King’s movies have generated over $1.7 billion at the box office
Stephen King has released a new publication on average every 20 weeks
How many books has Stephen King published?
Stephen King has published 64 novels
He has written over 200 short stories that have been released in books as short story collections
Stephen King has an alias – Richard Bachman. He has written 7 books as Richard Bachman
King has also released 11 collections of short stories and 5 non-fiction books
He has written a further 21 screenplays
King has an additional 16 publications that include children’s books, essays, and graphic novels
This brings the total published works of Stephen King to 119+
That equates to a release every 20 weeks between the release of his first novel in 1974 and his most recent novel in 2020.
What is Stephen King’s most popular book?
Stephen King has said the best book he has written is Lisey’s Story, which is a 528-page novel that was published in 2006
Having sold 350 million copies of his books, this works out at an average of 3.3 million copies per book on average when all novels, screenplays, childrens books and non-fiction books are included
Figures are famously unreliable, it was thought that The Shining had sold around 700,000 copies but this number is far too small for his most popular book in the context of 350 million books having been sold overall
Based on data from GoodReads and Amazon, the most popular books are:
#
Book Title
1
The Shining
2
The Stand
3
Carrie
4
IT
5
Pet Semetary
6
Misery
7
Salem’s Lot
8
Cujo
9
The Dead Zone
10
11/22/63
Stephen King novels in order
Year
Title
Pages
Audiobook Length
1974
Carrie
199
7 hrs and 22 mins
1975
Salem’s Lot
439
17 hrs and 36 mins
1977
The Shining
447
15 hrs and 49 mins
1977
Rage
211
–
1978
The Stand
823
47 hrs and 47 mins
1979
The Long Walk
384
10 hrs and 45 mins
1979
The Dead Zone
428
16 hrs and 12 mins
1980
Firestarter
426
14 hrs and 50 mins
1981
Roadwork
274
9 hrs and 38 mins
1981
Cujo
319
14 hrs and 7 mins
1982
The Running Man
219
7 hrs and 41 mins
1982
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
224
7 hrs and 19 mins
1983
Christine
526
19 hrs and 34 mins
1983
Pet Sematary
374
15 hrs and 41 mins
1983
Cycle of the Werewolf
127
–
1984
The Talisman
646
28 hrs
1984
The Eyes of the Dragon
326
10 hrs and 22 mins
1984
Thinner
309
10 hrs and 7 mins
1986
It
1138
44 hrs and 53 mins
1987
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
400
12 hrs and 45 mins
1987
Misery
310
12 hrs and 21 mins
1987
The Tommyknockers
558
27 hrs and 43 mins
1989
The Dark Half
431
15 hrs and 14 mins
1990
The Stand
1152
47 hrs and 47 mins
1991
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
512
18 hrs and 14 mins
1991
Needful Things
690
25 hrs and 11 mins
1992
Gerald’s Game
352
13 hrs and 33 mins
1992
Dolores Claiborne
305
9 hrs and 15 mins
1994
Insomnia
787
25 hrs and 39 mins
1995
Rose Madder
420
17 hrs and 22 mins
1996
The Green Mile
400
13 hrs and 53 mins
1996
Desperation
704
21 hrs and 15 mins
1996
The Regulators
480
12 hrs and 11 mins
1997
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
787
27 hrs and 35 mins
1998
Bag of Bones
529
21 hrs and 21 mins
1999
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
224
6 hrs and 29 mins
2001
Dreamcatcher
620
22 hrs and 47 mins
2001
Black House
625
26 hrs and 27 mins
2002
From a Buick 8
368
13 hrs and 23 mins
2003
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
714
26 hrs and 20 mins
2004
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
432
14 hrs and 9 mins
2004
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
845
28 hrs and 50 mins
2005
The Colorado Kid
184
3 hrs and 38 mins
2006
Cell
351
12 hrs and 36 mins
2006
Lisey’s Story
528
19 hrs and 21 mins
2007
Blaze
304
8 hrs and 13 mins
2008
Duma Key
607
21 hrs
2009
Under the Dome
1074
34 hrs and 24 mins
2011
11/22/63
849
30 hrs and 40 mins
2012
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
336
10 hrs and 26 mins
2013
Joyland
288
7 hrs and 33 mins
2013
Doctor Sleep
531
18 hrs and 34 mins
2014
Mr. Mercedes
436
14 hrs and 22 mins
2014
Revival
403
13 hrs and 24 mins
2015
Finders Keepers
434
13 hrs and 5 mins
2016
End of Watch
496
12 hrs and 53 mins
2017
Gwendy’s Button Box
175
2 hrs and 42 mins
2017
Sleeping Beauties
702
25 hrs and 22 mins
2018
The Outsider
576
18 hrs and 41 mins
2018
Elevation
144
3 hrs and 46 mins
2019
The Institute
576
18 hrs and 59 mins
2021
Later
256
6 hrs and 32 mins
2021
Billy Summers
528
16 hrs and 57 mins
2022
Gwendy’s Final Task
412
7 hrs and 23 mins
2022
Fairy Tale
599
24 hrs and 6 mins
What awards has Stephen King won?
