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The Dark Tower Series

This epic series follows the last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, on his quest to reach the Dark Tower, which serves as a key to many realities. The story combines elements of fantasy, horror, and western genres, exploring themes of fate, love, and sacrifice.

The dark tower. Song of Susannah
Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower. Wizard and Glass
The Waste Lands
The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

    • 238 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    The Dark Tower is soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba, due in cinemas August 18, 2017. 'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark Tower, introduces one of his most enigmatic and powerful heroes: Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. Roland is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey toward the mysterious Dark Tower, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. On his quest, Roland begins a friendship with a kid from New York named Jake, encounters an alluring woman and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER... THE DARK TOWER SERIES: THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS 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 WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

    The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger1
    3.7

  2. The Drawing of the Three

    Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower in this second mesmerizing volume in his epic series. Roland of Gilead has mysteriously stepped through a doorway in time that takes him to 1980s America, where he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous Odetta Holmes. A savage struggle has begun in which underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's desperate search for the Dark Tower. Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and icy realism, The Drawing of the Three compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. (back cover)

    The Drawing of the Three2
    4.3

  3. The Waste Lands

    • 608 pages
    • 22 hours of reading

    Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.

    The Waste Lands3
    4.3

  4. The Dark Tower. Wizard and Glass

    Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the fourth volume in his series. Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world, and slipped into the next. It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.

    The Dark Tower. Wizard and Glass4
    4.3

  5. Wolves of the Calla

    The Dark Tower V.

    Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before advancing, however, they must face the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who threaten to destroy the Calla by abducting its young.

    Wolves of the Calla5
    4.2

  6. The dark tower. Song of Susannah

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.

    The dark tower. Song of Susannah6
    4.0

  7. The Dark Tower VII

    • 1072 pages
    • 38 hours of reading

    "I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE. I HEAR ALL MY LOST FRIENDS AND THEIR LOST FATHERS WHISPERING TO ME. THEY WHISPER ON THE TOWER'S VERY BREATH." Roland Deschain of Gilead and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens, surviving against seemingly insurmountable odds. But the final destinies of Roland, Eddie and Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, Father Donald Callahan, and Oy the billy-bumbler are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever nearer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery. Master storyteller Stephen King surpasses all expectations in this stunning conclusion to his epic magnum opus, entwining tales and places from a vast and complex canvas that is at once breathtakingly imaginative and boldly visionary.

    The Dark Tower VII7
    4.5

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  • The Wind through the Keyhole

    It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka-tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.This Russian Doll of a novel, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man,' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.

    The Wind through the Keyhole
    4.1

  • La Tour sombre 1-3

    Le Pistolero, Les Trois Cartes, Terres Perdues

    • 1169 pages
    • 41 hours of reading

    Les retrouvailles du ka-ten de Dix-Neuf auront été de courte durée, car les pistoleros doivent à nouveau se séparer pour accomplir les deux tâches dont dépend le sort de la Tour Sombre : mettre fin à l'ignoble labeur des Briseurs détruisant les Rayons, et sauver l'écrivain Stephen King d'une mort programmée qui les condamnerait inéluctablement. Et ce n'est là qu'un prélude à l'affrontement avec Mordred – monstre hybride enfanté par Mia/Susannah –, le dernier héritier de la lignée d'Eld mais aussi du Roi Cramoisi, lequel n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Pour Roland de Gilead, la Tour est à ce prix... un prix qu'il devra payer de tout son être, pour la survie de tous les mondes.

    La Tour sombre 1-3
    4.0