Stephen King's 1980s novels ranked, with The Tommyknockers at No. 16

Collider published a ranking of Stephen King’s 16 novels from the 1980s, placing The Tommyknockers at number 16. The piece notes King published 16 books that decade, including titles released under his Richard Bachman pseudonym and one co-written with Peter Straub, and that the list excludes novellas and short stories compiled in collections (so works like The Mist and the novellas later adapted into The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me are not counted).

In the ranked entries covered here, The Tommyknockers is described as long and scattershot, Thinner (No. 15) is said to drag and read better as a novella, Roadwork (No. 14) is a slight Bachman title, Christine (No. 13) is seen as unfocused, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (No. 12) is noted as choppy in its 1982 form, The Running Man (No.

11) is a paced dystopian Bachman novel set in 2025 that received a somewhat faithful but flawed 2025 adaptation, Firestarter (No. 10) is called a compelling read, The Dark Half (No. 9) is praised as a strong, weird story inspired by the outing of Bachman, Cycle of the Werewolf (No.

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Culture, Stephen King, Richard Bachman, The Tommyknockers, Peter Straub, Castle Rock