King Library Dark Tower
The eight core novels in reading order, and the works connected to Roland's quest.
Gunslinger Roland Deschain begins his long pursuit of the man in black across a desert wasteland, the first step of his quest toward the Dark Tower.
Roland draws three companions from other worlds and other times through mysterious doors on a beach, forging the allies he'll need for his quest.
Roland's growing band presses on toward the Tower through a poisoned, dying land and the ruined city of Lud, pursued by an increasingly unstable guide.
Roland recounts the tragic story of his youth and first love, a tale of betrayal that shaped the gunslinger he would become.
A story set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, as Roland recounts a formative early adventure and the fairy tale told to him as a boy.
Roland's ka-tet agrees to defend a farming village from child-stealing raiders, while a dangerous rift over an object from another story threatens to divide them.
As Susannah is drawn away pregnant with a monstrous child, the ka-tet splits apart to save her and to protect their author from beyond the story's edges.
Roland's quest reaches its long-awaited climax as the surviving ka-tet make their final approach to the Tower at the heart of all worlds.
Dark Tower Related Works (19)
'Salem's Lot
Jerusalem's Lot and its doomed priest, Father Callahan, belong to the same wider fictional universe as the Dark Tower series.
The Stand
Randall Flagg, the story's shape-shifting antagonist, is a recurring figure across King's connected multiverse, including the Dark Tower series.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer's journeys between our world and the Territories place this story within the same wider multiverse as the Dark Tower series.
IT
The great Turtle that appears in this story belongs to the same wider mythology King draws on across his connected multiverse, including the Dark Tower series.
The Eyes of the Dragon
Set generations before the Dark Tower series in the same multiverse; its antagonist is a name that echoes across King's wider mythology.
The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
Randall Flagg, the story's shape-shifting antagonist, is a recurring figure across King's connected multiverse, including the Dark Tower series; this edition's added epilogue follows him beyond the events of the novel.
Insomnia
Set in Derry, Maine, this story touches the same wider King multiverse that the Dark Tower series draws from.
Rose Madder
Rosie's passage into another world through a painting places this story within the same wider multiverse as the Dark Tower series.
Desperation
The ancient evil unearthed in this story belongs to the same wider King multiverse that the Dark Tower series draws from.
The Regulators
A parallel-world companion to Desperation, reflecting the same multiverse of alternate worlds King's fiction moves between.
Hearts in Atlantis
Its novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats" touches the same wider King multiverse that the Dark Tower series draws from.
Black House
A sequel to The Talisman that continues to draw on the same wider King multiverse as the Dark Tower series.
Everything's Eventual
Its novella "The Little Sisters of Eluria" is set in Roland's world, before the events of The Gunslinger, and Dinky Earnshaw from the title story returns as a Breaker in The Dark Tower.
From a Buick 8
The mysterious Buick at the heart of the story is one of the vehicles used by the low men, the Crimson King's agents from the Dark Tower series.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Its novella "UR" draws directly on the Dark Tower mythology, including the Tower itself and the low men who serve the Crimson King.
Charlie the Choo-Choo
Presented within the Dark Tower series as a book that turns up along Roland's ka-tet's journey; published here as a real, readable edition of that in-story artifact.
Gwendy's Button Box
The button box and the enigmatic Richard Farris hint at the wider forces of King's multiverse - a connection to the Dark Tower that the trilogy's final book makes explicit.
Gwendy's Final Task
The button box is revealed to be bound up with the fate of the Dark Tower itself, with agents of the Crimson King seeking to claim it.
Other Worlds Than These
The third book in Jack Sawyer's story after The Talisman and Black House; King has confirmed its ties to the Dark Tower, and its title echoes a line from the series.