Watchers: This 1987 book was the biggest success in Dean’s writing career he even confessed in an interview that it was a book he really enjoyed writing. Here are two of the best Dean Koontz books as reviewed by his fans and credible book review sites Odd Thomas is the most recent movie adaptation released in 2013, unraveling the plot from his 2003 book. Besides the Hollywood big screens, Dean Koontz brilliant works have also birthed concepts for video games like the 2012 video game ’77 Shadow St.’ named accurately after the book.

2004 was the highlight with the release of Frankenstein the movie adapted from his four series books.

The list continues with a 2000 movie release from his book Sole Survivor and the novella Black River in the year after, from his book under the same name.

From 1988 through to 2000, 12 movies made it to the big screen borrowing plot concepts from his books Watchers (Watches I, Watchers II and Watchers Reborn), The Face of Fear (movie and play), Whispers, The Face of Fear, The Servants of Twilight, Hideaway, Intensity, Mr Murder and Phantoms. Its box-office success gave Dean instant exposure to Hollywood moviemakers, and two years later a second movie came from his book ‘The Intruder’. The first book adaptation for the big screen was the 1977 novel, Demon Seed. One of his novels also managed to provide the lead storyline for a popular video game. Nonetheless, the biggest achievement in Dean’s career has to be the privilege of scooping top positions on the New York Best Seller list as well as big screen adaptation of several of his books. In 2013, Koontz received memorable mentions for two of his books a Young Adult nominee for the High School Book Award (Iowa) for the book Only the Night Knows and the top pick in the RT Book Review of 2013 for the book Deadly Odd.Ģ015 was a golden year for Koontz as well having won the Goodreads Choice Awards, in the Horror category, for his book Saint Odd. 2007 saw his book ‘Brotherly Odd’ score Editor’s Choice in the Listen Up awards. His 1986 book ‘Strangers’ became an instant hit and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1987. With his prolific nature and ability to captivate the reader from beginning to end, it’s no surprise that Dean was bound to scoop several accolades in his career. There were also Odd Thomas Webisodes(Odd Passenger 1-4) which would be read after Brother Odd and before Odd Hours. These three are prequels to the very first published novel Odd Thomas, and chronogically would be read before that. The Odd Thomas series has the graphic novels In Odd We Trust, Odd is On Our Side and House of Odd. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF DEAN KOONTZ BOOKS:

Red Rain by Dean Koontz