Stephen King Top 50 - All of the Stephen King books I've read rated and ranked!

This was meant to be part 3 of my library tour, but it ended up growing arms and legs. Watch me discuss all 58 of the books by horror legend Stephen King that I've read and rank them. Plus show all 48 of the physical King books I own. Get yourself a cup of tea and some biscuits before you start though, it’s a long one.

Books discussed:
Lisey's Story
Black House
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah
Doctor Sleep
Duma Key
Sleeping Beauties
Later
The Tommyknockers
Cell
Blaze
Bag of Bones
From a Buick 8
The Regulators
Desperation
Hearts in Atlantis
Needful Things
Full Dark, No Stars
If It Bleeds
Everything’s Eventual
Insomnia
Thinner
Cycle of the Werewolf
Rose Madder
The Gunslinger
The Eyes of the Dragon
Four Past Midnight
Firestarter
The Bachman Books
Different Seasons
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Green Mile
Wizard and Glass
The Wastelands
Cujo
Mr Mercedes
Under the Dome
Just After Sunset
Gwendy's Button Box
The Dead Zone
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Talisman
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
The Drawing of the Three
Gerald’s Game
Misery
Skeleton Crew
Joyland
The Stand
Revival
The Outsider
The Dark Half
‘Salem’s Lot
11.22.63
Dolores Claiborne
End of Watch
The Colorado Kid
Finders Keepers
Pet Sematary
It
Christine
Carrie
Night Shift
The Shining
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[Aliensalvation]

Needful Things is a King classic! I guess everyone has there own opinions but for me that’s top 10 everyday

[paulao]

I discovered Stephen King in high school when I read Carrie. It was the first book I remember enjoying reading, and not being a chore. Dolores Claiborne is my favorite King book, not just for the story but for the structure of the book... wow. I also really enjoyed The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon because it was unlike his usual horror plot. I think King is a genius at character development.

[candeelee]

recently found your channel and must say i am thrilled. i was an avid reader, but due to health havent been able to concentrate long enough to enjoy anymore. finding your channel has made keenly aware how much i miss reading and even though i cant physically read anymore i can listen to most titles online or some app. i look so forward to watching more of your videos and my list of must "reads" is growing. kudos

[hannahmorgan]

I’ll never forget reading Night Shift for the first time and reading scary story after scary story and then he just put The Last Rung on the Ladder right in the middle. I will never emotionally recover

[johnward]

Read the cycle of the werewolf when I was in middle school and I LOVED IT back then. I'm not saying it's great, but it was quite good as I remember... short but fun.

[lindseywarren]

Hullo, Ollie! So.... about The Tommyknockers. I am a Scot and my Mum was English. She is the person who introduced me to Mr. King and I've been a fan since a child (I am 57 now). She loved to read aloud to my sister and me and even now when I pick up one of his older books, I hear her Cockney accent in my head 😊My Mum insisted that Mr. King's wife Tabby was the actual author of Tommyknockers. She was so invested in this idea that she wrote him a letter. To our shock, he wrote her back! Thus began an approx 15 year span of correspondence between him and my Mum. She was enormously well-read, very intelligent and quite outspoken in her opinions. Mr. King is an amazingly kind person and seemed to delight in her acerbic wit and critique of his books. I may not have loved every book he has written, but I own them all and I will always love him for being so respectful and lovely to my mother. She never told anyone but close family about her famous correspondent. My sister has all of the letters carefully put away in a vault and roughly every couple of years, we take them out and read them (aloud in a bad Cockney accent! 😉) Love and Bless xo EDIT: The Stand, IT, Pet Sematary and Salem's Lot are my top 4. Night Shift was my 1st. Read feverishly in the back of my parent's old station wagon on a trip home from holiday. I finished it, turned it over and read it again. Loved it.

[heather]

Okay, so about 15 years ago I decided to reread King’s novels. I grew up in Bangor, Maine, had photos of King’s mansion, and did my very first book report on King (with much dismay from a teacher with a raised eyebrow).

I wanted to reread to see if the writing was up to par after having grown up. For some reason, I thought the work to be amateur-ish; however, upon rereading The Shining, I was proven absolutely wrong! So incredibly beautiful!!

I did learn, in my adolescent report, that King would turn his desk, such that his back was against the wall in his chair so he could see outward and disallow the opportunity for anything/anyone to creep up behind him.

Your choices are yours to own!! My favorites are around the Marsten house, but I love so many!! His work held up for me. Excellent journeys!!

[darnell]

I remember picking up Insomnia a long time ago and read a little bit of it. What I read I enjoyed but for some reason put it down. I may try and give it a go again sometime. 11/22/63 is my favourite King novel, with Under the Dome coming at a close second. Great video and nice collection!

[darkangelkate]

Thank you Olly. I truly enjoyed That and the way you divided them up. Some of the books you mentioned I had not heard of and will definitely look into some of them. My favourites are The Stand, Salem's Lot, Dolores Claiborne, Christine and Misery. Take care of you and keep doing what you are doing 🧙

[chervansickle]

I'm a huge SK fan and I enjoyed this video. I really loved seeing all of the UK editions with covers I have never seen.

[liamness]

Loved watching this and have a similar view as you to the rankings. For me revival was the novel that got me into stephen king so it is nice to see someone who gives the novel some love as I do feel it is a good novel

[SaharaKnoblauch]

It was great listening to you talk about why you liked or didn’t like all these books, impressive collection! Thanks for sharing the video!

[mimi]

many thanks for taking the time to compile your lists and create this video. I have read the hardcover version of 'Salem's Lot numerous times and I think that one along with The Shining are my favorites. best wishes from south Florida 🏖

[Monsterblood]

Wow, what an undertaking! I'll have to get back once I've finished this video 😁
I've only read about 6 or 7 King novels so far lol

[michaelk.vaughan]

Excellent! Your hauling down all those books was well worth it!

[lilarose]

Oh wow, 5 minutes in and one of the only books you haven't read by him is my all time favorite of his (Lisey's Story) lol. I know a lot of people skip over that one or put it low on their lists but something about it really stuck with me. I hope you'll enjoy it when you do read it!

[amandacallahan]

I will politely disagree about Bag of Bones. I loved the story and the imagery of the story. I have read it and listened to it.

[heloisaduarte]

I loved your list, I recognized it was a real effort to rank all Stephen King's books we know it is huge!! My first books from Stephen King came from the local library starting with Carrie, Pet Semetary, Dead Zone, Shinning, and It... But the one in the beginning which really hurt me to the point of being in my head till today (30 years later) was Christine. Serious, I was in my high school and I could feel the pain of the boy who bought the car. The pain, rage, and incapacity to change the impression that people had about him. That is when King took my soul forever.

[_Mike.]

Very interesting rankings! I find it so funny how every King fan I know or have listened to online have so many widely varying opinions on which ones are their faves and which ones aren't... the rankings are totally different every time. Maybe that's King's genius right there! Also, I got far too excited at your kitties two seconds of fame in this video. Let him hang out more! 😅

[LiterateTexan]

Loved this video. Makes me want to go back and reread all these. I liked how sentimental you seemed when you pointed out the first Stephen King book that you bought. I feel that way about The Dead Zone, which I bought for fifty cents at a garage sale.