Stephen King Reading Order

9 books (2010–2022)

Start with American Vampire, Vol. 1(With: Scott Snyder), the first of 9 books in the American Vampire series.

#	Title
1	American Vampire, Vol. 1(With: Scott Snyder) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	American Vampire, Vol. 2(By: Scott Snyder) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	American Vampire, Vol. 3(By: Scott Snyder) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	American Vampire, Vol. 4(By: Scott Snyder) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	American Vampire Vol. 5(By: Scott Snyder) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	American Vampire, Vol. 6(By: Scott Snyder) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	American Vampire Vol. 8(By: Scott Snyder) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	American Vampire, Vol. 7(By: Scott Snyder) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	American Vampire 1976(By: Scott Snyder) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

123 books (1978–2025)

Start with Tales of Unknown Horror, the first of 123 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Tales of Unknown Horror 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Finest Fantasy 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	More Tales of Unknown Horror 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1980Buy 🇺🇸
9	New Terrors II 1980Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fantasy Annual III 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fantasy Annual IV 1981Buy 🇺🇸
12	Modern Masters of Horror 1981Buy 🇺🇸
13	Shadows 4 1981Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Giant Book Of Horror Stories 1981Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	65 Great Spine Chillers 1982Buy 🇺🇸
17	Death 1982Buy 🇺🇸
18	Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King 1982Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book 1983Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII 1984Buy 🇺🇸
21	Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
22	Realms of Darkness 1985Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Year's Best Horror Stories 1985Buy 🇺🇸
24	Horrors 1986Buy 🇺🇸
25	Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King 1986Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Dark Descent 1987Buy 🇺🇸
27	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸
28	A Treasury of American Horror Stories 1988Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dark Visions 1988Buy 🇺🇸
30	Horror Factor 7 1988Buy 🇺🇸
31	Prime Evil 1988Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1988Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels 1988Buy 🇺🇸
34	Book of the Dead 1989Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Best of Modern Horror 1989Buy 🇺🇸
36	Dark Voices: No. 1 1990Buy 🇺🇸
37	Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1990Buy 🇺🇸
38	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸
39	Horrorstory 1991Buy 🇺🇸
40	I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror 1991Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Horror Hall of Fame 1991Buy 🇺🇸
42	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸
43	Midnight Graffiti 1992Buy 🇺🇸
44	Mid-life Confidential 1994Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Puffin Book of Horror Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
46	Young Blood 1994Buy 🇺🇸
47	Horror Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
48	Space Movies 1995Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Vampire Omnibus 1995Buy 🇺🇸
50	American Gothic Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸
51	Dark Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸
52	Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
53	Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror 1996Buy 🇺🇸
54	Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Ninth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸
55	Blood Thirst 1997Buy 🇺🇸
56	Robert Bloch's Psychos 1997Buy 🇺🇸
57	Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture 1998Buy 🇺🇸
58	Legends 1 1998Buy 🇺🇸
59	The Best of the Best 1998Buy 🇺🇸
60	The Playboy Book of Science Fiction 1998Buy 🇺🇸
61	999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense 1999Buy 🇺🇸
62	Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! 1999Buy 🇺🇸
63	Technohorror: Inventions in Terror 1999Buy 🇺🇸
64	The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1999Buy 🇺🇸
65	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection 1999Buy 🇺🇸
66	Vintage Science Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸
68	A Century of Great Suspense Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
69	Dark Masques 2001Buy 🇺🇸
70	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸
71	Baseball: a Literary Anthology 2002Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller 2002Buy 🇺🇸
73	From the Borderlands 2003Buy 🇺🇸
74	In the Shadow of the Master 2003Buy 🇺🇸
75	Great Ghost Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
76	The Future Dictionary of America 2004Buy 🇺🇸
77	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
78	The Campfire Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
79	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸
80	Transgressions, Vol. 2 2006Buy 🇺🇸
81	The Best American Short Stories 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
82	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
83	The Living Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸
84	Best New Horror 20 2009Buy 🇺🇸
85	Dancing with the Dark 2009Buy 🇺🇸
86	First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
87	The Big Book of NECON 2009Buy 🇺🇸
88	The Dead That Walk 2009Buy 🇺🇸
89	Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead 2009Buy 🇺🇸
90	Best New Horror 21 2010Buy 🇺🇸
91	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸
92	Shivers VI 2010Buy 🇺🇸
93	A Book of Horrors 2011Buy 🇺🇸
94	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
95	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
96	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
97	Rage Against the Night 2011Buy 🇺🇸
98	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸
99	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸
100	The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸
101	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
102	Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny 2013Buy 🇺🇸
103	Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All 2013Buy 🇺🇸
104	Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly 2013Buy 🇺🇸
105	Shivers VII 2013Buy 🇺🇸
106	Turn Down the Lights 2013Buy 🇺🇸
107	Field of Fantasies 2014Buy 🇺🇸
108	Woman: An Anthology 2014Buy 🇺🇸
109	Chiral Mad 3 2016Buy 🇺🇸
110	Detours 2016Buy 🇺🇸
111	Grave Predictions 2016Buy 🇺🇸
112	In Sunlight or In Shadow 2016Buy 🇺🇸
113	Six Scary Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
114	Flight or Fright 2018Buy 🇺🇸
115	You, Human 2018Buy 🇺🇸
116	Dark Tides 2019Buy 🇺🇸
117	Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night 2019Buy 🇺🇸
118	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
119	Chiral Mad 5 2022Buy 🇺🇸
120	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸
121	Qualia Nous: Vol. 2 2023Buy 🇺🇸
122	The Rack 2024Buy 🇺🇸
123	The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

