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The short answer
Koji Suzuki · 4 books
- How many books?
- There are 4 books in the Ring series, published 1991–2012.
- Is it finished?
- Yes — the series is complete; it ends with S (2012).
- Where to start
- Start with Ring (1991).
About 1,100 pages — roughly 18 hours of reading
Koji Suzuki's Japanese horror sequence, which begins with a cursed videotape that kills its viewers within a week and gradually reframes the curse as something closer to a virus, and then to a system.
Here is the complete Ring reading order — all 4 books by Koji Suzuki, in the order you should read them:
Reading order
- RingA journalist investigating four simultaneous deaths finds a videotape that promises to kill anyone who watches it within seven days.1991288 pages
- SpiralA pathologist performing an autopsy on an old friend uncovers a pattern that behaves less like a curse than an epidemic.1995283 pages
- LoopA gifted teenager hunting a cure for a spreading cancer is led to a decommissioned artificial-life project in the New Mexico desert.1998288 pages
- SIn an age of streaming video and smartphones, an image-processing specialist finds footage of a suicide that changes each time it is played.2012240 pages
Good news: for this series, reading order and publication order are the same — just read straight down the list.
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How many Ring books are there?
There are 4 books in the Ring series by Koji Suzuki, from Ring (1991) to S (2012). Together they run to about 1,100 pages.
Is the Ring series finished?
Yes. Koji Suzuki completed the series with S in 2012; all 4 books are out now.
What is the first Ring book?
Ring (1991) is book one, at 288 pages. A journalist investigating four simultaneous deaths finds a videotape that promises to kill anyone who watches it within seven days.
Should I read the Ring series in publication order?
Yes. For the Ring series, reading order and publication order are the same — Ring (1991) through S (2012).
How long does it take to read all Ring books?
About 1,100 pages across 4 books — roughly 18 hours at a page a minute. The longest is Ring (288 pages); the shortest is S (240 pages).