This list of king s writings is the definitive ranking of his body of work. Uncle steve has released seven new books in the intervening years depending on what you count, and with each successive addition, ive felt like i. From an oeuvre of almost 100 books, here are the best stephen king books, ranked. The 10 best movies based on stephen king books according to imdb apart from writing, stephen king has had a hand in movies as his novels constantly get produced. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best looking back over more than 40 years worth of the writers work. Stephen kings books are all connected to each other, and. A roundup of some of the biggest stephen king characters who appear in multiple novels. 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. Reddits largest community of stephen king s avid fans. 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. Hes one of the most recognizable names in fiction and easily one of the most prolific american authors. 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. Honestly, its hard to think of a stephen king book that hasnt left at least one image permanently scorched into our brains.
Tv has been a favorite home to adaptations of stephen king books and short stories into series, miniseries, and tv movies since 1979 tv series salems lot. Richard bachman actually stephen king s son goes by the name joe hill. Stephen kings best books, ranked by readers the delite. 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 one taps into a phobia thats both very old and very current. Stephen king is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Stephen king suggests that all his villains, supernatural or otherwise, are pawns of the crimson king. While every murakami novel is great, and some might shy away from ranking the work of such a complex artist, we fear nothing and have many opinions. His recent work includes the institute, elevation, the outsider, sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, and the bill hodges trilogy. The following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. 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. Looking back over more than 40 years worth of his work.
In 2008, kings book on writing was ranked 21st on entertainment weekly list of the. And with this summers followup to 2017s it just a few months away, the time has never been better. The 10 best movies based on stephen king books according. Heres our ranking of the notsobest murakami novel to the best murakami novel. The master of suspense has enough famous horror novel options to last you months. After attending the university of maine, he worked as a sportswriter for his local newspaper and labored away for. Every single stephen king book, ranked from worst to best. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on august 6, 1965, and congress later amended the act five times to expand its protections. That, in a nutshell, is the gist of stephen king s fourth novel, the stand. Stephen king has published more than 80 novels since 1974.
The best way to build your own stephen king library. The best and worst stephen king movies, ranked list of. Yes, its another stephen king book no surprise that he makes the list of scariest books more than once. Stephen king books 2017 edition the last time i updated this ranking of king s books was 20, which in these times of hardship seems implausibly distant. 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. With over 60 novels published, there are no shortage of great titles to choose from. The story is set in the year 1922 on a family farm in nebraska owned by wilf, his wife arlette, and his 14yearold son, henry.
The action of this book was included in the 2017 screen adaptation, the dark. The best stephen king novels 12 mustread stephen king books. Stephen king is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. All the stephen king movies and tv shows on netflix. Whatever it is, theres no denying that stephen king knows what scares usand hes not afraid to deliver. 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. All 64 stephen king books, ranked stephen king books that should be adapted next. Weve ranked the very best and worst stephen king movies of all time. His work includes the novels heartshaped box 2007, horns 2010, nos4a2 20, and the fireman 2016.
A definitive ranking of every stephen king novel ever. This story originally ran in 2017 and has been updated for the release of it chapter two. Including the two that will become movies this year. In celebration of sleepless nights, here are some of the freakiest, scariest stephen king books. The 17 best stephen king books ever written, ranked. Not all adaptations of king s books are worth watching. 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. Whether developed for television or straighttovideo remember video tapes. Released in 1978, the weighty book the original version is 823 pages long, while the. See where misery, the shining, pet sematary, and the dark tower land and which horror gem takes the top spot. The movie features rocksolid performances by thomas jane, neal mcdonough, and molly parker.
Pennywise, and beverly marsh all appear in multiple stephen king books. The 10 best stephen king books your picks for the horror masters scariest, most suspenseful pageturners, from it to the dead zone. All of the best stephen king books, ranked reedsy discovery. When you read stephen king s dark tower series, you start to notice that there are a whole lot of books with dark tower connections you werent aware of. Acting allows you to live other peoples lives without having to pay the price. 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. Now that we got the technicalities out of the way, lets dive headfirst into the closest we can approximate to an ultimate ranking of stephen king filmtv adaptations, from the very worst, to. But some of them rank among the best works hollywood has ever produced. Stephen king wrote his first short story at seven, and was first published in a comic fanzine at 18.
The king of horror may be best known for dark narrativesbut one of the biggest reasons king s popularity has. A list of stephen king s novels, organized newest to oldest. Everything we know about stephen kings new the stand. These stephen king characters all appear in multiple books. A good chunk of them are skippable, as will leitch and tim grierson wrote in their definitive ranking of 40 stephen king movie adaptations for vulture. A list of stephen king s novels, organized alphabetically. Heres some background on the mainebased writer and a bibliography, featuring details about some of his most notable works. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. Ranking every stephen king novel, from worst to first. Best stephen king movie and tv show adaptations insider.
This list of the best stephen king books has you covered. Stephen edwin king born september 21, 1947 is an american author of horror, supernatural. His first crime thriller featuring bill hodges, mr mercedes, won the. And with this summers followup to 2017 s it just a few months away, the time has never been better to get. The name itself carries some great metatextual flavor as, of course, stephen king. The best stephen king movies, ranked from worst to best. The voting rights act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the united states that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. All stephen king tv series, miniseries, tv movies ranked. In other words, not only has 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.
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