18 books (2009–2025)

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2016)

Start with Mr. Mercedes and read in order.

#	Title
1	Mr. Mercedes 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Finders Keepers 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	End of Watch 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2016–2025)

Start with Charlie the Choo-Choo(As: Beryl Evans) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Charlie the Choo-Choo(As: Beryl Evans) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hansel and Gretel(With: Maurice Sendak) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1982–2020)

Start with Creepshow, the first of 4 books in the Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Creepshow 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Talisman: Road of Trials(With: Peter Straub,Tony Shasteen) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1996–1996)

Start with Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, the first of 6 books in the Green Mile series.

#	Title
1	Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Coffey on the Mile 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Coffey's Hands 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Mouse on the Mile 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Night Journey 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Two Dead Girls 1996Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2014–2025)

Start with Mr. Mercedes, the first of 7 books in the Holly Gibney series.

#	Title
1	Mr. Mercedes 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Finders Keepers 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	End of Watch 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Outsider 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	If It Bleeds 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Holly 2023Buy 🇺🇸
7	Never Flinch 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–1999)

Start with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Legends(With: Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Legends 3(By: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1981–2016)

Start with Danse Macabre, the first of 9 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Danse Macabre 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stephen King's Danse Macabre 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King(With: Chuck Miller,Tim Underwood) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	On Writing 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Faithful 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Guns 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hearts in Suspension 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1999–2013)

Start with Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay and read in order.

#	Title
1	Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ghost Brothers of Darkland County(With: T. Bone Burnett) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2010)

Start with The Secretary of Dreams and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Secretary of Dreams 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸

100 books (1971–2023)

