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2025 Winner for Short Stories/Collections

You Like It Darker

Stories

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF 2024
WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR

“Stephen King knows You Like It Darker and obliges with sensational new tales” (USA TODAY): From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King, an extraordinary collection of stories that are “a master class in tension and full of King’s dark humor” (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a bonus story, “The Music Room.”

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2023 Winner for Best Male Narrator

Fairy Tale

King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.

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1997 Winner Best Unabridged Fiction

The Green Mile

Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks.

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2002 Winner Best Unabridged Fiction

The Talisman

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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2009 Winner Best Fiction

Duma Key

A Novel

Duma Key is the terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.

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2014 Winner Best Fiction and Finalist for Solo Narration—Male

Doctor Sleep

A Novel

The unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” (The New York Times).

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2020 Winner Best Thriller/Suspense

The Institute

A Novel

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post).

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2022 Winner Best Mystery

Later

Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

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1999 Finalist Best Audiobook Package Design

Bag Of Bones

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past. "It's a ghost story, a love story, a story about race and power...One more thing: Yes, it's scary. Of course it's scary."— Minneapolis Star Tribune

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2001 Best Unabridged Non-fiction

On Writing

A Memoir Of The Craft

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME

The twentieth-anniversary audio edition includes Owen King reading his essay, “Recording Audiobooks for My Dad, Stephen King,” and a recorded conversation with Joe Hill and Stephen King.

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2010 Finalist Best Short Stories/Collections

Just After Sunset

Stories

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

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2015 Finalist Best Fiction and Solo Narration—Male

Mr. Mercedes

A Novel

In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” (The Washington Post).

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2016 Finalist Best Male Narrator

Finders Keepers

A Novel

“Stephen King’s superb stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery” (The Washington Post)—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.

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2016 Finalist Best Original Work

Drunken Fireworks

Read by beloved Down East storyteller Tim Sample—praised by Stephen King for his “wit and talent and good-heartedness”—Drunken Fireworks makes for explosive audio listening.

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2017 Finalist Best Fiction and Best Male Narrator

End of Watch

A Novel

The fabulously suspenseful and "smashing" (The New York Times Book Review) final novel in the Bill Hodges trilogy!

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2019 Finalist Best Thriller/Suspense

The Outsider

A Novel

Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King.

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2019 Finalist Best Male Narrator

Pet Sematary

A “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic is about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among King’s most iconic and frightening novels.

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2021 Finalist Best Thriller/Suspense

If It Bleeds

Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat

An extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post).

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