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.
- Please shop local. You can do so online through bookshop.org. When you buy through my link, I get a small cut.
| Carrie | 1974 | read my review |
| ‘Salem’s Lot | 1975 | read my review |
| The Shining (Shining I) | 1977 | read my review |
| Rage (as Richard Bachman) | 1977 | read my review |
| Night Shift (stories) | 1978 | read my review |
| The Stand | 1978 | read my review |
| The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) | 1979 | read my review |
| The Dead Zone | 1979 | read my review |
| Firestarter | 1980 | read my review |
| Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) | 1981 | read my review |
| Danse Macabre (non-fiction) | 1981 | read my review |
| Cujo | 1981 | read my review |
| The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) | 1982 | read my review |
| The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I) | 1982 | read my review |
| Different Seasons (stories) | 1982 | read my review |
| Christine | 1983 | read my review |
| Pet Sematary | 1983 | read my review |
| Cycle of the Werewolf | 1983 | read my review |
| The Eyes of the Dragon | 1984 | read my review |
| The Talisman (Talisman I, w/Peter Straub) | 1984 | read my review |
| Thinner (as Richard Bachman) | 1984 | read my review |
| Skeleton Crew (stories) | 1985 | read my review |
| It | 1986 | read my review |
| The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II) | 1987 | read my review |
| Misery | 1987 | read my review |
| The Tommyknockers | 1987 | read my review |
| Bare Bones (non-fiction) | 1988 | read my review |
| The Dark Half | 1989 | read my review |
| Four Past Midnight (stories) | 1990 | read my review |
| The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III) | 1991 | read my review |
| Needful Things | 1991 | read my review |
| Gerald’s Game | 1992 | read my review |
| Dolores Claiborne | 1992 | read my review |
| Nightmares and Dreamscapes (stories) | 1993 | read my review |
| Insomnia | 1994 | read my review |
| Rose Madder | 1995 | read my review |
| The Green Mile | 1996 | read my review |
| Desperation | 1996 | read my review |
| The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) | 1996 | read my review |
| Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) | 1997 | read my review |
| Bag of Bones | 1998 | read my review |
| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 1999 | read my review |
| Hearts in Atlantis (stories) | 1999 | read my review |
| Storm of the Century (screenplay) | 1999 | read my review |
| Secret Windows (non-fiction) | 2000 | read my review |
| On Writing (memoir) | 2000 | read my review |
| Dreamcatcher | 2001 | read my review |
| Black House (Talisman II, w/Peter Straub) | 2001 | read my review |
| From a Buick 8 | 2002 | read my review |
| Everything’s Eventual (stories) | 2002 | read my review |
| Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) | 2003 | read my review |
| Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI) | 2004 | read my review |
| The Dark Tower (Dark Tower VII) | 2004 | read my review |
| Faithful (non-fiction, w/Stewart O’Nan) | 2004 | read my review |
| The Colorado Kid | 2005 | read my review |
| Cell | 2006 | read my review |
| Lisey’s Story | 2006 | read my review |
| Blaze (as Richard Bachman) | 2007 | read my review |
| Duma Key | 2008 | read my review |
| Just After Sunset (stories) | 2008 | read my review |
| Under the Dome | 2009 | read my review |
| Full Dark, No Stars (stories) | 2010 | read my review |
| 11/22/63 | 2011 | read my review |
| The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower) | 2012 | read my review |
| Joyland | 2013 | read my review |
| Doctor Sleep (Shining II) | 2013 | read my review |
| Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges I) | 2014 | read my review |
| Revival | 2014 | read my review |
| Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges II) | 2015 | read my review |
| The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (stories) | 2015 | read my review |
| End of Watch (Bill Hodges III) | 2016 | read my review |
| Gwendy’s Button Box (w/Richard Chizmar) | 2017 | read my review |
| Sleeping Beauties (w/Owen King) | 2017 | read my review |
| The Outsider | 2018 | read my review |
| Elevation | 2018 | read my review |
| Flight or Fright (ed. by Stephen King) | 2018 | read my review |
| The Institute | 2019 | read my review |
| If It Bleeds (stories) | 2020 | read my review |
| Later | 2021 | read my review |
| Billy Summers | 2021 | read my review |