Start with The Blue Air Compressor, the first of 100 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Blue Air Compressor 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	One for the Road 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ledge 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	I Am the Doorway 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	I Know What You Need 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Jerusalem's Lot 1978Buy 🇺🇸
7	Night Surf 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	Quitters, Inc. 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Man Who Loved Flowers 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mangler 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Woman in the Room 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Crate 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Crouch End 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Mist 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Monkey 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	Do the Dead Sing? 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Jaunt 1981Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Body 1982Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Shawshank Redemption 1982Buy 🇺🇸
20	Apt Pupil 1983Buy 🇺🇸
21	Cycle of the Werewolf 1983Buy 🇺🇸
22	Silver Bullet 1983Buy 🇺🇸
23	Uncle Otto's Truck 1983Buy 🇺🇸
24	Word Processor of the Gods 1983Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet 1984Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Breathing Method 1984Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Raft 1985Buy 🇺🇸
28	For the Birds 1986Buy 🇺🇸
29	Mrs. Todd's Shortcut 1986Buy 🇺🇸
30	The End of the Whole Mess 1986Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Last Rung on the Ladder 1987Buy 🇺🇸
32	Trucks 1987Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Night Flier 1988Buy 🇺🇸
34	Dolan's Cadillac 1989Buy 🇺🇸
35	Home delivery 1989Buy 🇺🇸
36	My Pretty Pony 1989Buy 🇺🇸
37	Sneakers 1989Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Langoliers 1989Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Library Policeman 1990Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Sun Dog 1990Buy 🇺🇸
41	Secret Window, Secret Garden 1991Buy 🇺🇸
42	Three Carols 1991Buy 🇺🇸
43	Children of the Corn 1993Buy 🇺🇸
44	Gray Matter 1993Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Ten O'Clock People 1993Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Man in the Black Suit 1994Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Lawnmower Man 1995Buy 🇺🇸
48	Umney's Last Case 1995Buy 🇺🇸
49	1408 1997Buy 🇺🇸
50	Everything's Eventual 1997Buy 🇺🇸
51	Riding the Bullet 2000Buy 🇺🇸
52	Zenith Rising / The Plant 2000Buy 🇺🇸
53	LT's Theory of Pets 2001Buy 🇺🇸
54	Autopsy Room Four 2002Buy 🇺🇸
55	Lisey and the Madman 2004Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Things They Left Behind 2005Buy 🇺🇸
57	Stationary Bike 2006Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Road Virus Heads North 2006Buy 🇺🇸
59	Ayana 2007Buy 🇺🇸
60	Mute 2007Buy 🇺🇸
61	Harvey's Dream 2008Buy 🇺🇸
62	N 2008Buy 🇺🇸
63	The Gingerbread Girl 2008Buy 🇺🇸
64	Morality 2009Buy 🇺🇸
65	Premium Harmony 2009Buy 🇺🇸
66	The Bone Church 2009Buy 🇺🇸
67	UR 2009Buy 🇺🇸
68	1922 2010Buy 🇺🇸
69	Blockade Billy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
70	Tommy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
71	Herman Wouk Is Still Alive 2011Buy 🇺🇸
72	Mile 81 2011Buy 🇺🇸
73	The Little Green God of Agony 2011Buy 🇺🇸
74	Under the Weather / À la dure 2011Buy 🇺🇸
75	A Face in the Crowd(With: Stewart O'Nan) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
76	Batman and Robin have an Altercation 2012Buy 🇺🇸
77	Big Driver 2012Buy 🇺🇸
78	Ghost Brothers of Darkland County 2012Buy 🇺🇸
79	In the Tall Grass(With: Joe Hill) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
80	Stephen King's Battleground 2012Buy 🇺🇸
81	Throttle(With: Joe Hill) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
82	A Good Marriage 2014Buy 🇺🇸
83	That Bus Is Another World 2014Buy 🇺🇸
84	Bad Little Kid 2015Buy 🇺🇸
85	Drunken Fireworks 2015Buy 🇺🇸
86	Mister Yummy 2015Buy 🇺🇸
87	Cookie Jar 2016Buy 🇺🇸
88	Elevation 2018Buy 🇺🇸
89	Laurie 2018Buy 🇺🇸
90	Low Men In Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Obits 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	The Turbulence Expert 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Squad D 2019Buy 🇺🇸
94	On Slide Inn Road 2020Buy 🇺🇸
95	Rat 2020Buy 🇺🇸
96	The Fifth Step 2020Buy 🇺🇸
97	Red Screen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
98	Willie the Weirdo / Willie le Zinzin 2021Buy 🇺🇸
99	Finn 2022Buy 🇺🇸
100	Rattlesnakes 2023Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (1978–2024)

Start with Night Shift, the first of 21 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Night Shift 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Different Seasons 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	Skeleton Crew 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Four Past Midnight 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nightmares and Dreamscapes 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Six Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Green Mile 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Blood and Smoke 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	Graveyard Shift: and Other Stories from Night Shift 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Hearts in Atlantis 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Just After Sunset 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Stephen King Goes to the Movies 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Full Dark, No Stars 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Road Rage(With: Joe Hill,Richard Matheson,Chris Ryall) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	If It Bleeds 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	You Like It Darker 2024Buy 🇺🇸

