The Last Stephen King Ranking You'll Ever Need

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Every time I want to read a King book, I read everyone's ranking lists first. By then, I'm no longer in the mood to read a King book. So I solved that problem by making an epic ranking with all the King books and all the King lists, and now I never have to look up a list again!
📝 Here is the link to the google spreadsheet with the data/ranking:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:35 The List
01:33 The Data
01:59 Top 11
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
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📚 Night Shift
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📚 The Green Mile
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📚 Duma Key
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📚 On Writing (nonfiction)
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📚 Drawing of the Three
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📚 Pet Sematary
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📚 The Stand
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📚 Misery
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📚 The Shining
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📚 11/22/63
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📚 It
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@tomschaumleffel 2 ай бұрын

Stephen King's memoir "On Writing" is a must read for writers. Isn't it ironic that one of the greatest horror writers almost died in a grewsome way? Also, the fact that arguably the greatest writer of our time almost die before this book was complete gives it more of a reason to read it as he does talk about the experience briefly in the book.

@beccacarrillo 7 ай бұрын

If you loved The Green Mile movie, you do yourself a disservice by not reading the amazing book. I read it as it was written and released, one part every six weeks and each "chapter" available at places like Target and the grocery store. It was wonderful to read it that way...and then to read it again in its entirety. I really hope you read it. You will hear the actors as you do. I bet you'll agree that they were perfectly cast.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

That movie hit me so deep. I haven’t seen it since it came out and I still think about it. So I know I would love the book, I just haven’t been able to bring myself to read it yet. That sounds like such a cool way to read it too!

@Darapsa 5 ай бұрын

I read it the same way, except by checking out each chapbook from the library. It really was a fun experience.

@verwesne8121 17 күн бұрын

If you read The book, you will get more Appreciation for the great movie adaption whole at the same time realize how much better ( of course ) the story in the book is as a whole. It’s just perfection. And the book brings you much more feeling and emotional aspects the movie comes short due to time limitation.

@DaveShaves44 6 ай бұрын

It and 11/22/63 are my top 2 I’ve read all his books. He has so many incredible books but those two are absolute perfection imo. I read them every Oct and Nov

@DrawntoBooks 6 ай бұрын

I loved It, haven’t read 11/22/63 yet though, I think I need to bc everyone loves it!

@anthonyriccio8487 3 ай бұрын

Personally can’t put a book above wizard and glass just absolutely fabulous

@Alex-sr3ez 2 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBooks11/22/63 has everything an avid reader would want. Intrigue, suspense, conspiracy theory, time travel, romance, karma/revenge, nostalgia about the past, heroic sacrifice, etc. I’ve read the book twice (and it IS a door-stopper in length) and seen the TV series twice. Definitely in my top 5 SK books of all time.

@Alex-sr3ez 2 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBookshere’s and idea: do a top 10 list of the scariest I-can’t-read-with-the-lights-off King books. IT and The Shining would be my personal top 2.

@breakmylegs7294 3 күн бұрын

11/23/63 and the Stand are very overrated@@DrawntoBooks

@rachelh9985 7 ай бұрын

I’ve never finished a Stephen King book (I have a habit of flitting between books and I put down 11/22/63 and forgot to pick it backup) but now I know where to try again. I just found your videos and they are so good, high quality production, interesting and fun. Looking forward to the next one.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I do the same, I end up being in the middle of 15 books sometimes 🙈

@carson9464 3 ай бұрын

Also another fact, king also has said that misery is also a metaphor for his cocaine addiction.

@SpartanCL1989 8 ай бұрын

This is an incredible video! I thought this would have been done by a page with thousands of subs. Keep up the incredible work, you are awesome!

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Wow, that's so nice, thank you very much, that means a lot to me!

@fletchercalderbank8498 4 ай бұрын

What the hell this is some of the greatest content I’ve seen created on here thank you so much for this thing 😭😭😭

@DrawntoBooks 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🫶

@lukeandliz 2 ай бұрын

My next pro move, start reading at #79 and work my way up the list so every book gets better, tysm for the docs sheet!

@benb.8170 7 ай бұрын

Congrats on how hard your last video popped. I subscribed and are only encourage you to keep doing what you are doing. 🎉

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I appreciate the encouragement!

@Karin_Allen 5 ай бұрын

What a nice surprise to see Duma Key in the Top 10! I personally loved it, but I didn't know so many other people loved it as much as I did. Of course, I was also thrilled to see 11/22/63 near the top, but I wasn't as surprised about that one. Thanks for working so hard to come up with a comprehensive list!

