Stephen King: Dark Tower Reading Order

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Extended Dark Tower Reading Order

• Dark Tower Connections
• Top 10 Must Reads before The Dark Tower
• 19 Books With Dark Tower Connections You Didn't Know About
• The Dark Tower Reading Guide
• The Best way to read The Dark Tower
• The Dark Tower: A Suggested Reading Order for the (Extended) Series
• The Dark Tower: An Introductory Guide and Expanded Reading List

Related:

• Every Stephen King book ordered by rank
• Complete list of Stephen King series in order

The list below was obtained from Edward Lorn's video The Dark Tower Extended Reading List

1. Short Story "The Little Sisters Of Eluria" From Collection Everything's Eventual
2. The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger
3. The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing Of The Three
4. The Dark Tower 3: The Waste Lands
5. ‘Salem’s Lot
6. Short Stories "Night Surf" And "One For The Road" From Collection Night Shift
7. The Eyes Of The Dragon
8. The Talisman
9. The Stand
10. The Dark Tower 4: Wizard And Glass
11. It
12. Insomnia
13. Bag Of Bones
14. Rose Madder
15. Desperation
16. The Regulators
17. Hearts In Atlantis
18. From A Buick 8
19. The Tommyknockers
20. Dreamcatcher
21. The Outsider
22. The Dark Tower 4.5: The Wind Through The Keyhole
23. The Dark Tower 5: Wolves Of The Calla
24. The Dark Tower 6: Song Of Susannah
25. Black House
26. Revival
27. The Dark Tower 7: The Dark Tower
28. The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger

The following is reproduced from the book, Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished

Primary Setting:

• The Bear
• Calla Bryn Sturgis
• The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
• The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
• The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands
• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
• The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
• The Little Sisters of Eluria
• The Tale of Gray Dick

Other Stories of Dark Tower Importance:

• Bag of Bones
• Black House
• Desperation
• Everything's Eventual
• Eyes of the Dragon
• From a Buick 8
• Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling
• Insomnia
• It
• Low Men in Yellow Coats
• The Mist
• The Regulators
• The Reploids
• Rose Madder
• 'Salem's Lot
• The Stand
• The Talisman
• Ur