[ Jack Reacher ]
edited 2026-06-14A complete reading and viewing order for Lee Child's Jack Reacher franchise — all 30 published novels, key novellas and short stories, two Tom Cruise films, and three seasons of the Amazon Prime Video series. Covers both publication order and the in-universe chronological order spanning Reacher's 1974 childhood through his post-Army drifting years.
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01NOVEL
2004The eighth Jack Reacher novel by publication but the first chronologically, published in 2004. Set in January 1990, Army MP major Jack Reach…
387 pp›02NOVEL
2023The twenty-eighth published Jack Reacher novel but second chronologically, published in October 2023, co-authored by Lee Child and Andrew Ch…
304 pp›03NOVEL
2016The twenty-first published Jack Reacher novel but third in the in-universe chronological order, published in 2016. Set in 1996, Major Reache…
400 pp›04NOVEL
2011The sixteenth published Jack Reacher novel but fourth in the in-universe chronological sequence, published in 2011. Set in March 1997 — week…
416 pp›05NOVEL
1997The debut Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child, published in 1997. Former U.S. Army Military Police officer Jack Reacher — newly discharged and d…
360 pp›06NOVEL
1998The second Jack Reacher novel, published in 1998. Reacher is grabbed off a Chicago street and forced into a vehicle along with an FBI agent,…
374 pp›07NOVEL
1999The third Jack Reacher novel, published in 1999. Reacher is found working construction in Key West and digging swimming pools when a private…
343 pp›08NOVEL
2000The fourth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2000 (as The Visitor in the UK). The FBI coerces Reacher into helping profile a serial killer wh…
360 pp›09NOVEL
2001The fifth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2001. Hitchhiking through west Texas in brutal heat, Reacher accepts a ride from Carmen Greer, a…
384 pp›10NOVEL
2002The sixth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2002. A Secret Service agent asks Reacher to attempt to assassinate the Vice President-elect — as…
432 pp›11NOVEL
2003The seventh Jack Reacher novel, published in 2003. Reacher witnesses what appears to be a kidnapping and intervenes — but the incident was a…
480 pp›12NOVEL
2005The ninth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2005. In an Indiana city, a trained sniper kills five people with five shots from a parking garag…
471 pp›13NOVEL
2006The tenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2006. Sitting in a New York coffee shop, Reacher watches a man make a cash drop — and the next mo…
477 pp›14NOVEL
2007The eleventh Jack Reacher novel, published in 2007. Reacher receives a coded message — $1030 deposited to an account he has not touched in y…
384 pp›15NOVEL
2008The twelfth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2008. Reacher walks into the small Colorado town of Despair and is immediately run out by local…
426 pp›16NOVEL
2009The thirteenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2009. On a late-night New York subway, Reacher notices a woman who matches the behavioral ch…
576 pp›17NOVEL
2010The fourteenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2010. A tour bus crashes in a South Dakota blizzard, stranding Reacher in the small town of…
448 pp›18NOVEL
2010The fifteenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2010 as a direct sequel to 61 Hours. Reacher is still stranded in rural Nebraska, now tanglin…
440 pp›19NOVEL
2012The seventeenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2012. Hitchhiking in Nebraska, Reacher gets a ride with two men and a woman who is clearly…
304 pp›20NOVEL
2013The eighteenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2013. Reacher finally makes it to the headquarters of his old Army unit in northern Virginia…
416 pp›21NOVEL
2014The nineteenth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2014. A sniper fires at the French president from extreme range — 1,400 yards — and Reacher…
416 pp›22NOVEL
2015The twentieth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2015. Reacher gets off a train at a tiny Oklahoma town called Mother's Rest — simply because…
402 pp›23NOVEL
2017The twenty-second Jack Reacher novel, published in 2017. Reacher notices a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window — too small to be a m…
400 pp›24NOVEL
2018The twenty-third Jack Reacher novel, published in 2018. Reacher sets out to visit his father's birthplace — a small New Hampshire town — and…
400 pp›25NOVEL
2019The twenty-fourth Jack Reacher novel, published in 2019. On a bus, Reacher spots a man clutching an envelope of cash and looking hunted — an…
447 pp›26NOVEL
2020The twenty-fifth Jack Reacher novel, published in October 2020 and the first co-authored by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child. In a Ten…
351 pp›27NOVEL
2021The twenty-sixth Jack Reacher novel, published in October 2021, co-authored by Lee Child and Andrew Child. In the Arizona desert near the Me…
352 pp›28NOVEL
2022The twenty-seventh Jack Reacher novel, published in October 2022, co-authored by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher watches a woman get pus…
368 pp›29NOVEL
2024The twenty-ninth Jack Reacher novel, published in October 2024, co-authored by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher arrives in a small coasta…
336 pp›30NOVEL
2025The thirtieth Jack Reacher novel, published in November 2025, co-authored by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher is drawn into the aftermath…
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▾screen5 items · 5 unwatched