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

I need to read Duma Key, it sounds so good!

@Karin_Allen 5 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBooks It's pretty amazing, even for Stephen King.

@finslaw 4 ай бұрын

Good job, and thanks for the spreadsheet. Having browsed many rankings I am not surprised about Duma Key, but I am shocked Salem's Lot (many #1s) is lower than the similar Needful Things.

@captaingreen4116 7 ай бұрын

Wow, this channel is incredibly underrated! Subscribed ❤

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! 🫶

@chriswald7700 9 ай бұрын

This list comes handy because I recently decided to read and re-read King's books. As a teen a started reading his works but stopped because I found the endings of his (back than) "newer" books "The Dark Half", "The Tommyknockers" and "Needul Things" as well as "The Stand" (back then the "short" version) after reading hundreds of pages disappointing. But re-reading "It" and reading "'Salem's Lot" the first time got me hooked again.

@DrawntoBooks 9 ай бұрын

Yeah I was so surprised at how many people don’t like The Stand! Everyone loves Misery though, I think I might have to try that one. And Pet Sematary, but I dunno if I can stomach that one!

@chriswald7700 9 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBooks I can recommend "Misery" as well as "Pet Sematary". If you have seen the first movie version of "Pet Seminary" you might be prepared for what to expect. I find the ending of "Cujo" much sadder though. Regarding "The Stand": The part when the acopolypse happens is really great. Then the story drags ans drags and drags... ;-)

@DrawntoBooks 8 ай бұрын

@@chriswald7700 I agree 100% about The Stand! I absolutely love the beginning part of that book, but then when they get to Boulder, ugh.

@Kite562reviews 6 ай бұрын

I have to say Salem's Lot and The Stand (uncut edition) are my two favorite King novels. I have many other King novels stories lovingly stored in my heart for the experience they gave me reading them over the years. I love how layered King's stories are. 🙂❤📚

@manojprabhakar9111 Ай бұрын

Great video. Keep it coming

@reversesentry 9 ай бұрын

This was awesome, thanks!

@DrawntoBooks 9 ай бұрын

Yay, glad you like it! 😁

@carstendoig3010 7 ай бұрын

I remember when 11/22/63 came out that I felt it was his best work in years. I find it interesting to see that it is so high in the overall list which shows that it wasn't just me that liked it. I've read (just about) everything by king and next up for me is 'Holly'.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Definitely not just you, it is interesting that it was rolling around in his head for so long before he actually wrote it, maybe that added to it being so good. I don't think he's written anything as great since either, though I have admittedly not read everything by him.

@StarWarrior91 Ай бұрын

11/22/63 was my first Stephen King book this year and I loved it

@jaredschwartz1461 6 ай бұрын

Love the list and the formula you used to produce it. Would love a copy of your spreadsheet if you’re willing to share. Did you get around to reading Duma Key? I just listened to it for the second time a few days ago. Funny, terrifying, gutting. Really can’t go wrong.

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

I haven’t yet, I like to read a King book every October so maybe this year! the spreadsheet is linked in the description, but I’ll link it here too, enjoy :) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hUwls-rBCPVWIwLRqRBPv5XKhhUirh8db3YMi9treXU/edit?usp=sharing

@valliyarnl Ай бұрын

Amazing editing

@gpfraser1 7 ай бұрын

Great video and channel - subscribed! :)

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@kevintowle9665 3 ай бұрын

Great video!!!!

@papajohnloki 6 ай бұрын

lots of fun-keep going

@DrawntoBooks 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@penaltypineapple8671 7 ай бұрын

The Stand is probably one of my favourite books oat and I was baffled when it showed up at #5… but after reading some opinions I can see why the latter half would kinda put people off. Still, it holds a place for me

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

It’s one of my favorite King books that I’ve read, but I do agree that the first half is much stronger

@caseyboughton6641 3 ай бұрын

Thinner I thought would finish higher, although the ending blew. Terrific list [and METHOD!]. The Shining, Misery and It are definitely on my To-Read list. Thanks DTB!

@DrawntoBooks 3 ай бұрын

The Shining is a great one, probably my favorite Stephen King!

@kristofbarta8712 6 ай бұрын

No, I'm definitely not someone who started comparing Stephen King novel ranking lists in a spreadsheet just to get a list that's as close to general opinion as possible, and someone who came here because they thought you're also going to do a ranking of your own opinion, and someone who is now utterly surprised by the fact that this idea could ever cross a sane person's mind. No, I'm definitely not. (You won't stop me though, I started this sheet yesterday, and I'll keep on.)

@DrawntoBooks 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha this is hilarious! Honestly, I wouldn’t trust me anyways 😂

@Creshaw 5 ай бұрын

I need to see your list too LOL

@kristofbarta8712 5 ай бұрын

@@Creshaw Alright, here it is with a few details: so far, I have only 21 opinions - none of them are critics, only fans, but not all were anglophones - but I'll update the list when I find others. Only KZfaq rankings included, with at least 25 rankable entries, and only if it contains all books the ranker has read. All 75 novels and short story collections published before Holly are included. The algorithm I used is the following: in a list, I'll write the corresponding rank for each book - if it isn't ranked, it gets a zero. After that, each books gets a score which is (rankNumber)/(sum of rank numbers on the list). (E.g. if a book is ranked 23. in a ranking of 31 books it gets a score of 23/(1+2+...+31).) The final ranking is based on the average of the scores. IDK why I came up with all that, but with all that said, here's the final ranking: 75. Roadwork 74. Elevation 73. Rage 72. Cell 71. Gwendy's Button Box 70. The Colorado Kid 69. The Running Man 68. The Regulators 67. Blaze 66. Cycle of the Werewolf 65. From a Buick 8 64. Sleeping Beauties 63. Thinner 62. Insomnia 61. The Gunslinger 60. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 59. Later 58. Nightmares & Dreamscapes 57. End of Watch 56. The Tommyknockers 55. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 54. Rose Madder 53. Dreamcatcher 52. The Outsider 51. Bag of Bones 50. Joyland 49. The Black House 48. The Wind Through the Keyhole 47. The Song of Susannah 46. The Talisman 45. The Eyes of the Dragon 44. The Wolves of Calla 43. If It Bleeds 42. Four Past Midnight 41. Gwendy's Final Task 40. The Dark Half 39. The Institute 38. Lisey's Story 37. Mr. Mercedes 36. Gerald's Game 35. Fairy Tale 34. Carrie 33. Doctor Sleep 32. Everything's Eventual 31. Revival 30. Cujo 29. The Waste Lands 28. Finders Keepers 27. Wizard and Glass 26. Under the Dome 25. Firestarter 24. Skeleton Crew 23. Dolores Claiborne 22. Hearts in Atlantis 21. Billy Summers 20. Desperation 19. Full Dark, No Stars 18. The Dead Zone 17. Night Shift 16. Just After Sunset 15. The Dark Tower 14. Different Seasons 13. Salem's Lot 12. Duma Key 11. Christine 10. The Drawing of the Three 9. The Long Walk 8. Pet Sematary 7. The Stand 6. Needful Things 5. The Green Mile 4. The Shining 3. Misery 2. 11/22/63 1. It (Sources: Jimmy Mango, Brian Lee Durfee, otherworldsthanthese, The Bookish Drummer, Dave Reads King, One Eye on the Page, Pretty in Papercuts, Matt HNR, NervithReviews, Jo Fisher, GetFramed, Pick Your Pop Culture Poison, FrogLit, The Love of Reading, The Horror Show Channel, thelocolibrarian, TheDylanCorner, Happy Goat Horror, CriminOlly, Katzenkönig, Dom Laurion)

@Creshaw 5 ай бұрын

@@kristofbarta8712 Thank you!

@uglystrawberry 7 ай бұрын

Excellent list .. thank you madam

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Tony_Pesta 4 ай бұрын

Blown away by how much work must have gone into this. And it helps me push my 11/22/63 agenda!

@maizevagastien8399 16 күн бұрын

I don't understand why everyone hates Tommyknockers. Although it is drawn out at times, there's a great story in there. It's one of my favorites

@pyrostooge78 5 ай бұрын

Interesting. Not cool to complain about rankings, but Roadwork at the bottom? I love it. I'd definitely put it in my top 10 though. I remember having a really hard time putting it down because of how engaged I was with it. I had zero desire to read it, and only did so because I wanted to read all his Bachman books. Now, The Long Walk I thought was an absolute snoozefest. I'm not sure why people seem to love it so much. Cool idea, but most Stephen King books have cool ideas. Pet Semetary is hands down the scariest book he's written. That first trip to the burial ground is probably the scariest passages King's ever written - in my opinion. And one last thing - The Body from Different Seasons has the best first paragraph ever written for a King story. It's beautiful, and I've had it memorized for years.

