Back in September 2011, I (and many other geeks) was introduced to NPR’s “Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books” via [SFsignal’s amazing flowchart][flowchart]. I had already experienced about half of the books, but that still left quite a few books to push onto the TBR stack, one of which was Stephen King’s *The Dark Tower* series. He began this in 1978 with a novella(?) titled “The Gunslinger”. Over the next 20 years he expanded that first story to a novel, and published three more volumes of the saga:
1. [The Gunslinger][dt1]
2. [The Drawing of the Three][dt2]
3. [The Waste Lands][dt3]
4. [Wizard and Glass][dt4]
In the Foreword of the 2003 edition of [The Gunslinger][dt1], he mentions that while preparing to write the final 3 volumes of the saga, he took the opportunity to go back and clean up the earlier books. Here is the complete saga, as (re-)written circa 2004:
1. [The Gunslinger][dt1]
2. [The Drawing of the Three][dt2]
3. [The Waste Lands][dt3]
4. [Wizard and Glass][dt4]
5. [Wolves of the Calla][dt5]
6. [Song of Susannah][dt6]
7. [The Dark Tower][dt7]
The links above are for the post-2003 editions available through the [Sacramento Public Library][spl] system.
[flowchart]: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart-for-navigating-nprs-top-100-sff-books/
[dt1]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1660161~S51
[dt2]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1660162~S51
[dt3]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1660163~S51
[dt4]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1661731~S51
[dt5]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1674027~S51
[dt6]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1693419~S51
[dt7]: http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/record=b1780868~S51
[spl]: http://www.saclibrary.org/
