Buy
12 The Crate 1979 Buy
13 Crouch End 1980 Buy
14 The Mist 1980 Buy
15 The Monkey 1980 Buy
16 The Jaunt 1981 Buy
17 Do the Dead Sing? 1981 Buy
18 The Body 1982 Buy
19 The Shawshank Redemption 1982 Buy
20 Uncle Otto's Truck 1983 Buy
21 Word Processor of the Gods 1983 Buy
22 Apt Pupil 1983 Buy
23 Cycle of the Werewolf 1983 Buy
24 Silver Bullet 1983 Buy
25 The Breathing Method 1984 Buy
26 The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet 1984 Buy
27 The Raft 1985 Buy
28 For the Birds 1986 Buy
29 Mrs. Todd's Shortcut 1986 Buy
30 The End of the Whole Mess 1986 Buy
31 Trucks 1987 Buy
32 The Last Rung on the Ladder 1987 Buy
33 The Night Flier 1988 Buy
34 Home delivery 1989 Buy
35 Dolan's Cadillac 1989 Buy
36 My Pretty Pony 1989 Buy
37 The Langoliers 1989 Buy
38 Sneakers 1989 Buy
39 The Library Policeman 1990 Buy
40 The Sun Dog 1990 Buy
41 Secret Window, Secret Garden 1991 Buy
42 Three Carols 1991 Buy
43 The Ten O'Clock People 1993 Buy
44 Children of the Corn 1993 Buy
45 Gray Matter 1993 Buy
46 The Man in the Black Suit 1994 Buy
47 Umney's Last Case 1995 Buy
48 The Lawnmower Man 1995 Buy
49 Everything's Eventual 1997 Buy
50 1408 1997 Buy
51 Riding the Bullet 2000 Buy
52 Zenith Rising / The Plant 2000 Buy
53 LT's Theory of Pets 2001 Buy
54 Autopsy Room Four 2002 Buy
55 Lisey and the Madman 2004 Buy
56 The Things They Left Behind 2005 Buy
57 Stationary Bike 2006 Buy
58 The Road Virus Heads North 2006 Buy
59 Mute 2007 Buy
60 Ayana 2007 Buy
61 Harvey's Dream 2008 Buy
62 N 2008 Buy
63 The Gingerbread Girl 2008 Buy
64 UR 2009 Buy
65 Morality 2009 Buy
66 The Bone Church 2009 Buy
67 Premium Harmony 2009 Buy
68 1922 2010 Buy
69 Blockade Billy 2010 Buy
70 Tommy 2010 Buy
71 Mile 81 2011 Buy
72 The Little Green God of Agony 2011 Buy
73 Under the Weather / ’ la dure 2011 Buy
74 Herman Wouk Is Still Alive 2011 Buy
75 The Dune 2011 Buy
76 Batman and Robin have an Altercation 2012 Buy
77 Ghost Brothers of Darkland County 2012 Buy
78 Throttle(With: Joe Hill) 2012 Buy
79 Stephen King's Battleground 2012 Buy
80 A Face in the Crowd(With: Stewart O'Nan) 2012 Buy
81 Big Driver 2012 Buy
82 In the Tall Grass(With: Joe Hill) 2012 Buy
83 Afterlife 2013 Buy
84 Summer Thunder 2013 Buy
85 That Bus Is Another World 2014 Buy
86 A Good Marriage 2014 Buy
87 Mister Yummy 2015 Buy
88 A Death 2015 Buy
89 Drunken Fireworks 2015 Buy
90 Bad Little Kid 2015 Buy
91 Cookie Jar 2016 Buy
92 Laurie 2018 Buy
93 Obits 2018 Buy
94 Low Men In Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis) 2018 Buy
95 The Turbulence Expert 2018 Buy
96 Elevation 2018 Buy
97 Squad D 2019 Buy
98 The Fifth Step 2020 Buy
99 Rat 2020 Buy
100 On Slide Inn Road 2020 Buy
101 Red Screen 2021 Buy
102 Willie the Weirdo / Willie le Zinzin 2021 Buy
103 Finn 2022 Buy
104 Rattlesnakes 2023 Buy
Talisman Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1984-2026
01 The Talisman 1984 Buy
02 Black House 2001 Buy
03 Other Worlds Than These 2026 Buy
01 Night Shift 1978 Buy
02 Different Seasons 1982 Buy
03 Skeleton Crew 1985 Buy
04 Four Past Midnight 1990 Buy
05 Nightmares and Dreamscapes 1993 Buy
06 The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales 1994 Buy
07 The Green Mile 1997 Buy
08 Six Stories 1997 Buy
09 Hearts in Atlantis 1999 Buy
10 Graveyard Shift: and Other Stories from Night Shift 1999 Buy
11 Blood and Smoke 1999 Buy
12 Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing 2000 Buy
13 Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales 2002 Buy
14 Just After Sunset 2008 Buy
15 Stephen King Goes to the Movies 2009 Buy
16 In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Caf’ 2010 Buy
17 Full Dark, No Stars 2010 Buy
18 Road Rage(With: Joe Hill,Richard Matheson,Chris Ryall) 2012 Buy
19 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 2015 Buy
21 You Like It Darker 2024 Buy
Children's Books in Reading Order 2 books / 2016-2025
01 Charlie the Choo-Choo(As: Beryl Evans) 2016 Buy
02 Hansel and Gretel(With: Maurice Sendak) 2025 Buy
01 Before the Play 1977 Buy
02 The Shining 1977 Buy
03 Doctor Sleep 2013 Buy
01 Gwendy's Button Box(With: Richard T. Chizmar) 2017 Buy
02 Gwendy's Magic Feather(By: Richard T. Chizmar) 2019 Buy
03 Gwendy's Final Task(With: Richard T. Chizmar) 2022 Buy
02 Finders Keepers 2015 Buy
01 The Prisoner 2020 Buy
02 House of Cards 2020 Buy
03 Lady of Shadows 2020 Buy
04 Bitter Medicine 2020 Buy
05 The Drawing of the Three Omnibus(By: Robin Furth) 2023 Buy
01 Mr. Mercedes 2014 Buy
03 End of Watch 2016 Buy
04 The Outsider 2018 Buy
06 Holly 2023 Buy
07 Never Flinch 2025 Buy
01 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009 Buy
02 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010 Buy
03 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011 Buy
04 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012 Buy
05 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013 Buy
06 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014 Buy
07 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015 Buy
08 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016 Buy
09 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017 Buy
10 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018 Buy
11 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018 Buy
12 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019 Buy
13 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020 Buy
14 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021 Buy
15 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022 Buy
16 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024 Buy
17 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024 Buy
18 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025 Buy
02 If It Bleeds 2020 Buy
01 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987 Buy
02 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990 Buy
03 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991 Buy
01 Charlie the Choo-Choo 2016 Buy
01 Captain Trips(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2009 Buy
02 American Nightmares(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2009 Buy
03 Hardcases(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2010 Buy
04 Soul Survivors(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2010 Buy
05 No Man's Land(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2011 Buy
06 The Night Has Come(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2012 Buy
01 The Secretary of Dreams 2006 Buy
02 The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 2010 Buy

Where to start with Stephen King

What is the best order to read Stephen King books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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