Stephen king bibliography the following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. Ive also excluded his short stories novellas, focusing on only his fulllength publications. With so many great works, this list of books by stephen king, voted on by the ranker community, attempts to rank his top novels and best books ever.
The one movie king ever directed, and well, you know, stephen king is a wonderful writer who should probably stick with writing. View entire discussion 50 comments more posts from the stephenking community. The 10 best stephen king books your picks for the horror masters scariest, most suspenseful pageturners, from it to the dead zone. The body farm creepypasta by brian martinez performed by jason hill full 10part story duration. Ranking every stephen king novel by how likely they are to.
As the author of more than 60 globally bestselling books, the mind behind 50 of the scariest scary movies, and both a national medal of honor and national book foundation medal recipient, its an undisputed fact that stephen king is a master of horror fiction. Mar 11, 2019 here are 50 mustread books recommended by stephen king over the years, and if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list, ive made a few of my own book suggestions for the king as well. Jan 12, 2018 stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. Heres some background on the mainebased writer and a bibliography, featuring details about some of his most notable works. The characters are sad and creepy, but extremely loveable.
On this list put the top stephen king books score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The dead zone 1983 david cronenbergs adaptation of one of kings best novels displays a working philosophy that will characterize the filmmakers future interpretations of difficult books by william s. Henry prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by the new yorker, and riding the bullet, king s original ebook, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the. I say a gajillion, but more likely its a mere few thousand.
Along with his fulllength novels, we included kings many shortstory collections and. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best looking back over more than 40 years worth of the writers work. Mar 25, 2014 stephen king is one of the most prolific authors in the world, with more than 50 books in print, and more coming out every year. Maximum overdrive is the only movie stephen king ever directed with very good reason. A definitive ranking of every stephen king short story. Even today, he averages two books per year many question the quality of his most recent work which i will address in this article. The sheer number of film and television adaptations of stephen king s stories alone 50plus, and countingfrom stanley kubricks thriller, the shining 1980 to rob reiners stand by me 1986 and hbos 2020 miniseries, the outsiderwould have made king the undisputed master of horror. Get the best deals on stephen king books in english it when you shop the largest online selection at. The dead zone is a novellength treatment of the old would you kill. Counting the number of stephen king books that have been turned into movies is a little trickier than it might seem.
The bulk of king s short stories exist only in the series of 11 anthologies hes published during his career. In an interview with time, the prolific author reflected on his ten most monstrously large books. After his work began to take off, stephen king wrote under a pseudonym, richard bachman, these books were less supernatural horror and more suspense thrillers. I know this list is going to be contentious amongst fellow fans, and i welcome comments and criticism with open arms. The best stephen king movies, ranked slant magazine. King s bestselling 1,100page whopper of a book and the 1990 tv miniseries helped elevate shapeshifting killer clown pennywise into a potent cultural bogeyman. Stephen kings 10 most underrated movies screenrant. Stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. With such an expansive catalogue of books, king has too many to simply choose blindly, so lets get into the top 10 stephen king audiobooks, in particular order. Feb 18, 2016 theres never been a better time to be a stephen king fan. King on king stephen king on his 10 longest novels time. After all, when it comes to king, most people think of the shining, carrie, cujo, pet sematary, children of the corn, etc.
Every stephen king miniseries, ranked worst to best. All of the best stephen king books, ranked reedsy discovery. Originally published as a bachman book, this was actually the first fulllength novel that king ever finished. His books have sold over 350 million copies since he first published carrie in 1974. The best stephen king movies, ranked slant magazine film. The best stephen king movies, ranked from worst to best. That said, here are king s 10 most underrated movies. Looking back over more than 40 years worth of his work. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation. This list of king s writings is the definitive ranking of his body of work. The 10 worst and 10 best stephen king movies youtube.
Originally published as a bachman book, this was actually the first full length novel that king ever finished. I will explain for those that dont know what that means. September 21, 1947 is the bestselling american author of 50 horror, suspsense, and science fictionfantasy novels. This wiki has been updated 23 times since it was first published in march of 2015. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best vulture. This list made me realize that theres a lot of stephen king books out there i still havent read. King on king stephen king on his 10 longest novels. The list of books and their page counts was supplied by king s office and refers to the american hardcover editions. All 44 stephen king movies, ranked worst to best photos. In celebration of sleepless nights, here are some of the freakiest, scariest stephen king books. King has published 61 novels including seven under the pen name richard bachman and six nonfiction books. Blog posted on wednesday, apr 03 stephen king short stories did you know that there are over stephen king short stories in existence. With over 60 novels published, there are no shortage of great titles to choose from.
But as it was first published, the stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. Ranking every stephen king novel, from worst to first. The 10 best stephen king audiobooks, a ranking book riot. With such an expansive catalogue of books, king has too many to simply choose blindly, so lets get into the top 10 stephen king audiobooks. I have read so many books from stephen king but this is my favorite.
The plot begins with jake epping, an english teacher, who leads a. Nov 09, 2009 kings latest, under the dome, is his third longest novel ever. Novellas by stephen king novella is a word that may have a gajillion different definitions, most of them very similar to one another. To help you out, weve put together this list of the best stephen kings books, ranked from. And, by all means, if theres a king book that somehow scared you even more than these did, tell us about it in the comments. Its difficult to point to a stephen king book that is outright bad, but across 50 novels, some are more successful than othersso we ranked them all. Still, its bracketed by two of the greatest stories king has ever written though the body. King s latest, under the dome, is his third longest novel ever. From an oeuvre of almost 100 books, here are the best stephen king books, ranked. He has also written nearly two hundred short stories and published a series of comics called the gunslinger born, based on his the dark tower series. Stephen king is at his best when hes writing from the perspective of children.
