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The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child consists of 34 books published between 1997 and 2026. The series follows Jack Reacher, a former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps who became a drifter after leaving the military. Reacher travels across the United States, taking on odd jobs and investigating suspicious or dangerous situations, some of which involve personal matters. The novels are largely standalone. The series has generally followed an annual publication schedule, with the exception of 2010, when two books were released. The series includes novels, novellas, and a short story collection.
Publication order
In the order the books were originally released.
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Buy on Amazon1997 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman and drifter, is arrested for murder while passing through Margrave, Georgia. He has no memory of committing…
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Buy on Amazon1998 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when a woman is kidnapped. He is also taken against his will. Now he must work to…
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Buy on Amazon1999 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman, is living in Key West, working odd jobs like digging swimming pools by hand. He is disturbed when a private…
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2000 · Lee Child
Running Blind (published in the UK as The Visitor) is the fourth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Published in 2000 by Bantam Press in…
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Buy on Amazon2001 · Lee Child
A 2001 novel by Lee Child in the Jack Reacher series. Hitching through West Texas, Reacher is picked up by Carmen, who has married into the miserly…
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Buy on Amazon2002 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is hired to expose weaknesses in the Secret Service's protection of the vice president, though his role is theoretical. A female agent…
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Buy on Amazon2003 · Lee Child
Persuader (2003) is a novel by Lee Child in the Jack Reacher series. Jack Reacher is an elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago and…
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Buy on Amazon2004 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is a soldier's son and an elite military cop who becomes a renegade after a case that shakes his beliefs. In 1990, a two-star general is…
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Buy on Amazon2005 · Lee Child
Six shots, five dead, leave one heartland city in a state of terror, and within hours the cops have solved it: a slam-dunk case, except the accused…
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Buy on Amazon2006 · Lee Child
The tenth Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Ex-military cop Jack Reacher, alone in New York City, witnesses a man drive off with a Mercedes containing…
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Buy on Amazon2007 · Lee Child
From a helicopter above the California desert, a man free-falls into the night. In Chicago, a woman discovers an elite team of ex-army investigators…
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2008 · Lee Child
Nothing to Lose is the twelfth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It was published in the UK by Bantam Press on 24 March 2008 and in the…
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Buy on Amazon2009 · Lee Child · 🏆 1 award & honors
New York City at two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown contains Jack Reacher and five other passengers. One of them, Susan Mark, is in…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself involved in a dangerous situation after a tour bus crashes in a snowstorm, placing him in the middle of a deadly…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Lee Child
In the corn county of Nebraska, Jack Reacher finds himself in the middle of deadly trouble. He comes into conflict with the Duncans, a local clan…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an elite military cop, is sent undercover to Carter Crossing, Mississippi, in 1997, to investigate the death of a young woman. A…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, a former military police officer, hitchhikes to Virginia in a car with three strangers. Soon after, he becomes entangled in a…
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Buy on Amazon2013 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher returns to a place from his past, the headquarters of his old military police unit in northeastern Virginia. He travels from snowbound…
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Buy on Amazon2014 · Lee Child
A sniper shoots the president of France from three-quarters of a mile away. The bullet is American, and the shooter is John Kott, an ex-marksman who…
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Buy on Amazon2015 · Lee Child
"Why is this town called Mother's Rest?" Reacher wonders, but no one will tell him. The town is small, hidden in a vast area of wheat fields, with a…
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Buy on Amazon2016 · Lee Child
In 1996, Jack Reacher is still in the army when he is given a medal in the morning and sent to school in the afternoon. That night, he goes off the…
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Buy on Amazon2017 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher notices a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window while walking through a small Wisconsin town. The ring is small, suggesting it…
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Buy on Amazon2018 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is traveling across America when he takes a detour to a small town in New Hampshire, the place where his father was born. He plans to…
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2019 · Lee Child
Blue Moon is the twenty-fourth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It was published on 29 October 2019 in the United States, United…
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Buy on Amazon2020 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee, planning to grab a cup of coffee and move on, but the town has…
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Buy on Amazon2021 · Lee Child
Reacher encounters a major problem on a remote road in Arizona after a car crashes into a single tree. He travels to town to meet the group…
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Buy on Amazon2022 · Lee Child
Gerrardsville, Colorado, is the setting for a tragic event witnessed by two people. One witness claims a woman jumped in front of a bus, believing it…
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Buy on Amazon2023 · Lee Child
In 1992, eight people are found dead across the U.S., their deaths appearing as accidents. A fall from a hospital window draws the attention of the…
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Buy on Amazon2024 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher wakes up in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed with no memory of how he got there. His right arm is severely injured, and his…
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2026 · Lee Child
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a laboratory method used to rapidly amplify specific DNA sequences for detailed study. It was invented in 1983…
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Recommended reading order — Publication order
Author — Lee Child recommends publication order for new readers; the books are designed so you can start almost anywhere.
