Here is a list of the best John Grisham books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- The Rooster Bar: A Novel (2018)
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2012)
- Camino Island: A Novel (2018)
- The Confession: A Novel (2012)
- The Reckoning: the electrifying new novel from bestseller John Grisham (2019)
- The Firm: A Novel (2009)
- The Partner: A Novel (2012)
- Sycamore Row: A Novel (Jake Brigance) (2014)
- The Litigators: A Novel (2012)
- A Painted House: A Novel (2004)
The Rooster Bar: A Novel (2018)
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs.
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2012)
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson.
Camino Island: A Novel (2018)
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books.
The Confession: A Novel (2012)
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution.
The Reckoning: the electrifying new novel from bestseller John Grisham (2019)
Pete Banning was Clanton’s favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family; a farmer, father, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church.
The Firm: A Novel (2009)
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray–doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail–already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help.
The Partner: A Novel (2012)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down.Now Patrick is coming home.
Sycamore Row: A Novel (Jake Brigance) (2014)
Don’t miss an original essay by John Grisham in the back of the book. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal thriller. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one.
The Litigators: A Novel (2012)
The partners at Finley & Figg often refer to themselves as a “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things. They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, more accurately, stumbles in.
A Painted House: A Novel (2004)
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born
Best John Grisham Books Reviewed & Ranked
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Sooley--A Novel by John Grisham--Conversation Starters
Author(s): dailyBooks
ID: 3408211, Publisher: Daily Books, Year: 2021, Size: 172 Kb, Format: epub
Journeys of Choice: There is Hope in the Midst of an Unplanned Pregnancy
Author(s): Donna Grisham; Abby Johnson; Jeri Hill; Jessi Green
ID: 3589041, Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc., Year: 2021, Size: 949 Kb, Format: epub
When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted
Author(s): Jim McCloskey; Philip Lerman; John Grisham
ID: 2557510, Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Year: 2020, Size: 11 Mb, Format: epub
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