Stephen King

Books by Stephen King

Just After Sunset

by Stephen King
- Hardcover, 367 pages
The Wind Through The Keyhole

by Stephen King
- Hardcover, 309 pages
On Writing

A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King
- CD/Spoken Word, 8 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.)
Under the Dome

by Stephen King
- Hardcover, 1074 pages
The Stand

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 1439 pages
11/22/63

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 849 pages
It

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 1138 pages
The Gunslinger

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 231 pages
The Shining

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 683 pages
Full Dark, No Stars

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 386 pages
The Dead Zone

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 402 pages
Joyland

by Stephen King
- Paperback, 288
Duma Key

by Stephen King
- Hardcover, 611 pages

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Author Interviews

Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared

May 28, 2013 2:56 PM

"The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. The book, set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973, is part horror novel and part supernatural thriller. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.

Stephen King delves into the seedy underworld of carnies for his latest novel, Joyland.

PG-13: Risky Reads

Grotesque Horror Through A Kid-Sized Window

by Erin Morgenstern

July 31, 2012 4:00 PM

Stephen King's It showed Erin Morgenstern that the demons and ghouls of childhood stories don't hit the road just because you grow up. Have you read something that both scared and enticed you? Tell us about it in the comments.

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History With Teeth: JFK, Columbus The Conqueror And ... Shark!

July 25, 2012 7:00 AM

Stephen King returns to the scene of JFK's assassination, while Ali Smith presents an intricate tale of a dinner party gone wrong. In nonfiction, Charles C. Mann reassesses Columbus, Juliet Eilperin investigates sharks, and Paul Hendrickson revisits Hemingway.

Three Books...

Jargon To Jabberwocky: 3 Books On Writing Well

by Jonathan Gottschall

April 18, 2012 5:47 PM

Jonathan Gottschall is an English professor fed up with academia's ugly jargon. He recommends three books that help writers with their prose. Has a book ever helped you with your composition skills? Tell us about it in the comments.

Author Interviews

Stephen King Plots To Save JFK In '11/22/63'

by NPR Staff

November 13, 2011 3:17 AM

In King's latest novel, a high-school teacher travels back in time to try to stop an assassination that altered the course of American history. "11/22/63 was our 9/11," says King, who first thought of the idea for the book on the anniversary of President Kennedy's death in 1971.

Stephen King came up with the idea for 11/22/63 in 1971, but at the time he wasn't ready to take on a project of such scope. Perhaps it was for the best: "I think that the wounds were a little bit too fresh then," King says. "I'm glad that I waited."

Book Reviews

Where Were You? Stephen King Recasts JFK's '11/22/63' Killing

by Michael Schaub

November 08, 2011 9:24 AM

In King's latest novel, 11/22/63, a high school teacher is recruited to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The masterful science fiction writer revisits a real American horror story — a day when truth was scarier than fiction.

Book Reviews

Book Review: '11/22/63'

by Alan Cheuse

November 01, 2011 3:00 PM

Stephen King could probably turn a book about paint drying into a bestseller. His newest effort, though, has loftier ambitions. It's about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a what-if science fiction take on a subject that's been tackled over and over again by historians.

Summer Books 2011

Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

August 11, 2011 8:58 AM

More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. Explore the winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey — an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.

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On The Lookout: For Love, For Thanks, For Horror And Wall Street

May 25, 2011 2:02 PM

Summer reading picks are on the way: the movie tie-in edition of David Nicholl's U.K. sensation One Day and the latest from John Grisham and Stephen King. In nonfiction, it's time to get superfreaky about economics, and comedian Jimmy Fallon offers a little thanks.

My Guilty Pleasure

Proud And Unpretentious: Lessons From John Irving

by Joshua Braff

August 16, 201011:45 AM

When Joshua Braff was an M.F.A. student, his classmates smirked when he announced that John Irving was one of his favorite authors. But he's proud of his love for The World According to Garp; Braff says Irving's characters live and breathe before, during and after the story ends.

Author Interviews

Stephen King: The 'Craft' Of Writing Horror Stories

July 02, 201012:00 PM

While writer Stephen King was recovering from a near-fatal car accident, he finished a nonfiction book about the craft of writing. In a 2000 interview with Terry Gross, King talked about the demons that haunted him after the accident — and how writing helped his recovery process.

What We're Reading

What We're Reading, Nov. 17 - 23, 2009

November 17, 200912:00 AM

This week's staff picks: Biographies from bad-boy Andre Agassi and 'Rogue' politician Sarah Palin. Stephen King returns to form in a new novel, Zadie Smith fascinates in collected essays, and science writer Nicholas Wade argues that God is just an evolutionary adaptation.

Three Books...

Good Dad, Bad Dad And Something In Between

by Stacy Saunders

June 18, 200912:00 AM

In celebration of Father's Day, here are three enthralling books about a few different dads — not all of whom know best.

Best Books of 2008

Give A Book (And Yourself) This Holiday Season

by Alan Cheuse

December 12, 200810:40 AM

If reading a story is — as John Gardner said — like falling into a vivid and continuous waking dream, then is giving a book like giving someone a dream? Reviewer Alan Cheuse puzzles over the perfect books for your loved ones this year.

Book Reviews

Macabre Master Stephen King Returns To Form

by Lizzie Skurnick

November 13, 2008 9:53 AM

After a flirtation with literary fiction, King returns with Just After Sunset, a collection of lurid, gore-spattered tales that can be both horrifying and heartbreaking.

Book Reviews

Melodrama, Terror Propel New Grisham, King Books

by Alan Cheuse

January 15, 2008 3:01 PM

Alan Cheuse makes a prediction for forthcoming novels from John Grisham and Stephen King. Grisham's The Appeal centers on a $41 million jury award to a Mississippi woman whose family died at the hands of a chemical company; King's Duma Key features an evil genie who goes after a man in the Florida Keys.

Books

'Guys Read:' Encouraging Boys to Love Books

May 12, 200512:00 AM

Jon Scieszka, a children's author and former teacher, wants boys to read more. His new book Guys Write for Guys Read is a collection of stories, comics and advice on boyhood by best-selling authors and illustrators.

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