- Buy on Amazon
1997 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman and drifter, is arrested for murder while passing through Margrave, Georgia. He has no memory of committing…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
1998 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when a woman is kidnapped. He is also taken against his will. Now he must work to…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
1999 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman, is living in Key West, working odd jobs like digging swimming pools by hand. He is disturbed when a private…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2000 · Lee Child
Running Blind (published in the UK as The Visitor) is the fourth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Published in 2000 by Bantam Press in…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2001 · Lee Child
A 2001 novel by Lee Child in the Jack Reacher series. Hitching through West Texas, Reacher is picked up by Carmen, who has married into the miserly…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2002 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is hired to expose weaknesses in the Secret Service's protection of the vice president, though his role is theoretical. A female agent…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2003 · Lee Child
Persuader (2003) is a novel by Lee Child in the Jack Reacher series. Jack Reacher is an elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago and…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2004 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is a soldier's son and an elite military cop who becomes a renegade after a case that shakes his beliefs. In 1990, a two-star general is…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2005 · Lee Child
Six shots, five dead, leave one heartland city in a state of terror, and within hours the cops have solved it: a slam-dunk case, except the accused…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2006 · Lee Child
The tenth Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Ex-military cop Jack Reacher, alone in New York City, witnesses a man drive off with a Mercedes containing…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2007 · Lee Child
From a helicopter above the California desert, a man free-falls into the night. In Chicago, a woman discovers an elite team of ex-army investigators…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2008 · Lee Child
Nothing to Lose is the twelfth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It was published in the UK by Bantam Press on 24 March 2008 and in the…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2009 · Lee Child · 🏆 1 award & honors
New York City at two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown contains Jack Reacher and five other passengers. One of them, Susan Mark, is in…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2010 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself involved in a dangerous situation after a tour bus crashes in a snowstorm, placing him in the middle of a deadly…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2010 · Lee Child
In the corn county of Nebraska, Jack Reacher finds himself in the middle of deadly trouble. He comes into conflict with the Duncans, a local clan…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2011 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, an elite military cop, is sent undercover to Carter Crossing, Mississippi, in 1997, to investigate the death of a young woman. A…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2012 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher, a former military police officer, hitchhikes to Virginia in a car with three strangers. Soon after, he becomes entangled in a…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2013 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher returns to a place from his past, the headquarters of his old military police unit in northeastern Virginia. He travels from snowbound…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2014 · Lee Child
A sniper shoots the president of France from three-quarters of a mile away. The bullet is American, and the shooter is John Kott, an ex-marksman who…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2015 · Lee Child
"Why is this town called Mother's Rest?" Reacher wonders, but no one will tell him. The town is small, hidden in a vast area of wheat fields, with a…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2016 · Lee Child
In 1996, Jack Reacher is still in the army when he is given a medal in the morning and sent to school in the afternoon. That night, he goes off the…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2017 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher notices a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window while walking through a small Wisconsin town. The ring is small, suggesting it…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2018 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher is traveling across America when he takes a detour to a small town in New Hampshire, the place where his father was born. He plans to…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2019 · Lee Child
Blue Moon is the twenty-fourth book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It was published on 29 October 2019 in the United States, United…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2020 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee, planning to grab a cup of coffee and move on, but the town has…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2022 · Lee Child
Gerrardsville, Colorado, is the setting for a tragic event witnessed by two people. One witness claims a woman jumped in front of a bus, believing it…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2021 · Lee Child
Reacher encounters a major problem on a remote road in Arizona after a car crashes into a single tree. He travels to town to meet the group…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2023 · Lee Child
In 1992, eight people are found dead across the U.S., their deaths appearing as accidents. A fall from a hospital window draws the attention of the…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2024 · Lee Child
Jack Reacher wakes up in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed with no memory of how he got there. His right arm is severely injured, and his…
Read more → - Buy on Amazon
2026 · Lee Child
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a laboratory method used to rapidly amplify specific DNA sequences for detailed study. It was invented in 1983…
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Companion & related books
Related titles and editions that sit outside the main numbered order.
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Lee Child's Jack Reacher Books 1-6
2010
For the first time—the first six explosive novels in Lee Child's #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series—now together in one e-book…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Lee Child
A prequel novella featuring a younger Major Reacher, pulled from his unit and sent to Washington to sit in on a sensitive committee where a leak…
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Buy on Amazon2017 · Lee Child
A collection of short stories spanning Jack Reacher's life, from his boyhood and Army years to his wandering days on the road. Each tale drops him…
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The Christmas Scorpion: A Jack Reacher Story
2018
Jack Reacher’s spending the holidays in California. The last thing he expects is a blizzard—or a visit from the world’s deadliest assassin. Don’t…
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Buy on Amazon2024 · Lee Child
This collection gathers short fiction by Lee Child, ranging across crime, suspense, and the unexpected twist. Most entries are standalone tales…
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I read the Jack Reacher books in?
Publication order — Author — Lee Child recommends publication order for new readers; the books are designed so you can start almost anywhere. Both the publication order and the recommended reading order are listed above.
How many books are in the Jack Reacher series?
We list 35 books by Lee Child , published between 1997–2026.
Where can I buy the Jack Reacher books?
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