Stephen King Reading Challenge

Stephen King It

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.

  1. Carrie (1974)
  2. ‘Salem’s Lot (1975)
  3. The Shining (1977)
  4. Rage (1977)
  5. Night Shift (1978)
  6. The Long Walk (1979)
  7. The Dead Zone (1979)
  8. Firestarter (1980)
  9. Roadwork (1981)
  10. Cujo (1981)
  11. The Running Man (1982)
  12. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
  13. Different Seasons (1982)
  14. Christine (1983)
  15. Pet Semetary (1983)
  16. Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
  17. The Talisman (1984)
  18. The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
  19. Thinner (1984)
  20. Skeleton Crew (1985)
  21. It (1986)
  22. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
  23. Misery (1987)
  24. The Tommyknockers (1987)
  25. The Dark Half (1989)
  26. The Stand (1990)
  27. Four Past Midnight (1990)
  28. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
  29. Needful Things (1991)
  30. Gerald’s Game (1992)
  31. Dolores Claiborne (1992)
  32. Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
  33. Insomnia (1994)
  34. Rose Madder (1995)
  35. The Green Mile (1996)
  36. Desperation (1996)
  37. The Regulators (1996)
  38. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
  39. Bag of Bones (1998)
  40. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
  41. Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  42. On Writing (2000)
  43. Dreamcatcher (2001)
  44. Black House (2001)
  45. From a Buick 8 (2002)
  46. Everything’s Eventual (2002)
  47. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
  48. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
  49. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
  50. The Colorado Kid (2005)
  51. Cell (2006)
  52. Lisey’s Story (2006)
  53. Blaze (2007)
  54. Duma Key (2008)
  55. Just After Sunset (2008)
  56. Under the Dome (2009)
  57. Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
  58. 11/22/63 (2011)
  59. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
  60. Joyland (2013)
  61. Doctor Sleep (2013)
  62. Mr. Mercedes (2014)
  63. Revival (2014)
  64. Finders Keepers (2015)
  65. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
  66. End of Watch (2016)
  67. Gwendy’s Button Box (2017)
  68. Sleeping Beauties (2017)
  69. The Outsider (2018)
  70. Elevation (2018)
  71. The Institute (2019)
  72. Gwendy’s Magic Feather (2019) (not written by Stephen King, but it is part of the trilogy)
  73. If It Bleeds (2020)
  74. Later (2021)
  75. Billy Summers (2021)
  76. Gwendy’s Final Task (2022)
  77. Fairy Tale (2022)
  78. Holly (2023)
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