Ranking 61 Stephen King Novels
Stephen King has sold LOTS of horror fiction, which has also been adapted for a bunch of movies, TV shows, and more…
Stephen King, the “King of Horror,” has sold more than 350 million copies of his books, many of which have been adapted for film, TV, and comics. Book reviewer Jimmy Mango outlines his opinion of the best Stephen King books as of May 2021.
“I’ll be counting down from 61 to one, pretty succinct,” the reviewer says. “I’m not going to go into too much depth with the books—just a quick, rapid-fire list. Everyone loves lists, so here we go…”
Ranking all 61 Stephen King novels in 19 minutes or less!!!!!
Stephen King has published more than 60 novels in various genres, including horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy. He has sold more than 350 million copies of his books, many of which have been adapted into movies, TV projects, and comic books. He’s also like 200 short stories, many of which have been published in book collections.
His work includes the classic novels Carrie (1974), Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining (1977) The Dead Zone (1979), Firestarter (1980), Pet Sematary (1983), and It (1986), as well as more recent hits as Doctor Sleep (2013), Sleeping Beauties (2017, cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: Mr. Mercedes (2014, an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock), Finders Keepers (2015), and End of Watch (2016).
His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time.
King has received all kind of awards for his fiction, including Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature.