The Definitive Stephen King Book List
It's surprisingly hard to find a definitive list of Stephen King's books. Most of what you'll find on the internet leaves out at least a dozen or more books—sometimes excluding story collections, co-written stories, his non-fiction, etc.
With a little bit of research, I was able to pull together this full list of Stephen King's works, in the order they were published.
A couple additional notes:
In the 70s and 80s, King wrote a number of novels under the name Richard Bachman. He did this for the simple reason that he was writing voraciously and didn't want to publish more than one book per calendar year under his own name. The ruse was discovered by a journalist in the late 80s and King was a big enough star by then that his publishing pace didn't matter. The name was (mostly) retired.
King's series and numerous story collections are noted as such in parentheses.
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Carrie | 1974
'Salem's Lot | 1975
The Shining (Shining I) | 1977
Rage (as Richard Bachman) | 1977
Night Shift (stories) | 1978
The Stand | 1978
The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) | 1979
The Dead Zone | 1979
Firestarter | 1980
Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) | 1981
Danse Macabre (non-fiction) | 1981
Cujo | 1981
The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) | 1982
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I) | 1982
Different Seasons (stories) | 1982
Christine | 1983
Pet Sematary | 1983
Cycle of the Werewolf | 1983
The Eyes of the Dragon | 1984
The Talisman (Talisman I, w/Peter Straub) | 1984
Thinner (as Richard Bachman) | 1984
Skeleton Crew (stories) | 1985
It | 1986
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II) | 1987
Misery | 1987
The Tommyknockers | 1987
The Dark Half | 1989
Four Past Midnight (stories) | 1990
The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III) | 1991
Needful Things | 1991
Gerald's Game | 1992
Dolores Claiborne | 1992
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (stories) | 1993
Insomnia | 1994
Rose Madder | 1995
The Green Mile | 1996
Desperation | 1996
The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) | 1996
Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) | 1997
Bag of Bones | 1998
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 1999
Hearts in Atlantis (stories) | 1999
Storm of the Century (screenplay) | 1999
On Writing (non-fiction) | 2000
Dreamcatcher | 2001
Black House (Talisman II, w/Peter Straub) | 2001
From a Buick 8 | 2002
Everything's Eventual (stories) | 2002
Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) | 2003
Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI) | 2004
The Dark Tower (Dark Tower VII) | 2004
Faithful (non-fiction, w/Stewart O'Nan) | 2004
The Colorado Kid | 2005
Cell | 2006
Lisey's Story | 2006
Blaze (as Richard Bachman) | 2007
Duma Key | 2008
Just After Sunset (stories) | 2008
Under the Dome | 2009
Full Dark, No Stars (stories) | 2010
11/22/63 | 2011
The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower) | 2012
Joyland | 2013
Doctor Sleep (Shining II) | 2013
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges I) | 2014
Revival | 2014
Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges II) | 2015
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | 2015
End of Watch (Bill Hodges III) | 2016
Gwendy's Button Box (w/Richard Chizmar) | 2017
Sleeping Beauties (w/Owen King) | 2017
The Outsider | 2018
Elevation | 2018
Flight or Fright (ed. by Stephen King) | 2018
The Institute | 2019
If It Bleeds (stories) | 2020
Later | 2021
Billy Summers | 2021
This is going to be a fun reading project! I look forward to the reviews and hope to read along with some of them. I'm particularly interested in 11/22/63, Gerald's Game, The Shining, The Stand, and Misery. The only King I've read is The Green Mile (loved it), Under the Dome (couldn't finish) and The Gunslinger (did not like).