The Next Ten Stephen King Books I’m Going to Read

[@GrammaticusBooks]

My wife was listening in the background and suddenly shouted out "Stephen King was Richard Bachman?!?!". Lol! Good video MKV!

[@DanielsBibliophagy]

Michael outed Stephen King, I can't believe it!

[@gunsmokeandghouls]

Don't tell her who Joe Hill's dad is ... 😂

[@GrammaticusBooks]

@@DanielsBibliophagy I know Right?

[@GrammaticusBooks]

@@gunsmokeandghouls Hah!

[@ffridiejr]

I stopped re-reading King's older work. Younger me loved them. The older me hates them. I am now content to keep the good memories of those older works intact.

[@DavidWiley7]

I have only fond memories of that wheel spin! I'm still plugging away (slowly) at Ray Bradbury, too. Good luck this year with your King reads!

[@CliffsDarkGems]

Great video! I am also in the slow process of reading everything by Stephen King. Skeleton Crew is my favorite short story collection and I still revisit it from time to time. I love The Dark Tower series and would love to re-read it before I die. That cover and pictures for Nightmares in the Sky is so awesome!

[@revenantreads]

I’m starting my own Stephen King read-through this year (though I’m sticking to books I already own, which is still substantial). I won’t catch up to you but it’ll be fun watching your videos as I follow in your path.

[@arekkrolak6320]

I'm on a similar challenge - it is to read one more book by Stephen King :)

[@LadyJaneBooks]

I am reading Sleeping Beauties by SK right now!

[@BenderBrains]

I enjoy your channel with the humor thrown in. Hopefully we can see a ranking of which Stephen King books your enjoyed the most some day. I am currently reading his Dark Tower series.

[@disakland4714]

My favorite is The Long Walk, you’re in for a treat!!

[@freelivefree7221]

I remember liking the novellas in Four Past Midnight, though The Library Policeman has a scene that is almost as disturbing as that infamous one in IT.

[@Sadler4]

It would be pretty cool to see you go over Lee Falk's The Phantom. It would be awesome seeing videos like The Robert E. Howard show, The Edgar Rice Burroughs show or like what you did with The Shadow videos but for Lee Falk's The Phantom. If you haven't read, maybe go over what you think of the character and author?

[@disakland4714]

I have been doing this too, but I’m starting over and doing publication order too. I just kept choosing my faves 😂 Not doing non-fiction though or screenplays. I want to do this for Wilbur Smith too.

[@2024FingersCrossed]

Just finished Thinner, I really liked it.

[@duffypratt]

I remember enjoying Rage when it came out, but that was in a much less sensitized world. The “horror” that you mentioned at the start was hilarious; the issue with King is that he seems to have written as many books as Burroughs, but they are all as long as War and Peace. I’m currently in the middle of The Dark Tower series, which I’ve never read before. (I went on a King binge in the early eighties and caught up to him with Pet Sematary, I think. Have only read a few books since, having decided that it was not a good idea to read an author who could write faster than I could read.)

[@Kite562reviews]

I'm debating still on reading The Dark Half or Delores Claybourn. I love how some novels or novellas of Kings are so well layered in my opinion. 🙂❤📚

[@sadewebb]

Im reading Dolores Claiborne right now it's a good book but a slow start but that it how Stephen king's books are

[@Kite562reviews]

@@sadewebb oh I do enjoy a slow burn story.

[@DanielsBibliophagy]

I just read through the Bachman books last year. They are enjoyable but not as strong as his short story collections. I really want to re-read it, which I love (except for THAT scene).

[@knittymama570]

I'm gonna reread Cujo and Green Mile and the Gwendy series sometime this year.

[@glockensig]

I wish James Michener would have come up on your wheel......although I'm sure Stephen wing-ding pulls in more viewers!

[@BookBlather]

I haven’t read Thinner, but enjoyed the movie. I’m committed to reading a couple Dark Tower books this year. I’ve never heard of that Nightmares in the Sky, but it looks incredible! I remember watching the movie adaptation of the Langoliers when I was younger and really being riveted by it.

[@tonette6592]

Just barely made it through Carrie. I am so glad that he mellowed his works. At least you will get the Gunslinger, etc. in order. You will see the progression of the series. Pay attention; it may all be in the same universe, as many characters and stories overlap, like Hearts in Atlantis as the beginning of beginning of the Dark Tower and then a surprising one between Joyland and Revival.

[@Vicshade]

I have such great memories of reading the Shining as a kid and having to find and read everything by King. It was a much smaller list then. I fell off while trying to read the Talisman…just could not get through it. I’ve read some of the more popular books since but not many. Who can keep up? Guy’s so prolific.

[@wouterl5316]

The mist is the one story that actually scared me when I read it many years ago.

[@ThisJustInBookTube]

I thought I had a copy of Bare Bones but I don’t see it in the obvious places. I’ll keep an eye out for it.

[@Obsessive-reader]

You have inspired me to read some more Stephen King. That’s very interesting about Rage, I didn’t know about that. I need to see if I can find it now.

