Stephen King Books In Order
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Mr. Mercedes | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Finders Keepers | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
End of Watch | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Button Box Books
Gwendy's Button Box | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gwendy's Magic Feather | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gwendy's Final Task | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower Books
The Gunslinger | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Drawing of the Three | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Waste Lands | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wizard and Glass | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wolves of the Calla | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Song of Susannah | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dark Tower | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wind Through the Keyhole | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: Beginnings Books
The Gunslinger Born | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Long Road Home | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Treachery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fall of Gilead | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Battle of Jericho Hill | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sailor | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Books
The Prisoner | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
House of Cards | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lady of Shadows | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bitter Medicine | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Books
The Journey Begins | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Little Sisters of Eluria | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Battle of Tull | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Way Station | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man in Black | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Last Shots | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Green Mile Books
The Two Dead Girls | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mouse on the Mile | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Coffey's Hands | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Night Journey | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Coffey on the Mile | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Outsider Books
The Outsider | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
If It Bleeds | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Secretary of Dreams Books
The Secretary of Dreams | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Shining Books
The Shining | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Doctor Sleep | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Talisman Books
The Talisman | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black House | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Night Shift | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Different Seasons | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Skeleton Crew | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Four Past Midnight | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nightmares and Dreamscapes | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Green Mile | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Six Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hearts in Atlantis | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Graveyard Shift: and Other Stories from Night Shift | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood and Smoke | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Just After Sunset | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
N | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stephen King Goes to the Movies | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Full Dark, No Stars | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Road Rage | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
If It Bleeds | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Like It Darker | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
If It Bleeds is a standalone short story sequel to The Outsider. |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Creepshow | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Talisman: Road of Trials | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Stephen King's Danse Macabre | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Danse Macabre | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
On Writing | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Faithful | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Guns | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hearts in Suspension | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Plays
Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Stand: Graphic Novels Books
Captain Trips | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Nightmares | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hardcases | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Soul Survivors | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
No Man's Land | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Night Has Come | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Beryl Evans Picture Books
Charlie the Choo-Choo | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of American Vampire Books
American Vampire, Vol. 1 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire, Vol. 2 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire, Vol. 3 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire, Vol. 4 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire Vol. 5 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire, Vol. 6 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire, Vol. 7 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire Vol. 8 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Vampire 1976 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Club Destiny Books
Conviction | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Temptation | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Addicted | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Seduction | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Infatuation | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Captivated | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Devotion | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Perception | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Entrusted | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Adored | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Distraction | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Forevermore | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Tales of Unknown Horror | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Finest Fantasy | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
More Tales of Unknown Horror | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Terrors II | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadows 4 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fantasy Annual III | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Giant Book Of Horror Stories | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fantasy Annual IV | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Modern Masters of Horror | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Realms of Darkness | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Horrors | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dark Descent | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Duel — Horror Stories of the Road | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Treasury of American Horror Stories | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Horror Factor 7 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Prime Evil | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Visions | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Book of the Dead | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of Modern Horror | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Voices: No. 1 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Horrorstory | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Midnight Graffiti | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Young Blood | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mid-life Confidential | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Vampire Omnibus | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Space Movies | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Horror Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Love | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Ninth Annual Collection | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Gothic Tales | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood Thirst | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Robert Bloch's Psychos | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of the Best | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Vintage Science Fiction | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Technohorror: Inventions in Terror | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Masques | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Baseball: a Literary Anthology | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Shadow of the Master | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Ghost Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Campfire Collection | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Living Dead | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Big Book of NECON | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shivers VI | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Book of Horrors | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lightspeed: Year One | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rage Against the Night | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shivers VII | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Turn Down the Lights | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Woman: An Anthology | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Field of Fantasies | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chiral Mad 3 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Six Scary Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Grave Predictions | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Sunlight or In Shadow | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Detours | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You, Human | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flight or Fright | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
It Came From The Garage!: An Anthology of Automotive Horror | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Tides | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, Vol II | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chiral Mad 5 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Qualia Nous: Vol. 2 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stephen King Biography:
Stephen King is a prolific American author who is known for his suspense and fantasy novels. King has written several novels since his first short story sale in 1967 that have become pop cultural signposts. Every Stephen King reader has a favorite tale or series, from Christine to Cujo.
His works have sold more than 350 million copies. Many of these have been adapted into movies or series for television. He has written many books, including non-fiction and over 200 short stories. King also has an alias named Richard Bachman. Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He has an older brother, David. His parents Donald and Nellie Ruth divorced when he was young.
When he was eleven they moved from Indiana to Durham, Maine. King went to elementary school in Durham and graduated in 1966 from Lisbon Falls High School. He attended the University of Maine at Orono where he wrote for the school’s newspaper.
He also was active in Student Senate and supported the anti-war movement at UMO. He graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of the Arts in English. His daughter Naomi Rose was born the same year. Following graduation, King failed a draft board examination for service and was not drafted to participate in the War. He married Tabitha King in 1971.
He had met Tabitha when they were students in the library stacks where they both worked. King worked as an industrial laundry laborer as a result of not being able to find a teaching position right away. He sold several short stories to magazines and finally found a job teaching English at Hampden Academy in the fall of 1971. He continued to write in his spare time while teaching.
Stephen King’s first novel Carrie was accepted for publication in 1973 by Doubleday & Co. In between the Kings moved to southern Maine due to the poor health of Stephen’s mother. King wrote what would become Salem’s Lot while the family stayed at the summer cottage.
