The following is a complete list of books published by stephen king an american author of contemporary horror suspense science fiction and fantasy his books have sold more than 350 million copies and many of them have been adapted into feature films television movies and comic books king has published 62 novels including seven under the pen name richard bachman and five non fiction . Every stephen king book in chronological order exactly what it says on the tin all votes add books to this list 1 the institute by stephen king goodreads author 420 avg rating 147969 ratings score 121 and 2 people voted want to . Stephen kings first true novel was also one of his best known works carrie which was published in 1974 he has been writing ever since below is a list of stephen kings books in order of when they were originally published publication order of bill hodges trilogy books. A complete list of stephen kings novels and novellas organized alphabetically