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Jack Reacher Books in Order

by Lee ChildLiterature & Fiction

30 books so far (book 31 is due October 20, 2026) and 8 novellas. They run from Killing Floor (1997) to Exit Strategy (2025). Rated 4.5 across 333,946 listener reviews.

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  1. Killing Floor

    Book 1 1997 4.5 (33.1k)

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just...

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  2. Die Trying

    Book 2 1998 4.5 (13.9k)

    The bestselling novel featuring the “wonderfully epic hero” (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman being kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight.

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  3. Tripwire

    Book 3 1999 4.6 (18.6k)

    Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times–bestselling series. Reacher’s anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who’s come looking for him.

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  4. Running Blind

    Book 4 2008 4.5 (10.5k)

    The bestselling novel featuring the “wonderfully epic hero” (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Across the country women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal…

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  5. Echo Burning

    Book 5 2001 4.4 (14.8k)

    The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Thumbing across the scorched west Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go, and all the time in the world to get there.

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  6. Without Fail

    Book 6 2002 4.6 (10.2k)

    Jack Reacher takes aim at the White House in the sixth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the…

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  7. Persuader

    Book 7 2003 4.4 (15k)

    Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past.

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  8. The Enemy

    Book 8 2004 4.5 (16.2k)

    New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing....

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  9. One Shot

    Book 9 2005 4.7 (11.7k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Pure, escapist gold . . . Mr. Child’s tough talk and thoughtful plotting make an ingenious combination.”—The New York Times Six shots. Five dead.

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  10. The Hard Way

    Book 10 2006 4.7 (11.4k)

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . .

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  11. Bad Luck and Trouble

    Book 11 1984 4.5 (8.2k)

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES Jack Reacher and Sergeant Frances Neagley become the targets of a deadly conspiracy in this “action-packed thrill ride” (Chicago Sun-Times).

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  12. Nothing to Lose

    Book 12 1998 4.3 (5.9k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”—People Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair.

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  13. Gone Tomorrow

    Book 13 2008 4.5 (7.2k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inspiration for season four of the hit streaming series Reacher! “High-powered, intricately wrought suspense.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times New York City. Two in the morning.

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  14. 61 Hours

    Book 14 2010 4.5 (7.5k)

    . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin...

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  15. Worth Dying For

    Book 15 2010 4.6 (10.1k)

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown “Jack Reacher is the coolest…

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  16. Second Son

    Novella 15.5 2011 4.4 (1.2k)

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  17. The Affair

    Book 16 2011 4.4 (7.8k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hired to go undercover while investigating a murder, Jack Reacher butts heads with the local police and calls on Sergeant Frances Neagley to help untangle a cover-up that some would kill to keep buried.

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  18. Deep Down

    Novella 16.5 2012 4.3 (1.4k)

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  19. A Wanted Man

    Book 17 2012 4.4 (9k)

    A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Four people in a car, hoping to…

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  20. High Heat

    Novella 17.5 2013 4.2 (1.5k)

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  21. Never Go Back

    Book 18 2013 4.5 (10.1k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Never Go Back is a novel of action-charged suspense starring “one of the best thriller characters at work today” (Newsweek).

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  22. Not a Drill

    Novella 18.5 2014 4.1 (1.5k)

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  23. Personal

    Book 19 2014 4.4 (8.7k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “The best one yet.”—Stephen King Someone has tried to kill the French president.

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  24. Small Wars

    Novella 19.5 2015 4.8 (12)

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  25. Make Me

    Book 20 2015 4.3 (11.6k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inspiration for season five of the hit streaming series Reacher! ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Suspense magazine “Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all…

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  26. Night School

    Book 21 2014 4.3 (12.2k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Determined to stop a rogue terrorist threat, Jack Reacher joins forces with Sergeant Frances Neagley—and the two must combine all their wits if they want to complete the mission alive.

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  27. The Midnight Line

    Book 22 2017 4.4 (15k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “A perfect example of Lee Child’s talent . . . This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.”—Huffington Post Reacher takes a stroll…

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  28. The Christmas Scorpion

    Novella 22.5 2018 3.6 (42)

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  29. Past Tense

    Book 23 2018 4.5 (13.5k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from “a superb craftsman of suspense” (Entertainment Weekly).

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  30. The Fourth Man

    Novella 23.5 2019 4.3 (41)

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  31. Cleaning the Gold

    Novella 23.6 2019 by Karin Slaughter 3.9 (1.5k)

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  32. Blue Moon

    Book 24 2019 4.5 (12.7k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett “This is a random universe,” Reacher says.

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  33. The Sentinel

    Book 25 2020 4.5 (10.4k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow…

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  34. Better Off Dead

    Book 26 2021 4.2 (6.9k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants.

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  35. No Plan B

    Book 27 2022 4.3 (7.3k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “No Plan B is not to be missed. A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before.

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  36. The Secret

    Book 28 2023 4.2 (3.6k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992.

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  37. In Too Deep

    Book 29 2024 4.1 (2.5k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there.

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  38. Exit Strategy

    Book 30 2025 3.7 (894)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. The “blockbuster” (Esquire) new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child, featuring…

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  39. Chain Reaction

    Book 31 Out October 20, 2026

    The heart-pounding new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Jack Reacher is hard to find. It's not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way.

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Adapted for screen

  • Reacher TV series · Prime Video · 2022– · 4 seasons

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Jack Reacher is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (15.5 comes after book 15). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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