Hello bookworms!!
Todays post is mostly for my benefit but hopefully it might help some of y’all as well. Before I go any further I have to say that Janel from Keeper of Pages gets all the credit for this list. She is the one who put in all the hard work to put this list together. Thank you for doing this Janel because I never would have had the patience to do it myself!!
So today I am just going to be listing all of the books that Stephen King has written in chronological order and where I can I will include my review for the book as well as when I read them. Again if it wasn’t for Janel and the #KeeperofKing group on Instagram I don’t think I would have read as many of his books as I have. Every month we read one of his books and have a discussion on them. While I haven’t loved all of his books I continue to enjoy participating in this little reading group which is why I keep reading his books. Now don’t get me wrong I have read some books by him that I loved he just tends to be hit or miss for me. If I don’t have a review for a book I will make the text bold. Anyways lets get to the list.
- Carrie – 1974 (read April 2019)
- Salem’s Lot – 1975 (read July 2019)
- The Shining – 1977 (read March 2018)
- Rage – 1977 (read March 2022)
- The Stand – 1978 (read December 2021)
- The Long Walk – 1979 (read May 2020)
- The Dead Zone – 1979 (read January 2021)
- Firestarter – 1980 (March 2019)
- Roadwork – 1981 (read May 2020)
- Cujo– 1981 (read October 2020)
- The Running Man – 1982 (read May 2020)
- The Gunslinger – 1982 (read January 2020)
- Christine – 1983 (read August 2020)
- Pet Sematary – 1983 (read January 2019)
- Cycle Of The Werewolf – 1983 (read December 2021)
- The Talisman – 1984
- Thinner – 1984 read October 2021)
- It – 1986 (read July 2018)
- The Eyes Of The Dragon – 1987
- The Drawing Of The Three – 1987 (read January 2020)
- Misery – 1987 (read September 2018)
- The Tommyknockers – 1987 (read April 2021)
- The Dark Half – 1989 (read June 2021)
- The Waste Lands – 1991(read February 2020)
- Needful Things – 1991 Need to Read
- Gerald’s Game – 1992 Need to Read
- Dolores Claiborne – 1992 Need to Read
- Insomnia – 1994
- Rose Madder – 1995 (read July 2021)
- The Green Mile – 1996 (read September 2019)
- Desperation – 1996
- The Regulators – 1996
- Wizard And Glass – 1997 (read July 2020)
- Bag Of Bones – 1998 (read August 2021)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – 1999
- Dreamcatcher – 2001
- Black House – 2001
- From A Buick 8 – 2002
- Wolves Of The Calla – 2003 (read October 2020)
- Song Of Susannah – 2004 (read December 2020)
- The Dark Tower – 2004 (read February 2021)
- The Colorado Kid – 2005 (read July 2019)
- Cell – 2006
- Lisey’s Story – 2006 (read May 2021)
- Blaze – 2007
- Duma Key – 2008 (read February 2019)
- Under The Dome – 2009 Need to Read
- 11/22/63 – 2011 Need to Read
- The Wind Through The Keyhole – 2012 (read July 2020)
- Joyland – 2013 (read December 2018)
- Doctor Sleep – 2013 (read December 2019)
- Mr Mercedes – 2014 Need to Read
- Revival – 2014
- Finders Keepers – 2015 Need to Read
- End Of Watch – 2016 Need to Read
- Gwendy’s Button Box – 2017
- Sleeping Beauties – 2017 Need to Read
- The Outsider – 2018 (read November 2019)
- Elevation – 2018 (read December 2019)
- The Institute – 2019 (read October 2019)
- Later – 2021 (read March 2021)
- Billy Summers – 2021 (read January 2022)
- Red Screen – 2021 (read September 2021)
Short Story Collections
- Night Shift
- Different Seasons (read March 2022)
- Skeleton Crew
- Four Past Midnight
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes
- Hearts in Atlantis
- Everything’s Eventual
- Just After Sunset
- Full Dark, No Stars (read September 2021)
- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- If It Bleeds – (read June 2020)
Non-Fiction
- Danse Macabre (DNFed November 2021)
- Nightmares in the Sky
- On Writing: A memoir of the craft (read November 2020)
- Secret Windows: Essays
- Faithful
That didn’t take me as long as I thought it would. I will update this post as I read more books and I will have it linked at the top of my blog so it’s easy to find. The ones where I have written Need to read are just ones that the #KeeperofKing group have already read that I haven’t so I would like to try and fit them in at some point. Anyways that’s all I have for this post. Like I said it’s mostly just for me but maybe it will help y’all as well.
That’s amazing and you have so many books. It’s shame I haven’t read any so far and now I want to. Which one you recommend to start with?
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I would have read near as many as I have if it wasn’t for Janel and the #KeeperofKing group on Instagram. That’s so hard because everyone has different tastes. A few of my favorites are Lisey’s Story, Misery, The Green Mile & Salem’s Lot.
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Okay I’ll check them. thanks!
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You’re welcome. I hope you find some you enjoy. Lisey’s Story & Misery are probably my favorites out of all the ones I’ve read and enjoyed as well as The Green Mile.
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This is super useful useful!! Thanks for sharing Misty!! Will definitely be referring back to this!!
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Glad it was useful for you!! I’m so glad Janel created this list because it has been very useful for me as well!!
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Wow – what a body of work! And it makes me realize how behind I am on his books.
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He has written a lot of books!! A few years ago I had only read a few of his books. The reading group I’m in has helped me a lot to continue reading his books. I might actually read all of them eventually.
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Wow, he has been writing for so long. It’s amazing how many you’ve read ! I had a Stephen King phase in high school and the first one I read was From A Buick 8 (It’s meh you might want to save that one for last.).
I’ve only read Cell, Gunslinger 1-3, Firestarter, The Shining, Everything Is Eventual, Four Past Midnight and Night Shift.
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Yeah he has been writing for a long time!! It all because of the reading group I’m in on Instagram. If it wasn’t for them I probably wouldn’t have read so many.
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