Below is a list of stephen kings books in order of when they were originally published. The dark tower the gunslinger by stephen king and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. September 21, 1947 is the bestselling american author of 50 horror, suspsense, and science fictionfantasy novels. As the author of more than 60 globally bestselling books, the mind behind 50 of the scariest scary movies, and both a national medal of honor and national book foundation medal recipient, its an undisputed fact that stephen king is a master of horror fiction. The artwork from pet sematary, without doubt one of the best stephen king books of all time.
He has also written nearly two hundred short stories and published a series of comics called the gunslinger born, based on his the dark tower series. Carrie 1974 historical essay richards thoughts guest essay by ray garton richards followup salems lot 1975 historical essay richards thoughts guest essay by christopher golden the shining. His recent work includes the institute, elevation, the outsider, sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, and the bill hodges trilogy. However, many novels in the list of stephen king books bear a connection to the dark tower universe and to each other, although they are completely separate stories you can read separately. Each is accompanied by a synopsis directly from the stephen king web presence. The best stephen king novels 12 mustread stephen king books. Heres some background on the mainebased writer and a bibliography, featuring details about some of his most notable works. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors of the modern age whose last name isnt patterson. Stephen king books in chronological order stephen king.
We attempt to stock unique king collectible titles in hardcover, gift editions, signed limited and lettered editions. All stephen king tv series, miniseries, tv movies ranked. The 10 best stephen king books monsters and critics. Stephen king has transcended anything we could muster up to write about him in 2019. Stephen king creates a list of his 10 favorite novels.
He has been the inspiration for, and in many ways a mentor to, dozens of horror authors. Stephen king wrote this book based on a fictional book in his dark tower series. He has been publishing horror novels steadily since the release of carrie in 1974, alongside countless shorts stores and novellas, and at this point it is impossible to imagine the modern horror genre with out him. Author stephen king, the undisputed legend of modern genre. Including the two that will become movies this year. A list of stephen kings novels, organized alphabetically. Stephen king book list welcome to stephen king book list. Stephen king is truly a legend of the horror genre. Stephen king audio books, best sellers, author bio. But however you know him, from the films or his books, there is little doubt that stephen is the king at what he does. The collector the best site for info on limited edition stephen king available at both and. Stephen king on horrors of trump and coronavirus this article is more than 1 month old years after his pandemic novel, bestselling author tells.
Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best looking back over more than 40 years worth of the writers work. The best site on the net for info on rare stephen king books. This makes picking the best stephen king books a daunting challenge. Theres a reason it tops this list of stephen kings scariest books.
But you dont have to be a dark tower fan to find value in it. Both mr mercedes and end of watch received the goodreads choice award for the best mystery and thriller of 2014. Tv has been a favorite home to adaptations of stephen king books and short stories into series, miniseries, and tv movies since 1979 tv series salems lot. Stephen king, a man apparently often asked for tophowevermany lists see the related posts below for more examples, acknowledges this truth in his approach to the task, as when he drew up this toptenfavoritebooks list for goodreads. Stephen king is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Stephen kings 10 scariest books, because sleeping is.
Speaking about stephen king books, his only established cycle series is the dark tower consisting of seven main novels and two additional books. So, with the newest release of one of his novels in movie form, the mist, i present you with the top fifteen of his novels. This bestselling novelist has published more than 100 novels, nonfiction books, short stories, novellas, poems and screenplays, so it can be hard to keep track of everything that hes written. To the constant readers, though, its a definite musthave. Stephen king and i are about the same age and probably dig books in. Harrigans phone, the life of chuck, rat and the title story if it bleeds each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places. Stephen king books download free books online 8freebooks. The titular creature awakens every 27 years to feed off. Stephen king is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. I will admit, the pictures are a little off a little stephen king for a picture book. An introduction to the stephen king library from his uk editor dear reader, as you may know, stephen king is one of the worlds bestselling writers ever and there is a very good reason for that. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. Stephen kings first true novel was also one of his best known works, carrie, which was published in 1974.
His first crime thriller featuring bill hodges, mr mercedes, won the edgar award for best novel and was shortlisted for the cwa gold dagger award. Stephen kings christine bookchristine by stephen kingstephen king booksfiction horror booksstephen king collectibleschristine novel revivalshopvintage 5 out of 5. Whether developed for television or straighttovideo remember video tapes. Here is the list of stephen kings books were reading as part of stephen king revisited, along with links to the essays and other content we have posted for each book. Stephen king books list of books by author stephen king. When stephen king published the unexpurgated edition of his postapocalyptic masterpiece in 1990 with some 300 pages of material edited back in doubleday created a signed, limited edition of 1,250 copies bound in leather with gold and red gilt lettering on the front, gilt edging on the pages, a sewnin satin bookmark, a paper wrapper and. I read them back in the 60s and 70s when i was in my impressionable teens and 20s.