Stephen King Bibliography: The Complete Works (1974-2025)

I’ve been reading Stephen King for over twenty years and have worked my way through more than 40 of his books. This page is for prolific readers, completists, scholars, and collectors: a complete Stephen King bibliography organized by type-novels, novellas, short story collections, short stories, nonfiction, anthologies (contributions), and limited/rare editions-and listed chronologically within each section for easy scanning. I maintain and update this page whenever new releases land or rare editions resurface.

Looking for just the novels & novellas in order with series paths and starter picks? See my lean guide: Stephen King Books in Order (1974-2025).

Quick Answers

• First book: Carrie (1974)
• Newest book: Never Flinch (May 2025)
• Bonus 2025 release: Hansel and Gretel (picture book with Maurice Sendak’s illustrations)
• Want to read the best? See my top 8 must read books
• Scope here: Everything in your list-novels, novellas, collections, nonfiction, anthologies, and limited/rare editions-organized by type

Novels

• Carrie (1974)
• ‘Salem’s Lot (1975)
• Rage (1976, Bachman)
• The Shining (1977)
• The Stand (1978)
• The Long Walk (1978, Bachman)
• The Dead Zone (1979)
• Firestarter (1980)
• Roadwork (1980, Bachman)
• Cujo (1981)
• The Running Man (1981, Bachman)
• Christine (1983)
• Pet Sematary (1983)
• The Talisman (1984, with Peter Straub)
• Thinner (1984, Bachman)
• Cycle of the Werewolf (1985)
• The Bachman Books (1985, omnibus of 4 Bachman novels)
• IT (1986)
• The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
• The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
• Misery (1987)
• The Tommyknockers (1987)
• The Dark Half (1989)
• The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990)
• The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
• Needful Things (1991)
• Gerald’s Game (1992)
• Dolores Claiborne (1993)
• Insomnia (1994)
• Rose Madder (1995)
• The Regulators (1995, Bachman)
• Desperation (1996)
• The Green Mile (1996, serial novel; full volume 2000)
• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
• Bag of Bones (1998)
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
• Dreamcatcher (2001)
• Black House (2001, with Peter Straub)
• From a Buick 8 (2002)
• The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982, revised 2003)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
• The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
• The Colorado Kid (2005)
• Cell (2006)
• Lisey’s Story (2006)
• Blaze (2006, Bachman)
• Duma Key (2008)
• Under the Dome (2009)
• 11/22/63 (2011)
• The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
• Joyland (2013)
• Doctor Sleep (2013)
• Mr. Mercedes (2014)
• Revival (2014)
• Finders Keepers (2015)
• End of Watch (2016)
• Sleeping Beauties (2017, with Owen King)
• The Outsider (2018)
• The Institute (2019)
• Later (2021)
• Billy Summers (2021)
• Gwendy’s Final Task (2022, with Richard Chizmar)
• Fairy Tale (2022)
• Holly (2023)
• Never Flinch (2025)

Novellas

• The Mist (1980)
• Apt Pupil (1982)
• The Body (1982)
• The Breathing Method (1982)
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982)
• Blind Willie (1994)
• Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
• Low Men in Yellow Coats (1999)
• Why We’re in Vietnam (1999)
• Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling (1999)
• The Langoliers (1990)
• The Library Policeman (1990)
• Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990)
• The Sun Dog (1990)
• A Very Tight Place (2008)
• N (2008)
• UR (2009)
• Blockade Billy (2010)
• Gwendy’s Button Box (2017, with Richard Chizmar)
• Elevation (2018)
• If It Bleeds (2020)
• The Life of Chuck (2020)
• Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2020)
• Rat (2020)

Short Stories

• Throttle (2009, with Joe Hill)

Story Collections

• Night Shift (1978)
• Different Seasons (1982)
• Skeleton Crew (1985)
• Four Past Midnight (1990)
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
• Six Stories (1996, limited edition chapbook)
• Hearts in Atlantis (1999, linked novellas/novel)
• Everything’s Eventual (2002)
• Just After Sunset (2008)
• Stephen King Goes to the Movies (2009)
• Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
• If It Bleeds (2020)
• You Like It Darker (2024)

Nonfiction

• Danse Macabre (1980)
• Nightmares in the Sky (1987, with f/words & photos)
• Mid-Life Confidential (1993, with Rock Bottom Remainders)
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (1999)
• Secret Windows (1999)
• Faithful (2005, with Stewart O’Nan)
• GUNS (2013)

Anthologies (featuring King contributions)

