Hes one of the most recognizable names in fiction and easily one of the most prolific american authors. So vote for the best among his many top works below, or rerank the list if you dont agree with the order. The best stephen king books, ranked in order audiobook. King has published 63 novels, including seven under. The first stephen king book i ever read, and possibly my pick for the best for sentimental reasons. Having said that, the discussion regarding his best and worst work will never come to a definitive end. Her work has appeared regularly in the orlando sentinel. Stephen king s work has been adapted so many times sometimes by king himself that its impossible to find a single unifying thread in all of the film adaptations.
In celebration of sleepless nights, here are some of the freakiest, scariest stephen king books. The best stephen king movies, ranked from worst to best. 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. The stand by stephen king, it by stephen king, the shining by stephen king, the gunslinger by stephen king, misery by stephen. Ranking every stephen king novel, from worst to first. 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. Tyler coates king hates it, and while i understand why king hates it, i. I love you always stephen king and i will always support you. At 71, stephen king is still at the top of his game and is showing no signs of slowing down. He also happens to be one of my favorite storytellers, an author i.
The gunslinger is a little different from other stephen king books but its still probably his best book. Im not surprised a stephen king book is the top horror book on goodreads. As you might imagine, a list of the most popular horror novels on goodreads is basically a stephen king wash out, with a couple of neil gaimans novels thrown in for some variety. Check out our list of the best fantasy books of alltime below. The best stephen king novels 12 mustread stephen king books. We count down the 10 best stephen king books of all time, including his scariest and most thrilling novels like carrie, salems lot and pet sematary. Stephen king wrote his first short story at seven, and was first published in a comic fanzine at 18. So forget what youve seen in the movieswhether youre new to stephen king s oeuvre, or youre working on indoctrinating a friend, reading the following 10 books is nonnegotiable. Best stephen king movie and tv show adaptations insider.
Best selling refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or cowritten by an. But by some off chance youre a stranger to his writing, weve rounded up 10 of the best, most ghastly horror books written by stephen king his greatest hits, if you willin no particular order. As the author of more than 60 globally best selling 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. Stephen king has written some of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, the best known of which, perhaps, are the shining, the stand and his beloved dark tower series, which serves as a kind.
The 10 best stephen king books your picks for the horror masters scariest, most suspenseful pageturners, from it to the dead zone. 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. I know before i even hit the publish button on this post that most people are going to raise their eyebrows. Dark tower mostly takes place in midworld, the decayed remains of a once great empire where a. As the author of more than 60 globally bestselling books, the mind. The stand by stephen king, it by stephen king, the shining by. Swan song, which tied with stephen king s misery for a bram stoker award for best novel, is a 960page magnum opus of apocalyptic fiction that feels a bit too familiar in 2018.
So, with the newest release of one of his novels in movie form, the mist, i present you with the top fifteen of his novels. Top rated horror novel the green mile by stephen king. Is it ironic that the best movie based on a stephen king book is also the worst adaptation of a stephen king book. This week, stephen king releases his latest novel, mr. The best stephen king novels on this list have combined to sell over 350 million copies, and king himself has received numerous writing and literature awards throughout his career.
However, weve got a video here for you that you just might enjoy. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best looking back over more than 40 years worth of the writers work. Around these parts we hold stephen king in very high regard. But however you know him, from the films or his books, there is little doubt that stephen is the king at what he does. I love it and the stand and so many others, but there is a true tragic arc to this novel that makes the reader truly care about what happens, even though its practically foreordained. 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. This is a guide to theatrically released king adaptations. The 10 best stephen king books monsters and critics. The author of fifty novels, nearly two hundred short stories and nine collections of short fiction, he is as productive as he is versatile. I love horror because i read his book since i was child and now im grown up with his book. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. But the extremely prolific writer has also written plenty of. The green mile is the highest rated of king s many novels. Whatever it is, theres no denying that stephen king knows what scares usand hes not afraid to deliver.
In this way, king s books transcend genre and appeal to all lovers of the written word. Being almost 70 years old, stephen king s been officially published for 50 of them, and many of his books were published multiple times throughout the years. Theres never been a better time to be a stephen king fan. Looking to discover new worlds and new characters to fall in love with. I suggest reading these collections in chronological order to allow you to see the changes in stephens writing over the years.
His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. Best stephen king books list of stephen king novels. Stephen king, one of the masters of american horror fiction, has an oeuvre of close to 100 books. The 17 best stephen king books ever written, ranked. Top 30 stephen king movies, ranked from haunted hotels to prisonyard blues, carrie to christine the major adaptations of the iconic authors work, from worst to best.
Stephen king is the main reason i instituted the only one book per author rule for this post. All stephen king movies ranked rated stephen king movie adaptations by tomatometer. Also this book ties in with other stephen king books like the avengers movies which is pretty cool. On monday, hulu premiered 112263, its jj abrams produced, james francostarring.
We could easily make a top horror books by stephen king on goodreads list. Hes known for writing gruesome scenes and grotesque villains. The following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Your picks for the horror masters scariest, most suspenseful pageturners, from it to the dead zone. If youre interested in king on different platforms, look to our guide of stephen king tv series, miniseries, tv movies ranked. The master of suspense has enough famous horror novel options to last you months. Henry prize winner stephen king delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brandnew, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write or rewrite each story. Stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. Theres no doubt that writer stephen king is best known for the horror novels that haunt his special corner of american literature. Photo by astrid stawiarzgetty books lists stephen king share tweet pin. The wind through the keyhole 2012 could also be read between books four and five as is chronologically correct amazon novellas short stories collections by stephen king. An underrated classic, rose madder 1995 is the story of rosie daniels, a wife who has finally found the courage to.
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. All of the best stephen king books, ranked reedsy discovery. This is a list of best selling fiction authors to date, in any language. After attending the university of maine, he worked as a sportswriter for his local newspaper.
Good fantasy books have been transporting people to other. The stand by stephen king, it by stephen king, the shining by stephen king, misery by stephen king, salems lot by stephe. Stephen kings best books, ranked by readers the delite. Thank goodness he did though, since the book remains among the best stephen king books for beginners available. The 10 greatest stephen king horror novels according to. Every single stephen king book, ranked from worst to best.
The results can be clunkers, but they also include a few classic horror movies. Stephen king s books have been adapted into movies and tv shows dozens of times. Here are some of the best stephen king adaptations including it, misery, and the shawshank redemption. It is his 65th book, if you count novels, nonfiction, and shortstory collections, and we are using its publication as an excuse to look back over nearly 40 years worth of his work and make the tough, ruthless calls to rank them all no copout ties allowed.
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