[@Spacejack-xx2yp]

It has a couple of really visceral scenes but they're not the main plot scenes, it's in the character exposition

[@adriennelee26]

I wouldn't attempt to read everything by Stephen King, even though he's my favorite author by far, because I'm not at all interested in fantasy. I'm currently listening to Pet Sematary on audio (I've read the physical book twice before; it's tied with The Shining for my favorite) and reading Finders Keepers for the first time. The Dark Half is really good. I also really enjoyed Four Past Midnight.

[@briteskin]

If you count my reread of Cujo that I finished yesterday my next 9 King reads I have planned for the year are the eight Dark Tower books and the forthcoming ' 'You Like it Darker'. All Dark Tower are rereads minus a reedit of book 1 and first read of book 4.5. Not sure which first reads/new attempts to finish books I will read afterwards to finish a book a month but the fiction mass market novels I never read/finished are: Roadwork, From a Buick 8, Elevation, Billy Summers, Gwendy's Final Task, and I am not sure about Just After Sunset when I look at the story titles I can't tell you anything about any of the stories except 'N' because there was a comic version. So after 40 years of a constant reader finally can say I read all the easily available fiction, soon. Well a year or two.

[@Creek54]

You can borrow that missing Stephen King book from a friend or the local library and not mess with your challenge. Also be thankful that you don't have to read all of somebody like James Patterson. omg...114 books so far!

[@DamnableReverend]

Remember when Stephen King was saying he was probably going to retire from writing after another book or so? That would ahve made your job so much easier. That said I'm glad he's in the midst of a sort of renaissance these days, even though, to tell the truth, i am a bit ambivalent about his actual writing and books. I've usually enjoyed the process of reading them, but afterwards, sometimes I question whether they were really that good. And yes, many are too long. I love him in the short story form, especially Night Shift. Skeleton Crew is very good but also has some early King stabs at being "literary" that I don't care for -- the story "Word Processor of the Gods" made me angry with the writer and that's never a good sign -- some great stuff in there though. Maybe it's because I'm ambivalent about King in general that I didn't mind the Tommyknockers....it turned out to be science fiction and I thought that was kind of cool. The book is also batsh*t insane, which might, I understand, be attributed to King's affinity for cocaine at the time.

[@2024FingersCrossed]

I'm working on that goal as well. I'm about to start Christine.

[@MagusMarquillin]

It was more then the subject matter of Rage that made King pull it from publication (there's still a school shooting story in Night Shift), it was that the story had probably inspired four separate school shootings/foiled shootings where the perp had a copy or tried to pull off a class therapy session just like the protagonist. That kind of legacy was too much for King's conscience, and the publisher agreed. It's not a great loss to literature, King was still an angsty teen himself when he wrote it, but it's still an interesting read, magnified by it's dark influence. I'm about ten books behind you on my read everything SK wrote challenge - gotta commit to the Stand soon.

[@troytradup]

I don't know that you need to count Bare Bones. It's not technically BY Stephen King. I think Rage is interesting even if it's not a great book -- you can sort of see Stephen King becoming Stephen King.

[@bigaldoesbooktube1097]

The video recommended to me to follow this one is a ‘2023 most disappointing reads’ video with a picture of The Tommyknockers 🙈

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Ha!

[@markw.loughton6786]

his last great book was Revival, after that you can ignore.The running man movie is awesome 👌 There is a controversy with regards to the running man book, it was a knock off of a robert sheckley book.

[@إسماعيلسعيد-خ8ذ]

Hello Michael Hello. Which titles are the essential Stephen King in your opinion ?Would you include Pet Semetaty , DESPERATION , and. IT among the ESSENTIAL STEPHEN KING? I watched Thinner Movie a few days ago when I was bedridden after a surgery in my neck It was a good movie .Thanks for your excellent videos

[@tonette6592]

I love the way he writes. I suggest looking into The Dark Tower series; it's long. Joyland may be my favorite and you will find surprise overlaps between stories. There is a theory that all of the stories are in one universe.

[@jakeschell3941]

Hey the clock is back

[@lisagarrity5836]

CCC library doesn't have Bare Bones but have you considered asking them to get it for you through interlibrary loan? You won't have bought it so it wouldn't count against the challenge.

[@DDB168]

Did you know you've infected Vin (Revenant Reads) ? He's reading (every?) Stephen King now. As is criminolly. Thanks for that. 🤭

[@inanimatecarbongod]

It's not so much the number of King's books as the sheer size of most of them that puts me off trying more of them. That stepback cover for Misery is brilliant. King himself says Tommyknockers is one of his worst books cos he was at the peak of his coke habit when he wrote it.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

If you believe in reincarnation you could read IT cause it takes two lives to finish it.

[@stephennootens916]

I got about half way through It before I put the book down telling myself I would read more later. That was probably two years ago. I had real trouble getting through the sections were one or another kids form the Loser club finds themselves on their own and Bower and his gang shows up. There is something about those scenes with Bower and how King is able to get into the kids head that just hits me hard. Give me a child eating clown any day.