• Tales of Unknown Horror (1977)
• Best Detective Stories of the Year (1978)
• More Tales of Unknown Horror (1978)
• Nightmares (1978)
• The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1979)
• New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1979)
• Tales of the Dead (1979)
• Dark Forces (1980)
• Arbor House Treasury of Horror & the Supernatural (1980)
• Fantasy Annual IV (1980)
• Shadows (1980)
• Year’s Best Horror Stories – Series IX (1980)
• Fantasy Annual III (1981)
• Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
• Horrors (1981)
• A Fantasy Reader (1981)
• Arbor House Necropolis (1981)
• Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories (1981)
• Death (1981)
• The Do-It-Yourself Bestseller: A Workbook (1981)
• Terrors (1981)
• The Book of Lists #3 (1983)
• The Evil Image (1983)
• An International Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1983)
• Cults: An Anthology (1983)
• The Blackboard Jungle (1983)
• Magicats (1983)
• Fear Itself (1984)
• Isaac Asimov’s Magical World of Fantasy #4 (1984)
• New Terrors Omnibus (1985)
• New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985)
• Strange Maine (1985)
• Demons (1986)
• Masques II (1987)
• Dark Descent (1987)
• Night Visions 5 (1987)
• Prime Evil (1988)
• The Book of the Dead (1988)
• The Complete Masters of Darkness (1989)
• Best American Sports Writing, 1991 (1990)
• The Color of Evil (1990)
• I Shudder At Your Touch (1990)
• Shock Rock (1990)
• Midnight Graffiti (1992)
• Antaeus No. 75/76 (1994)
• Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (1994)
• Dark Love (1996)
• Dark Thoughts on Writing (1996)
• Legends (1997)
• Shadows 4 (1999)
• Borderlands 5 (2002)
• From the Borderlands (2002)
• McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury (2003)
• The Devil’s Wine (2004)
• Contemporary Maine Fiction (2004)
• The Garden of Reading (2004)
• Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters (2004)
• Transgressions (2004)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (2008)
• In the Shadow of the Master (2008)
• PostScripts (2009)
• He Is Legend (2009)
• Darkness (2009)
• Shivers VI (2009)
• The Very Best of Best New Horror (2009)
• The Century’s Best Horror Fiction Vol. II (2010)
• Light Speed: Year One (2010)
• The Weird (2010)
• Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2010)
• A Book of Horrors (2011)
• The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012)
• The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (2012)
• Shivers VII (2012)
• Hard Listening (2013)
• Qualia Nous (2013)
• Turn Down the Lights (2013)
• Woman – An Anthology (2014)
• Dark Screams: Vol. 1 (2014)
• Chiral Mad (2015)
• Hearts in Suspension (2016)
• In Sunlight or in Shadow (2016)
• Killer Crimes (2016)
• Shining in the Dark (2018)
• Flight or Fright (2018)

Limited Editions / Special Publications

• Firestarter (1979, pre-release limited ed.)
• The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1981)
• The Plant [Installments I–III] (1982–1984)
• Christine (1982, limited)
• Cycle of the Werewolf (1982, limited / later expanded)
• The Eyes of the Dragon (1983, limited)
• The Talisman (1983, limited)
• Skeleton Crew (1984, limited)
• The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1986)
• My Pretty Pony (1987, art book limited; 1989 trade ed.)
• Letters from Hell (1988)
• Dolan’s Cadillac (1988)
• The Stand: Complete & Uncut (1989, deluxe)
• Rose Madder (1994, limited)
• Desperation/The Regulators Box Set (1995)
• The Regulators (1995, limited)
• Desperation (1995, limited)
• Six Stories (1996)
• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1996, limited 2-part)
• The New Lieutenant’s Rap (1999)
• Black House (2001)
• From a Buick 8 (2001)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2002)
• The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2003)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
• The Secretary of Dreams, Vol. 1 (2005)
• The Colorado Kid (2006, artist editions)
• The Green Mile (2006, deluxe)
• The Little Sisters of Eluria (2009)
• Stephen King Goes to the Movies (2009, deluxe)
• Blockade Billy (2009/2010, deluxe)
• The Secretary of Dreams, Vol. 2 (2010)
• The Dark Man (2013)
• Doctor Sleep (2013)
• Joyland (2013)
• Revival (2019)
• Later (2021)
• The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
• Carrie (2013, deluxe)
• ‘Salem’s Lot (various deluxe eds. 2004, 2005, 2014)
• Misery (2018 deluxe)

Picture Books

• Hansel and Gretel (2025)

Interviews / Essays

• SCREEM #22 (2011, interview)
• The Genius of “The Tell-Tale Heart” (2008, essay)

Final Thoughts

If you love tracking the connective tissue of King’s universe-or you’re building a library-this bibliography should help you map the whole terrain. I’ll keep expanding the Short Stories section into a complete index (story → first publication → where it’s collected now) so you can find everything, down to the deep cuts.

If you came here for the novels & novellas reading order with series paths and starter recs, hop over to my streamlined guide: Stephen King Books in Order (1974-2025). And if you spot an edition or appearance I’ve missed, tell me in the comments-I’m always updating!