His mother died the same year from cancer at the age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. The Kings moved to Colorado for what would ultimately be a year, during which time Stephen King wrote The Shining, which is set in the same state.
Carrie was made in to a feature film starring Sissy Spacek as an outcast high school girl who discovers she has mental powers. It is being made into a 2013 revision starring Chloe Moretz. The Shining was made into a full-length movie in 1980 starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for Best Actor for the role.
The Kings bought a home in western Maine near the lakes and returned there to live for some time. During this period, King wrote The Stand, set in Colorado, and The Dead Zone. The Shining was published in 1977 and The Stand was published the next year.
After spending some time in England, the Kings returned to Maine and bought a house in Center Lovell. They then moved closer to Bangor for a position Stephen had been offered at the University of Maine Orono teaching Creative Writing. In 1979 they returned to Center Lovell, then bought a home in Bangor. King wrote a number of additional novels from 1977 to 1980 as well.
He finished Rage, Night Shift, a collection of stories, The Long Walk, and Firestarter. Cujo was published in 1981. The book would be made into a feature-length film the same year that gave hundreds of children nightmares about a terrifying, crazed rabid dog.
King has little to no memory of writing it. It was during this time period that King’s family staged an intervention for his drug and alcohol addiction. Confronted with the numerous substances he abused, King quit all drugs and alcohol in the late 1980s. He debuted as a director with an adaptation of his short story “Trucks”, called “Maximum Overdrive”.
King published the first of his Dark Tower series in 1982. The novel was called The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. It would be followed by six more books through the years and is King’s own stated magnum opus. The story spans two worlds that are strangely connected and may be in more ways than one. Roland is The Gunslinger, a courageous man of honor with a storied past.
He is pursuing the mysterious Man In Black, and meets a child named Jake who hails from Manhattan. Part John Wayne, part archetype, the series is inspired by a number of things dear to King, including spaghetti western movies and Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai”.
The second story in the Dark Tower series is called The Drawing of the Three”. It was published in 1987. Roland is in a bind once again, waking up on a beach filled with hungry carnivorous lobsters. Three doors appear to him that are linked to different worlds.
They take him to meet different people. These include a dangerous sociopath named Jack Mort, a woman with multiple personalities named Odetta, and Eddie Dean, who is desperately addicted to heroin. Roland must navigate his way through the various timelines and worlds on Earth while just maybe being able to act in them to save a life.
Multiple Stephen King novels have been adapted for television or made into movies over the years. Along the way, they’ve become pop culture icons. Christine, a movie about a car come to life, was made in 1983. The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken, also came out that year about a man developing the power to see the future after waking from a coma.
Children of the Corn debuted in 1984 and led to an impressive seven sequels. Firestarter also became a feature film starring Drew Barrymore in 1984 and later became a tv series. Stand By Me was made into a movie in 1986 and enjoyed wide critical success.
King’s Running Man was made into a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a contestant in a dystopian television game show where the winners regain their freedom. Other notable movies include Pet Sematary, a spooky thriller about dead pets come to life, and 1990’s Misery, which Kathy Bates won an Oscar for as the kidnapper of a famous author.
Shawshank Redemption earned rave reviews and The Green Mile grossed over $135 million at the box office alone featuring Michael Clarke Douglas as a doomed inmate with special abilities.
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Mr. King,
I had no idea you had this many publications!
I’m keeping this list as there are many titles I had no idea you had written!!
Please keep writing – your novels are always spectacular!!!
Sincerely,
Shannon Dixon
Lake City, MN
I have two comments, one general, and one specific.
I’m using Your Stephen King section as an example. When you list anthologies for an author, does that mean that all of them have a story in them by the author? If so, are these stories also listed separately or did Stephen King acually write something for an anthology that was never published separatly. I’m asking this because my local library facility is not big on buying anthologies for some reason.
A specific question. You have a book listed for Patricia Cornwell called “Chasing the Ripper” with a date of 2014. I can find this book nowhere, and my local library says there is no such book. When you look at the list of an author’s books in one of her efforts, you never see this book listed. Can you give me any information on this effort of hers.
Thanking you for all you do for us readers.
For sure – happy to answer 🙂
In regards to anthologies – right now they’re a bit of a mess. Whether they edited it or wrote a story in it – they’re all added to that section. Occasionally, we may list the short story separately and link to the anthology but that is usually only if the short story won or was nominated for an award.
At one point I would love to organize that section better, list if they are an editor, or list the short story title within the anthology. It’s on my “wishlist”. Sadly, it seems most people just don’t care about anthologies ha, so it’s really low on the priority list.
Chasing the Ripper is available on Amazon. I just checked and see it on there. It’s an ebook only.
Thanks for the feedback much appreciated.
Was there a book written for Maximum Overdrive, if so, is it under another title.
Yep it was based off Trucks which is a short story inside Night Shift.
Can’t get enough love to pieces other than the short story in one of your collection books is there an actual book for 1408
Where’s ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’?
Under the dome parts 1 and 2 are two more of his books that can be added to the list
Hi Tiffany,
Under the Dome is just one novel, which is already on the list under the standalones. I know that some stores list both Part 1 & 2 – what the publishers did is take the original novel, and then split it into 2 later on for additional sales. However it was originally published as one big novel.