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Stephen King — Connected Multiverse

edited 2026-05-21

A reading order for the Stephen King books connected by the Dark Tower mythology — the eight Dark Tower novels themselves plus the major tie-in works King has woven into Roland Deschain's quest, including 'Salem's Lot, The Stand, The Talisman, Black House, Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, The Eyes of the Dragon, and It. Covers both publication and internal-chronological orders for the Dark Tower spine, and lists the principal filmed adaptations.

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01NOVEL
1982The opening volume of Stephen King's Dark Tower cycle, collecting five linked novellas first serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science…
224 pp
02NOVEL
1987The second Dark Tower novel, set hours after the conclusion of The Gunslinger. Roland, dying of poison from a lobstrosity bite on a deserted…
400 pp
03NOVEL
1991The third Dark Tower novel, picking up months after The Drawing of the Three. Roland, Eddie, and Susannah (the reconciled Odetta/Detta) cros…
512 pp
04NOVEL
1997The fourth Dark Tower novel, which resolves the Blaine the Mono cliffhanger and then doubles back into Roland's youth. The ka-tet emerges in…
787 pp
05NOVEL
2003The fifth Dark Tower novel, set in the farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis on the borderlands of Thunderclap. Every generation the Wolve…
714 pp
06NOVEL
2004The sixth Dark Tower novel, published five months before the concluding volume. Susannah, now sharing her body with the demon Mia, jumps to…
432 pp
07NOVEL
2004The seventh and concluding volume of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, published five months after Song of Susannah. The ka-tet converges in…
845 pp
08NOVEL
2012A standalone Dark Tower novel published eight years after the original series concluded, set internally between Wizard and Glass and Wolves…
336 pp