Where readers stop
Most readers who start it read to book 4.
Open Library readers, to September 2026.
Book series
Jack Reacher books in order
30 books, 1997 to 2025, by Lee Child
In the order they came out.
- 1
Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter.
- 2
Die Trying
When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- 3
Tripwire
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand.
- 4
The Visitor
Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common.
- 5
Echo Burning
Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride.
- 6
Without Fail
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States.
- 7
Persuader
An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.
- 8
The Enemy
An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars.
- 9
One Shot
One heartland city thrown into a state of terror.
- 10
The Hard Way
For the only way to find the truth--and save two innocent lives--is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way....
- 11
Bad Luck and Trouble
From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night….
- 12
Nothing to Lose
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair.
- 13
Gone Tomorrow
She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret.
- 14
61 Hours
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation.
- 15
Worth Dying For
There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska.
- 16
The Affair
For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.
- 17
A Wanted Man
Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself unwittingly involved in a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat.
- 18
Never Go Back
- 19
Personal
Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light.
- 20
Make Me
Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there and there's something about Chang; so he teams up with her and starts to ask around.
- 21
Night School
- 22
The Midnight Line
- 23
Past Tense
- 24
Blue Moon
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.
- 25
The Sentinel
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee.
- 26
Better Off Dead
Reacher never backs down from a problem.
- 27
No Plan B
One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide.
- 28
Secret
These deaths look like accidents and don’t appear to be connected.
- 29
In Too Deep
And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day.
- 30
Reacher 30
A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly.
Also in the series (3)
Box sets, companions and books with no number.
- Deep Down2012
- No Middle Name2017
- Safe Enough2024
When people read it
Read most in 2022, by 150 Open Library readers.
Open Library readers, to September 2026.
The wait between books
A book every year or so, for 28 years.
How long it is
- Pages
- 13,329
- Hours
- 333
- Longest
- Without Fail
13,329 pages in all, about 333 hours at 40 pages an hour.
No page count for 1 of the books.
More by Lee Child
Killer Year2008
Jack Reacher's Rules2012
Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance2012
The Best American Mystery Stories 20102010
Series with the same subjects
By the subjects they share: murder, thriller and suspense.
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From Open Library’s data, September 2026.