Must-Read Books For STRANGER THINGS Fans

After you watch the final installment of Netflix's Stranger Things, check out these reads that will take you beyond the Upside Down. Explore gripping supernatural thrillers, dark sci-fi adventures, and coming-of-age stories filled with small-town secrets and found-family dynamics.

Books From Stephen King

The Talisman

A Novel

Soon to be a Netflix series!

The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.

 

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The Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.

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It

A Novel

Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s series It: Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It.

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The Institute

A Novel

Now an MGM+ Original Series!

 

The most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

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Polybius

“If you’re a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you.” —Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author

Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.

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Lost Man's Lane

A Novel

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding thriller that will “make you a Scott Carson fan for life” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
 

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The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

A Novel

Written “with intelligence, compassion, and an occasional quiet lyricism” (Krys Lee, The Guardian), this mesmerizing novel is about a North Korean boy whose life is irrevocably changed when he stumbles across a mysterious Western book—a guide to Dungeons & Dragons—from the acclaimed author of the “sublime” (The New York TimesFar North.
 

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We Spread

The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (BustleI’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking” (The GuardianFoe returns with a new work of suspense following an elderly woman trapped in a mysterious facility.
 

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Gutter Mage

J.S. Kelley weaves epic fantasy and hardboiled noir in this fast-paced, twisting tale of magic, mystery, and a whole lot of unruly behavior.
 

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The Impossible Fortress

A Novel

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last One at the Wedding—a sweet coming-of-age story about young love that’s an “endearing, full embrace of the late 1980s” (USA TODAY) and a delightful blend of humor, heart, and the universal experience of growing up.
 

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