Stephen King Fans discussion

★★★★★ 👑 = All Time FAVORITES
🚫 = Animal Cruelty or Death, I just can't, either avoided or DNF
Want to Read 📖

Carrie (Novel: 1974) ★★★½
Salem’s Lot (Novel: 1975) ★★★
Rage (Bachman Novel: 1976)
The Shining (Novel: 1977) ★★★★
Night Shift (Collection: 1977) ★★★★
The Long Walk (Bachman Novel: 1978) ★★★★★
The Dead Zone (Novel: 1979) - 🚫
Firestarter (Novel: 1979) ★★★★
The Mist (Novella: 1980) ★★★½
Roadwork (Bachman Novel: 1980)
Cujo (Novel: 1981) - 🚫
The Dark Tower (Novel: 1981) 🚫
The Running Man (Bachman Novel: 1981)
Apt Pupil (Novella: 1982) 🚫
The Body (Novella: 1982)
The Breathing Method (Novella: 1982)
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Novella: 1982) ★★★
Different Seasons (Collection: 1982) 🚫
The Plant [Installment One] (1982)
Christine (Novel: 1982) ★★★
Cycle of the Werewolf (Novel: 1982) ★★★★
The Plant [Installment Two] (1982)
Pet Sematary (Novel: 1983) 🚫
The Talisman (Novel: 1983) ★★
The Eyes of the Dragon (Novel: 1984) 🚫
Thinner (Bachman Novel: 1984) ★★★★
The Plant [Installment Three] (1984)
Skeleton Crew (Collection: 1984) ★★★
IT (Novel 1986) ★★★🚫
Misery (Novel: 1987) ★★★★★ 👑
The Tommyknockers (Novel: 1987) ★★🚫
My Pretty Pony (Novel: 1987)
Letters from Hell (Novel: 1988)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Novel: 1988)
The Dark Half (Novel: 1989) ★★★
The Stand: Complete & Uncut Edition (Novel: 1989) ★★★★★ 👑
The Langoliers (Novella: 1990) ★★★★★
The Library Policeman (Novella: 1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (Novella: 1990)
The Sun Dog (Novella: 1990)
Four Past Midnight (Story Collection: 1990) ★★★★
Needful Things (Novel; October 1991) ★★★🚫
Gerald’s Game (Novel; May 1992) ★★★★
Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Collection: 1993)
Dolores Claiborne (Novel: 1993) ★★★
Insomnia (Novel: 1994) ★★★🚫
Blind Willie (Novella: 1994)
Rose Madder (Novel: 1994) ★★★★
Desperation (Novel: 1995) ★★🚫
The Regulators (Bachman Novel: 1995) ★★
Six Stories (Novel: 1996)
Bag of Bones (Novel: 1998) ★★★★★ 👑
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Novel: 1999) ★★★
The New Lieutenant’s Rap (Novel: 1999)
Hearts in Atlantis (Novella: 1999) ★★
Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling (Novella: 1999)
Low Men in Yellow Coats (Novella: 1999)
Why We’re in Vietnam (Novella: 1999)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Nonfiction: 1999) ★★★★★👑
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (Nonfiction: 1999) ★★★🚫
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel (Novel: 2000) 🚫
Dreamcatcher (Novel: 2001) ★★
Black House (Novel: 2001)
From a Buick 8 (Novel: 2001) ★★★
Everything’s Eventual (Collection: 2002) ★★★★★
The Secretary of Dreams, Vol. 1 (Novel: 2005)
Cell (Novel: 2006) ★★★
Lisey’s Story (Novel: 2006) 📖
Blaze (Bachman Novel: 2006)
The Colorado Kid (Novel: 2006) ★★★★
Duma Key (Novel: 2008) ★★★★★ 👑
A Very Tight Place (Novella: 2008)
N (Novella: 2008)
Just After Sunset (Story Collection: 2008)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (Novel: 2009)
Stephen King Goes to the Movies (Collection: 2009)
UR (Novella: 2009) ★★★
Under the Dome (Novel: 2009) ★★★🚫
Blockade Billy (Novella: 2009)
The Secretary of Dreams, Vol. 2 (Novel: 2010)
Full Dark, No Stars (Collection: 2010) ★★★★
11/22/63 (Novel: 2011) ★★★
Joyland (Novel: 2013) ★★★
The Dark Man (Novel: 2013)
Doctor Sleep (Novel: 2013) ★★★★
Mr. Mercedes (Novel: 2014)★★★★
Revival (Novel: 2014) ★★★
Finders Keepers (Novel: 2015) ★★★★
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Collection: 2015)
End of Watch (Novel: 2016) ★★★
Gwendy’s Button Box (Novella: 2017)
Sleeping Beauties (Novel: 2017)
The Outsider (Novel: 2018)★★★★
Elevation (Novella: 2018) ★★★★
The Institute (Novel: 2019) ★★★★
If It Bleeds (Novella: 2020) ★★★★★
The Life of Chuck (Novella: 2020)
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (Novella: 2020) ★★★★
Rat (Novella: 2020)
Later (Novella: 2021)★★★★
Billy Summers (Novel: 2021) ★★★★
Gwendy’s Final Task (Novel: 2022)
Fairy Tale (Novel: 2022) 📖
Holly (Novel: 2023) ★★★
You Like It Darker (Collection: 2024) 📖
Never Flinch (2025, Novel) ★★
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (Collection: 2025) ★★★½

Tully wrote: "★★★★★ ✨ = All Time FAVORITES
🚫 = Animal Cruelty or Death, I just can't, either avoided or DNF

Carrie (Novel: 1974) ★★★½
Salem’s Lot (Novel: 1975) ★★★
Rage (Bachman Novel: 1976)
The Shining (Novel:..."

I've read 60 books on your list. But then, do you really count each story in Different Seasons and The Green Mile and other collections separately?
Tully, top 3 King books? You can list 5 if you must.

GT wrote: "Tully, top 3 King books? You can list 5 if you must."

Duma Key
The Stand
Bag of Bones
Misery

All of those ones I've read multiple times. I'll leave it at that because it would be hard to pick a fifth one as there'd be at least a three-way tie. :-) UNLESS we add in non-fiction, then it would be:

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Tully wrote: "GT wrote: "Tully, top 3 King books? You can list 5 if you must."

Duma Key
The Stand
Bag of Bones
Misery

All of those ones I've read multiple ..."

That's a good list. Have not read Duma Key but it's now on my list. The Stand seems to be on everyone's fav list. Misery scared the shit out of me and On Writing was an interesting read. But WHAT ABOUT "IT"!!!? Can't believe you ranked The Institute above IT, Shawshank and 11/22/63! LOL
Happy reading!

GT wrote: "Tully wrote: "GT wrote: "Tully, top 3 King books? You can list 5 if you must."

Duma Key
The Stand
Bag of Bones
Misery

All of those ones I've ..."

Thanks.

Well, I really dislike animal abuse/death... and in IT, well it happened more than once, so not my cuppa.

11/22/23 I read it because it was King even though I very rarely like time travel books. I enjoyed it, sorta, just not my thing.