Jake Brigance Books in Order
Jake Brigance by John Grisham contains 4 books, published between 1989 and 2022. The first book is A Time to Kill (1989) and the newest is Sparring Partners (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 4
- Published
- 1989–2022
- Confirmed
- 4 of 4 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,315 in 3 of 4 books
- Reading time
- 22–33 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,315 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 4 titles with a page count on record.
Jake Brigance is a criminal defence lawyer in Mississippi, and John Grisham's legal novels follow the cases: capital murder, capital punishment, and crimes against African American girls among the subjects. A Time to Kill (1989) opens the sequence, followed by Sycamore Row (2013), A Time for Mercy (2020) and Sparring Partners (2022). Four books stand in the series, and nothing has followed since 2022.
How many Jake Brigance books are there?
Jake Brigance has 4 books, released between 1989 and 2022.
Jake Brigance Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 4 Jake Brigance books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1A Time to Kill1989 · 515 pages · confirmed 4/419895154/4
- 2Sycamore Row2013 · confirmed 3/42013–3/4
- 3A Time for Mercy2020 · 480 pages · confirmed 4/420204804/4
- 4Sparring Partners2022 · 320 pages · confirmed 4/420223204/4
Is there a chronological order for Jake Brigance?
No separate chronological order is on record for Jake Brigance, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Jake Brigance books in order?
You should read the Jake Brigance books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Jake Brigance book also stands alone.
Where to start with Jake Brigance
Start with A Time to Kill (1989), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jake Brigance book?
Sparring Partners (2022) is the newest Jake Brigance book released so far.
Is there a new Jake Brigance book coming?
No next Jake Brigance book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Jake Brigance has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Jake Brigance. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction2014Wonfor Sycamore Row
Jake Brigance at a glance
- Paused
- No new Jake Brigance title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Jake Brigance books have appeared about one every 11 years on average.
- Length
- 1,315 pages across the 3 of 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 480 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jake Brigance books, 2 of 4, were published in the 2020s.
- Corroboration
- 3 of the 4 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Jake Brigance books are about
All 4 Jake Brigance books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: lawyers is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Lawyers 2 of 4 books
- Legal stories 2 of 4 books
- Mississippi 2 of 4 books
- African american girls 1 of 4 books
- American literature 1 of 4 books
- Attorney and client 1 of 4 books
- Capital murder 1 of 4 books
- Capital punishment 1 of 4 books
- Child sexual abuse 1 of 4 books
- Crime fiction 1 of 4 books
- Crimes against african american girls 1 of 4 books
- Criminal defense lawyers 1 of 4 books
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