The eight books in this series follow the last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, on his quest to save the Dark Tower. (An eighth book, the interquel The Wind Through the Keyhole, arrived in 2012.) King would publish six more books in the series over the next quarter-century, each of which brought the eponymous gunslinger, Roland Deschain, closer to his Tower. Written in 1977, The Gunslinger finally landed in stores in 1982. Keep reading to learn more about The Dark Tower and get the definitive series order. As long as you read the Dark Tower books themselves in order, you’ll be golden. Likewise, it’s not necessary to read The Dark Tower before King’s other works. You don’t need to have read every Stephen King book to understand and appreciate The Dark Tower. So how should you approach The Dark Tower? Surprisingly, the answer to that question doesn’t change based on how many King books you’ve already read. Although the eight Dark Tower books aren’t as famous as King’s more well-known works, the foundational myth that drives hero Roland Deschain - that of a mysterious Dark Tower containing all possible universes - acts as a lynchpin, turning the “standalone” novels in King’s catalog into a giant web. Stephen King’s fans, the Constant Readers, widely consider The Dark Tower to be his magnum opus.
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