Coffey on the Mile
- Published
- 1 August 1996
- Pages
- 138
- ISBN-13
- 9780451190574
- Type
- novella
About this book
Coffey on the Mile, the sixth and longest installment at 138 pages, closes out King's serialized Green Mile in August 1996, resolving John Coffey's fate and the guards' reckoning with his innocence.
Key facts about Coffey on the Mile
Coffey on the Mile is a novella by Stephen King. Readers have had it since August 1996. It runs to 138 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Coffey on the Mile. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780451190574 to find the main one.
Coffey on the Mile is book 6 of 6 in The Green Mile series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Two Dead Girls (1996).
Additionally, Stephen King writes The Shining, The Dark Tower and The Talisman, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our horror, epic fantasy and fantasy horror shelves. Meanwhile, Other Worlds Than These is the latest published Stephen King book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About Stephen King
Stephen King is one of the best-selling and most influential American novelists of the modern era, known primarily for horror but ranging freely across suspense, science fiction, and fantasy across a bibliography of more than sixty novels. See every Stephen King book in order.
Its place in The Green Mile
Coffey on the Mile is book 6 in the The Green Mile series. It follows Night Journey. See the full The Green Mile reading order.
Paul Edgecombe, head guard on E Block -- the death-row wing nicknamed 'the Green Mile' for its sickly-green linoleum -- narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls. Coffey turns out to possess a miraculous healing gift, and as Edgecombe and his fellow guards come to know him, the certainty of his guilt begins to crack even as his execution date approaches. Stephen King wrote The Green Mile as a serialized novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451190574