
Back in 2017, I picked up my first Stephen King book.
Actually, that’s a lie.
Let’s go back to the days when I would go to the library with my mom, and I would be one of those overly ambitious readers, bringing home books I knew I was never going to finish.
I remember bringing home books like Thinner and Needful Things and getting through maybe half of them, but then I’d lose interest and not finish reading them.
I had great goals to read Stephen King, but he wasn’t for me.
That is until It came to theatres. I had never seen the original Tim Currie version of the movie, but the new version looked really good. I love going to the movies alone and tasked myself with reading the book before seeing the movie.
That book was 1,166 pages, and I absolutely ate it up. It was fantastic!
Since then, I’ve decided I want to read as many Stephen King books as possible, and while I haven’t been reading them back to back, sometimes only reading a couple in a year, I’m really enjoying the challenge.
Here’s where I’ll document my Stephen King reading.
Note: I didn’t include some of the nonfiction titles, any standalone short stories, or any anthologies.

Stephen King books
In order of publication date.
Carrie (1974)‘Salem’s Lot (1975)The Shining (1977)- Rage (1977)
Night Shift (1978)The Long Walk (1979)- The Dead Zone (1979)
- Firestarter (1980)
- Roadwork (1981)
- Cujo (1981)
- The Running Man (1982)
- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
- Different Seasons (1982)
- Christine (1983)
Pet Semetary (1983)- Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
- The Talisman (1984)
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
Thinner (1984)- Skeleton Crew (1985)
It (1986)- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
Misery (1987)- The Tommyknockers (1987)
- 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)
- Bag of Bones (1998)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
- Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
On Writing (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)- Cell (2006)
- Lisey’s Story (2006)
- Blaze (2007)
- Duma Key (2008)
- Just After Sunset (2008)
- Under the Dome (2009)
Full Dark, No Stars (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)
Gwendy’s Button Box (2017)Sleeping Beauties (2017)The Outsider (2018)Elevation (2018)- The Institute (2019)
- Gwendy’s Magic Feather (2019) (not written by Stephen King, but it is part of the trilogy)
- If It Bleeds (2020)
- Later (2021)
- Billy Summers (2021)
- Gwendy’s Final Task (2022)
- Fairy Tale (2022)
- Holly (2023)