CJ’s Bucket List: King in Pub order

[CJ]

This is so much nicer than my handwritten list compiled on scraps of paper kept in my planner! It’s on my bucket list to read his books in publication order. Just started year three, definitely going to be over halfway done by the end of the year 🥳…


☑️ 1970’s 💃🏻
Carrie (1974)
Salem’s Lot (1975)
The Shining (1977)
Rage (1977)
Night Shift (1978)
The Stand (1978)
The Long Walk (1979)
The Dead Zone (1979)

☑️ 1980’s 🕹️
Firestarter (1980)
Roadwork (1981)
Danse Macabre (1981)
Cujo (1981)
The Running Man (1982)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
Different Seasons (1982)
Christine (1983)
Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
Pet Sematary (1983)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
The Talisman (1984) with Peter Straub
Thinner (1984)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
IT (1986)
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
Misery (1987)
The Tommyknockers (1987)
The Dark Half (1989)

☑️1990’s 📟
Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands (1991)
Needful Things (1991)
Gerald’s Game (1992)
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
Insomnia (1994)
Rose Madder (1995)
The Green Mile (1996)
Desperation (1996)
The Regulators (1996)
The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)
Bag of Bones (1998)
Storm of the Century (1999)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)

2000’s 💻
The Plant (2000)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)**
Dreamcatcher (2001)
Black House (2001)
Everything’s Eventual (2001)
From a Buick 8 (2002) 📖
The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower (2004)
Faithful (2004)
The Colorado Kid (2005)
Cell (2006)
Lisey’s Story (2006)
The Secretary of Dreams: Volume One (2006)
Blaze (2007) [by Richard Bachman]
Duma Key (2008)
Just After Sunset (2008)
Under the Dome (2009)

2010’s 📱
Blockade Billy (2010)
The Secretary of Dreams: Volume 2 (2010)
Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
11/22/63 (2011)
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
Joyland (2013)
The Dark Man (2013)
Doctor Sleep (2013)
Mr. Mercedes (2014)
Revival (2014)
Finders Keepers (2015)
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
End of Watch (2016)
Charlie the Choo-Choo (2016) [by Beryl Evans]
Gwendy’s Button Box (2017) with Richard Chizmar
Sleeping Beauties (2017) with Owen King
The Outsider (2018)
Flight or Fright (2018) coedited with Bev Vincent
Elevation (2018)
The Institute (2019)

2020’s 😷
If It Bleeds (2020)
Later (2021)
Billy Summers (2021)
Gwendy's Final Task (2022)
Fairy Tale (2022)
Holly (2023)
You Like It Darker (2024)
Never Flinch (2025)

**https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Kandice]

Good luck! I often wish I could experience his books for the first time again, but then I think about how I originally experienced them at assorted ages and realize it would never be the same.