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35 books based on 310 votes: A Time to Kill by John Grisham, The Firm by Robin Waterfield, The Client by John Grisham, The Pelican Brief by John Grisham,...
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- The Rainmaker (1995) The Rainmaker, Grisham’s sixth novel, is a searing indictment of the American legal system. Grisham said that the protagonist, a novice Memphis lawyer called Rudy Baylor who is fighting injustice in his first case, was perhaps his favourite of his own characters.
- The Firm (1991) Incredibly, for a book that ended up selling seven million copies, Grisham admitted that for six months after finishing The Firm “no publisher wanted to buy it”.
- The Partner (1997) In the tautly plotted thriller The Partner, young attorney Patrick Lanigan, from Biloxi, Mississippi, fakes his own death and runs off to Brazil with $90m (£71m) purloined from his company.
- The Guardians (2019) Even in his sixties, Grisham was proving his storytelling skills with The Guardians, a compelling 21st century tale of wrongful conviction and small-town conspiracy, set in Florida.
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- "A Time for Mercy" (Jake Brigance, #3) "A Time for Mercy," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $9. Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him as the attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy.
- "The Judge's List" (The Whistler #2) "The Judge's List," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $13.80. In "The Whistler," Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate.
- "The Firm" "The Firm," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $7.45. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.
- "The Guardians" "The Guardians," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $9.27. In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night.
- The Firm
- The Partner
- The Last Juror
- The Rainmaker
- The Testament
- A Time to Kill
- The Broker
- Skipping Christmas
- The Confession
- The Whistler
The Firm is John Grisham’s second novel, and that which propelled him to fame with its impressive stay on the New York Times bestseller list. It was adapted into a film in 1993 starring Tom Cruise and Jeanne Tripplehorn. It is the highest grossing film of all Grisham’s movie adaptations. For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer he couldn’t r...
Our pick for the second best John Grisham book is his seventh published standalone novel: The Partner. They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he ha...
Next is another of Grisham’s standalone novels. In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old found himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America was in the grips of turmoil, Cla...
Another standalone novel, The Rainmaker was adapted into a film of the same name in 1997 starring Matt Damon, Mickey Rourke, Claire Danes, and Danny DeVito. This was Grisham’s first courtroom thriller since his debut novel: A Time to Kill. It tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerfu...
The Testament is John Grisham’s ninth standalone novel and was first published in 1999. In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions. A message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transf...
While John Grisham’s debut novel did not immediately receive success, that was quickly rectified as his career progressed. With the success of his second novel A Time to Kill was released again with a larger print run and became a bestseller. It was also adapted into blockbuster hit of the same name in 1996 staring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullo...
The Broker is a standalone novel that dips into the world of politics and international intrigue. In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the...
Skipping Christmas is a departure from John Grisham’s usual drama thrillers, but one that deserves a spot on this list nonetheless. You might better recognize it by the name of its 2004 film adaptation staring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis: Christmas with the Kranks. Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have beco...
While the rights to John Grisham’s 2010 novel have been acquired, no film adaptation has been made yet. This standalone novel follows the story of an innocent man on death row, who can only be saved by a guilty man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He bu...
The Whistler is John Grisham’s first novel in the Whistlerseries. It explores the corruption within the legal system. We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the ...
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- The Partner (1997) – A Mississippi lawyer fakes his death, steals $90 million, and flees to Brazil, only to be found four years later and brought home, but not without secrets and plans of his own.
- The Last Juror (2004) – The best of both Grishams, The Last Juror mixes courtroom drama and small town lawyers with typical Southern living and one man’s maturity into adulthood in the 1970s.
- A Time to Kill (1989) – I originally had A Time to Kill ranked at number one, just because it was the one that started it all and tackles some difficult subject matter, but it has too many flaws to be worthy of the top spot.
- The Rainmaker (1995) – While it once again features the favorite Grisham trope of the idealistic little guy fighting an evil corporation, The Rainmaker eschews the formula by following the exploits of a recent, non-exceptional graduate that struggles to find a job rather than an Ivy League overachiever at a big firm.
Jul 19, 2023 · The best way to read the John Grisham books in order is by grouping his legal stories and non-legal stories together. There are 48 John Grisham novels, and he has also published several novellas and a novella collection too.
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Jan 10, 2024 · 1. A Time to Kill — Jake Brigance #1. $9.80. Buy on Amazon. 03/08/2024 07:30 am GMT. Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Legal. In the book, you follow Carl Lee Hailey, a black man who takes the law into his own hands after his ten-year-old daughter falls victim to a brutal crime committed by two white men.
