Stephen King Summer 🤡 2026 SCHEDULE
Join us for all the book club meetings and watch alongs!
**I apologize that this schedule is going out later than usual. With Jeff’s new movie coming out in late June, our next few weeks are chaotic with celebration and travel (what a great problem to have!). But rest assured that the 6th annual Stephen King Summer will rage on as always.
Welcome to the best part of the Secret Stuff Book Club - STEPHEN KING SUMMER!
I am so excited to read and discuss Holly, The Life of Chuck, and CUJO with you this year.
If this is your first time jumping into Stephen King Summer with me - welcome! We’ll spend the next three months discussing and dissecting the greatest living storyteller and my personal favorite author Stephen King.
Think you’re not interested in Stephen King? I challenge you to join us for just ONE of the selections this summer before you dismiss him entirely. (The Life of Chuck is a novella that’s just over 100 pages, so it might be a good choice.) But make sure you stick around as other Secret Stuff content will proceed as normal this summer, like my reading roundups and Symposiums, etc.1 You can also find more details and FAQs about Stephen King Summer HERE.
A Stephen King Summer repeat participant? THANK YOU for trusting me on this one. I hear year after year from you how this is your favorite part of Secret Stuff and I AGREE.
Later this week I’m going to put out more details about the books we’re reading and the kickoff watchalong happening on June 7, but I wanted you to have these dates for the summer to put in your calendars!
STEPHEN KING SUMMER 2026 SCHEDULE:
SUNDAY, JUNE 7 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET
Stephen King Summer official kickoff!
We’ll spend the first half hour chatting about Stephen King (sharing our favorites, I’ll answer any questions, etc) then we’ll do a watchalong together of Episode 1 of the Mr Mercedes television series.
I chose this because Mr Mercedes is where we first meet Holly Gibney - the title character of our June book pick
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET
Book Club Meeting to discuss HOLLY
**please note that summer hours are a bit earlier than we meet the rest of the year!
SUNDAY, JULY 26 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET
Book Club Meeting to discuss The Life of Chuck followed by a movie watchalong of the 2025 film!
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET
Book Club Meeting to discuss CUJO
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET
Movie watchalong of CUJO
As always, I try not to make changes to our meeting schedule unless I absolutely have to, but life does happen. I’ll let you know as soon as I can if needed.
Stay tuned for more details on each selection.
And if you’re just dying for more Stephen King Summer merch, you can find that HERE (and I’m still adding a few more things this week).
This is gonna be SO FUN.
No Symposium in July! But do join us for our regular meetings in June and August
This is my first Stephen king summer and after reading the stand with slow read, I am so excited! Can’t wait!
Enjoying the slow read of The Stand—first one I ever did. Bought the first two books for SKS. Let’s go!