Best of stephen king im a huuuge stephen king fan but because his collection is so extensive i havent been able to read all of his works. Best stephen king books list of stephen king novels. The best stephen king novels 12 mustread stephen king books. A list of stephen king s novels, organized alphabetically. He also happens to be one of my favorite storytellers, an author i. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, 1 and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. Its the 40th anniversary of the publication of carrie, so new york magazine has compiled a complete list of the maine mans works including the bachman books, collaborations, collections and nonfiction, ranked from worst to best. Jul 18, 2019 whatever it is, theres no denying that stephen king knows what scares usand hes not afraid to deliver. Without further ado, heres my list of the best stephen king audiobooks published in this century. Our horrorfilled list of the best stephen king books to start with. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation 195,011 doctor sleep. As such, neither can properly be considered to have been written by stephen king. I guess im just curious about everyones favorite books that hes written and to see which ones i should try and in the upcoming months.
After that its a little harder to be objective as ive found his short story collections to be really incredible and woukd probably rank them higher than the other sk novels ive read. The shining by stephen king, campbell scott, et al. Im making it my personal mission to listen to every stephen king novel published so far this century, which given kings propensity for very long books, is a far bigger job than you might imagine. Stephen king has 1632 books on goodreads with 23469689 ratings. He finds the thematic center of the source material, pruning or changing whatevers necessary to heighten it. As long as there have been stephen king books, there have been stephen king adaptations, and its likely there will continue to be long after the legendary author himself is no longer among the living. Henry prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by the new yorker, and riding the bullet, king s original e book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the. Stephen king s son also writes books but he does not go by his regular name he writes under a different name and i forget what it is. Undoubtedly one of the most prolific and quite possibly one of the greatest writers of our generation, stephen king s books offer much more variety than the horror stories for which he became famous. On monday, hulu premiered 112263, its jj abrams produced, james francostarring miniseries adapted from the writers bestselling jfk. On this list put the top stephen king books score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. May 20, 2017 of the best stephen king short stories youve never read. Hes one of the most recognizable names in fiction and easily one of the most prolific american authors. In 1978 stephen king published the stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. King s books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in. The dark tower audiobook the gunslinger part 1 youtube. A truly underrated novel, and one of the few fulllength novels king wrote that has. Stephen king books in order of length a novel best seller. The best stephen king books, ranked in order audiobook by. As king is one of americas best and foremost short story writers, this is a matter that bears rectifyingafter all, there are more than 100 stories spread across his 10 collections, and thats a considerable body of work. This poem by king was expanded to novella length by having glenn. King s books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in their time, and some flopped so hard that hardly.
The list of books and their page counts was supplied by kings office and refers to the american hardcover editions. With over 50 novels and hundreds of short stories published in his name, he stands. Every single stephen king book, ranked from worst to best. Oct 03, 2017 to help you parse out the good from the bad, heres a list of the 10 worst and 10 best stephen king adaptations so far, not in any particular order, but starting with the ones that probably dont. Between research and taking daily brakes to avoid kinglike dreams true story. They do when youre reading them, i think, which is probably the only thing that matters. Here, submitted for your approval, are the short story collections of stephen king, ranked. In that spirit, i ranked both of these books on previous incarnations of this list. The best stephen king audiobooks ranked best thrillers. This makes picking the best stephen king books a daunting challenge. Weve compiled the best featurelength adaptations of kings work, excluding the mostly mediocre tv adaptations. A list of stephen king s audiobooks, organized alphabetically. With well over 50 novels, multiple novellas, short story collections, and works of nonfiction, plus a handful of other releases that defy easy categorization among them, a libretto for a southern gothic musical, stephen king is a literary madman and an insanelyquotable storyteller. Enter stephen king, the master of spooks, good storytelling, and, yes, often really long books.
The problem with maximum overdrive is that i was coked out of my mind all through its production, and i really didnt know what. To be fair, the film was really codirected by stephen king and cocaine. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. The following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Until the stand is made public, lets assess some of king s most unheralded cinematic works to date. Mar 16, 2019 this wiki has been updated 23 times since it was first published in march of 2015. Technically, four of these collections contain a handful of novella length. The movies tone is set in the opening scene, in which a man. Jan 14, 2020 stephen king is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. The best stephen king movies, ranked page 2 of 2 slant. Stephen king books list of books by author stephen king.
Weve banded together with some of critic friends to rank the best movies based on stephen king s ghoulish work. Theyre novels that i feel are good intros to kings masterful style of storytelling. King talked to time about his top 10 biggest books, reflecting on the circumstances under which they were written and the critical reception that they received. Stephen edwin king born september 21, 1947 is an american author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels. In other words, not only has stephen king written some genius novels and short stories, novellas, essays, and works of criticism, but hes written a lot of them51 novels. King has a knack for writing stories that connect with people on an extremely personal. A definitive ranking of every stephen king novel ever. Stephen kings best books, ranked by readers the delite. Theres no doubt that the mans publishing career is impressive, but king was perhaps most prolific with his short stories.
It wasnt the length of the list 49 books that threw me off, it was the variety one who finds aliens frightening may not have nightmares over psychological thrillers. One of the masters of american horror fiction, author stephen king has a oeuvre of more than 88 books which includes some of the most genredefining, bestselling titles in all of literature. One of the longest king books, needful things is epic, sad, dark, scary, smart, and simply fun read. Jul 31, 2017 the dark tower audiobook the gunslinger part 1 derrick melton.
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