45 books (1974–2025)

Start with Carrie, the first of 45 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Carrie 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	'Salem's Lot 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rage(As: Richard Bachman) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Stand 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dead Zone 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Long Walk(As: Richard Bachman) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	Firestarter 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cujo 1981Buy 🇺🇸
9	Roadwork(As: Richard Bachman) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Running Man(As: Richard Bachman) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
11	Christine 1983Buy 🇺🇸
12	Pet Sematary 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	Thinner(As: Richard Bachman) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
14	It 1986Buy 🇺🇸
15	Misery 1987Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Eyes of the Dragon 1987Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Tommyknockers 1987Buy 🇺🇸
18	One Past Midnight: The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Dark Half 1989Buy 🇺🇸
20	Needful Things 1991Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dolores Claiborne 1992Buy 🇺🇸
22	Gerald's Game 1992Buy 🇺🇸
23	Insomnia 1994Buy 🇺🇸
24	Rose Madder 1995Buy 🇺🇸
25	Desperation 1996Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Regulators(As: Richard Bachman) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
27	Bag of Bones 1998Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 1999Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dreamcatcher 2001Buy 🇺🇸
30	From a Buick 8 2002Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Colorado Kid 2005Buy 🇺🇸
32	Cell 2006Buy 🇺🇸
33	Lisey's Story 2006Buy 🇺🇸
34	Blaze(As: Richard Bachman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
35	Duma Key 2008Buy 🇺🇸
36	Under the Dome 2009Buy 🇺🇸
37	11/22/63 2011Buy 🇺🇸
38	Joyland 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	Revival 2014Buy 🇺🇸
40	Sleeping Beauties(With: Owen King) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Institute 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	Billy Summers 2021Buy 🇺🇸
43	Later 2021Buy 🇺🇸
44	Fairy Tale 2022Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Life of Chuck 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Talisman and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Talisman 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Black House 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Other Worlds Than These 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2022)

Start with Gwendy's Button Box(With: Richard T. Chizmar) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Gwendy's Button Box(With: Richard T. Chizmar) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gwendy's Magic Feather(By: Richard T. Chizmar) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gwendy's Final Task(With: Richard T. Chizmar) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1987–1991)

Start with Volume I: The Color of Evil and read in order.

#	Title
1	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1982–2012)

Start with The Gunslinger. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Gunslinger 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Drawing of the Three 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Waste Lands 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wizard and Glass 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wolves of the Calla 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Song of Susannah 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dark Tower 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Complete Concordance(With: Robin Furth) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wind Through the Keyhole 2012Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2007–2017)

Start with The Gunslinger Born(By: Robin Furth,Peter David). Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Gunslinger Born(By: Robin Furth,Peter David) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Long Road Home(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Fall of Gilead(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Treachery(By: Robin Furth,Peter David,Richard Isanove) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Battle of Jericho Hill(With: Robin Furth,Peter David) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Sailor(By: Robin Furth) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2020–2023)

Start with Bitter Medicine. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	Bitter Medicine 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	House of Cards 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lady of Shadows 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Prisoner 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Drawing of the Three Omnibus(By: Robin Furth) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2019–2019)

Start with Last Shots. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	Last Shots 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Battle of Tull 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Journey Begins 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Little Sisters of Eluria 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Man in Black 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Way Station 2019Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2018–2020)

Start with The Outsider and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Outsider 2018Buy 🇺🇸
2	If It Bleeds 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1977–2013)

Start with Before the Play and read in order.

#	Title
1	Before the Play 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shining 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Doctor Sleep 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2009–2012)

Start with American Nightmares(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa), the first of 6 books in the The Stand: Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	American Nightmares(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Captain Trips(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hardcases(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Soul Survivors(With: Mike Perkins,LauraMartin,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	No Man's Land(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Night Has Come(With: Mike Perkins,Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) 2012Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