@beccacarrillo 7 ай бұрын

P.S. King is actually my favorite author. My summer project was to re-read The Dark Tower series. I originally read them as they were published and had never read them with one immediately following the other. It is a MUCH better story read as one...at least, in my opinion. Oh...and I've read The Stand at least a dozen times. (The short version 4 times and the long version 8.) I guess you could say it's my favorite book.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Wow, 12 times?! That is so impressive. I rarely reread, but I’m starting to really enjoy returning to old favorites recently.

@richard-mtl 2 ай бұрын

Great list. Sad that Tommyknockers was so far down, I really liked it. I think Tommyknockers and The Stand are my favourites, followed closely by The Long Walk (in The Bachman Books). IT was scary and I never want to read it again. I have yet to read 11/22/63, I guess I should read it now!

@__ZANE__ Ай бұрын

Tommyknockers was so cool! Gard really went out with a bang!

@kaboomzzz Ай бұрын

Tommyknockers is way underrated. I think it gets a lot of hate unnecessarily. It’s a fantastic King book. I don’t know why people seem to always rank it so low. I’ve read it twice, years apart, and enjoyed it both times. It’s definitely better than people give it credit for.

@nelsonwilliams6006 14 күн бұрын

Drawing of the three is mine. Book hit different for me

@gf4453 5 ай бұрын

Four of my favorites made the Top 10: Pet Semetery , which is clever and fantastic; Misery, The Shining, and The Green Mile (you should read it). I didn't like It. Maybe I should give it another go.

@nathantowns2043 3 ай бұрын

While it very well may be controversial, it *shouldn't* be controversial to love both The Shinings. They're both masterpieces... that don't have thaaaat much to do with each other.

@DrawntoBooks 2 ай бұрын

I agree, I think they’re both great, they just can’t be thought of as the same work.

@tinyjr2653 10 күн бұрын

Misery is my all time favorite, one of the only books to scare me to my core

@akagordon 7 ай бұрын

You just did a hell of a lot of sentiment analysis on Stephen King reviews, just for a short KZfaq video? Nice.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Leave it to me to go a little overboard 🙈

@stwenty5758 3 ай бұрын

Personally, It doesn't even make my top 20, and it's one of the very few King books that I never finished. The adult part of the story plods relentlessly, and while the kids section is pretty good, the whole thing needed several more passes with a blue pencil. I think you could lose maybe 25% of that book and only make it better in the process. I can't really argue about the rest of the rankings, though. I don't completely agree, but only It seems outrageously out of place to me. I'd rather read just about anything else he wrote, including Roadwork, Cell, and Rage.

@yondupoppins268 3 ай бұрын

Now the question is: Did you look for a total of 19 lists on purpose? Constant readers of Stephen King will know what I’m talking about. Long days and pleasant nights to you ma’am😁

@DrawntoBooks 2 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh! I wish I could say I did that on purpose but I didn’t even realize 😅 That’s awesome.

@againstalladsgames 3 ай бұрын

Having read a lot of King’s work I’d have to say The Dark Tower series is his best. I’m sorry the movie was so subpar. You can’t take a huge set of novels and make them into a 90 minute movie successfully.

@Drazeroth8 3 ай бұрын

The Stand for sure number 2 if not 1. Regarding his bigger books, there are some dull moments in It, but even for it's incredible size, The Stand keeps your engaged all the way thru. Way easier of a read than It, even if it's bigger. Edit: Also, Randy Flagg > Pennywise

@DrawntoBooks 3 ай бұрын

The first half of The Stand is brilliant. The second half fell apart a little for me, but I think I agree with you about Flagg!

@Drazeroth8 3 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBooks First half of the Stand is better I agree. I would say the same goes for It.

@LordOfElderon 7 ай бұрын

hard to believe wizard and glass is so low. its easily one of my favourite stephen king books. also gosh i hate pet semetary. maybe when it was released it was original but it seemed so cliched. but i know people like it. and im shocked at 11.22.63 being higher than the stand and the shining. The different colour thing when he came back was good, and i liked the world but the amount of random hatred oswald gets, it felt you needed to be alive when jfk was shot to feel that with the main character. but the love story in it was pretty good.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

I think 11.22.63 is so high because it's not a horror novel, so I think people who don't love dark horror really loved this one. I want to read The Dark Tower series! someday. :)

@Criner05 6 ай бұрын

I've wanted to read "The Stand" for a year or so but was turned off by how long the book itself it, as well as how long the chapters are. I can't stop in the middle of a chapter. I prefer chapters be no more than 12 pages.