Stephen King has won 107 awards
He has been nominated for over 200 awards
King has received lifetime awards from 19 different institutions, including:
Bram Stoker Award
British Fantasy Award
National Endowment of the Arts
His books have also won awards from institutions such as:
American Library Association
BBC
Entertainment Weekly
Hugo Award
International Horror Guild Award
The Shawshank Redemption movie was nominated for 7 Academy Awards in 1995 but didn’t win any
Stephen King has spoken on Twitter about some of his least favorite words that writers use. One is the 5-letter word “amaze” and especially using amazing to describe all events.
How many Stephen King books have been made into movies?
49 Stephen King titles have been turned into movies
Together, his movies have generated more than $1.7 billion at the box office
IT – Part 1: The Losers’ Club has been the most successful at the box office to date generating $330 million
IT Chapter Two generated $212 million
The Green Miler generated $136 million
1408 generated $72 million
Misery generated $62 million
Title
Release Date
1408
June 12th, 2007
1922
October 20th, 2017
A Good Marriage
October 03rd, 2014
Apt Pupil
October 23rd, 1998
Carrie
November 03rd, 1976
Cat’s Eye
April 12th, 1985
Cell
July 08th, 2016
Children of the Corn
March 09th, 1984
Christine
December 09th, 1983
Creepshow
November 10th, 1982
Creepshow 2
May 01st, 1987
Cujo
August 12th, 1983
Doctor Sleep
November 08th, 2019
Dolan’s Cadillac
July 01st, 2009
Dolores Claiborne
March 24th, 1995
Dreamcatcher
March 06th, 2003
Firestarter
May 13th, 2022
Gerald’s Game
September 29th, 2017
Graveyard Shift
October 26th, 1990
Hearts in Atlantis
September 28th, 2001
In the Tall Grass
October 04th, 2019
IT – Part 1: The Losers’ Club
September 08th, 2017
IT: Chapter Two
September 06th, 2019
Maximum Overdrive
July 25th, 1986
Mercy
December 14th, 2012
Misery
November 30th, 1990
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
October 05th, 2022
My Pretty Pony
April 06th, 2017
Needful Things
August 27th, 1993
Pet Sematary (1989)
April 21st, 1989
Pet Sematary (2019)
April 05th, 2019
Riding the Bullet
October 15th, 2004
Salem’s Lot
April 21st, 2023
Secret Window
March 12th, 2004
Silver Bullet
October 11th, 1985
Sleepwalkers
April 10th, 1992
Stand By Me
August 08th, 1986
Tales from the Darkside: The
May 04th, 1990
The Dark Half
April 23rd, 1993
The Dark Tower
August 04th, 2017
The Dead Zone
October 21st, 1983
The Green Mile
December 06th, 1999
The Mangler
March 03rd, 1995
The Mist
November 21st, 2007
The Night Flier
November 15th, 1997
The Running Man
November 13th, 1987
The Shawshank Redemption
September 23rd, 1994
The Shining
May 23rd, 1980
Thinner
October 25th, 1996
Stephen King’s early life
King was born in Maine in 1947
He was born on September 21st, sharing a birthday with Bill Murray, Leonard Cohen, Shinzo Abe, and Liam Gallagher.
King’s father left when he was two years old
King was raised as a Methodist but is no longer religious
Despite this, he has said that he chooses to believe that there is a God
King found a collection of short stories by H. P. Lovecraft in his attic and he credits this book as his inspiration for wanting to be an author
How did Stephen King become a writer?
King began writing for fun in school
He sold stories to his classmates but his teachers found out and wouldn’t let him keep the money
His first published work was I Was a Teenage Grave Robber
It was published in a magazine in 1965 when King was 18
King went to The University of Maine and got a BA in English
While at university, King wrote a column for the student newspaper
King was writing a short story in 1973, gave up, and decided to trash it
His wife took it from the trash and encouraged him to finish it. The short story became a novel called Carrie – his first to be published.
King has said he thought that he had written a terrible book at the time