@DrawntoBooks 6 ай бұрын

Pacing matters so much! The first half of The Stand is awesome though :)

@blindcat91 6 ай бұрын

I just read the Stand and now almost done 11/22/63. Give the Stand a chance. The character development is amazing and there will be a point where you simply can not put it down.

@Progressive_Comfort 2 ай бұрын

With all due respect. As someone who has read The dark Tower series multiple times wind through the keyhole, it's fantastic. Song of Susannah is by far the worst.

@2134yanto 6 ай бұрын

There is absolutely no question re The Shining. The book mops the floor with the film. No contest whatsoever. There are reasons why King hates that Kubrick version.

@manuman1022 7 ай бұрын

Great list, 22/11/63 is my favourite, and the Gunslinger my least favourite

@angusorvid8840 4 ай бұрын

I got into King when I was eleven. I started with 'Salem's Lot when I was eleven, back around 1984. Then I went on to The Shining, Carrie, Night Shift, The Stand, so on and so forth. I remember getting a brand-new hardcover copy of IT for my thirteenth birthday. I was ecstatic. I dived right into it. I thought it was one of his best, easily comparable to his biggest novel at the time, The Stand. But I remember how many readers were disappointed about it and thought Pennywise was a stupid character. Then there were the Bachman Books. I read them all, most in an omnibus edition with the exception of Thinner. The Running Man was my favorite of the bunch.

@testingpro6723 2 ай бұрын

Duma key is criminally undderated

@zaftra 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn't be my list, not even close. Book of the Shining and the film aren't different, they emphasise different aspects. Most of what's in the film, except the ending, is in the book toward the end.

@Mukesh-cy2mg 3 ай бұрын

I love you ❤😂

@JamesJoyce12 7 ай бұрын

the stand as #5 is frankly stoopid

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

Haha, you think it should be higher? Lots of people don’t like it! I kinda agree…the first part is incredible, the back half…meh.

@crosscompiler 7 ай бұрын

The Stand (1989) and its long, painful trudge towards an "ending" is what finally weaned me off Stephen King forever

@GlennMarden 7 ай бұрын

@@crosscompiler That was Desperation for me. Started out great, but the ending was a mess IMO. Stephen King is a real hit or miss author for me, but his misses are usually due to the way he ends the story, especially in his books that are more supernatural in nature.

@otakuofmine 2 ай бұрын

IT is also the only I read. not great, but neat read. mostly for the story, not how it is written. and they should really have edited out that one part, you know which. plus, funny when ur most succesful one is when u were high as a kite.

@codycasanova2579 Ай бұрын

drawing of the three is my least favorite in the series so far 😭

@Mandroid76 4 ай бұрын

But what about underrated novels.......🙃

@medaman15able 7 ай бұрын

Im really surprised The girl who loved Tom Gordon got as high as it did.

@DrawntoBooks 7 ай бұрын

I was too! It seems to have a sort of cult following for some reason.

@SteveHolthof 4 ай бұрын

Hearts in Atlantis and Duma Key ranked ahead of Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Long Walk, and the Dead Zone!?? No. No. No. Nope! You took your info from the WRONG sites and/ or your method to calculate is wrong. Time to start over I think....but nice try! ;)

@mikesweeney651 22 күн бұрын

I hate 11/22/63

@MichaelM-uw3mk 3 ай бұрын

I've read the entire Bill Hodges triology and not once is he referred to as "Billy." Do you know what you're talking about?

@alexanders4911 6 ай бұрын

Wow! You are so cute ❤

@yourfriendthemaggot457 4 ай бұрын

I'm slowly making my way through his bibliography (still about 30 to go) and my tastes generally line up with this list! Excited to get to Duma Key and 11/22/63 (the two top tens I haven't gotten to yet).

@rassipillai1516 24 күн бұрын

Pet Cemetery is not depressing, it's a haunting book about grief, and is one of his very best. It's clear you are not well versed in reviewing books.

@ericcasagrande Ай бұрын

Oh blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! No offence, but enough with the blithering small-talk at the start. You're not alone in this fault. (LOL) Thanks for sharing with us.