James Patterson Books In Order

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Publication Order of Alex Cross Books

Publication Order of Bookshots: Alex Cross Books

Publication Order of Alex Cross Miscellaneous Books

Publication Order of Ali Cross Books

Publication Order of Women's Murder Club Books

with Andrew Gross, Maxine Paetro

Publication Order of Bookshots: Women's Murder Club Books

Publication Order of Amy Cornwall Books

with Brendan DuBois

Publication Order of Black Book Books

with David Ellis

Publication Order of Chef Books

Publication Order of Bookshots: Chef Books

with Jeffrey J. Keyes

Publication Order of Confessions Books

with Maxine Paetro

Publication Order of Crazy House Books

with Gabrielle Charbonnet

Publication Order of Daniel X Books

Publication Order of Daniel X Graphic Novels Books

Publication Order of Detective Harriet Blue Books

with Candice Fox

Publication Order of BookShots: Detective Harriet Blue Books

Publication Order of David Shelley Books

Publication Order of Honeymoon Books

with Howard Roughan

Publication Order of Instinct Books

with Howard Roughan

Publication Order of Invisible Books

with David Ellis

Publication Order of Katt vs. Dogg Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of Maximum Ride Books

Publication Order of Maximum Ride: Hawk Books

with Mindy McGinnis

Publication Order of Maximum Ride Graphic Novels Books

Publication Order of Michael Bennett Books

with James Born, Michael Ledwidge

Publication Order of Bookshots: Michael Bennett Books

Publication Order of Discovery's Murder is Forever Books

Publication Order of NYPD Red Books

with Marshall Karp

Publication Order of Private Books

Publication Order of Bookshots: Private Books

with Jassy Mackenzie, Rees Jones

Publication Order of Rory Yates Books

with Andrew Bourelle

Publication Order of Tom Moon Books

with James Born

Publication Order of Travis McKinley Books

with Peter de Jonge

Publication Order of When the Wind Blows Books

Publication Order of Witch & Wizard Books

Publication Order of Witch & Wizard Graphic Novels Books

Publication Order of Zoo Books

with Michael Ledwidge

Publication Order of Bookshots: Zoo Books

with Michael Ledwidge

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Bookshots: Detective Luc Moncrief Books

with Richard DiLallo

Publication Order of Bookshots: Diamond Trilogy Books

with Elizabeth Hayley

Publication Order of Bookshots: Jon Roscoe Thriller Books

with Robert Gold

Publication Order of Bookshots: Owen Taylor Books

with Brendan DuBois

Publication Order of BookShots: Flames Books

Publication Order of Bookshots: Mitchum Books

with James Born

Publication Order of Bookshots: Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Children's Books

Publication Order of Candies Books

with Andy Elkerton

Publication Order of Dog Diaries Books

with Steven Butler

Publication Order of House of Robots Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of I Funny Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of Little Geniuses Books

with Susan Patterson

Publication Order of Jacky Ha-Ha Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of Max Einstein Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of Middle School Books

Publication Order of Treasure Hunters Books

with Chris Grabenstein

Publication Order of Christopher Farnsworth Short Stories/Novellas

with Christopher Farnsworth

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Publication Order of Jessica Lemmon Short Stories/Novellas

with Lori Foster, Jessica Lemmon

Publication Order of Anthologies

James Patterson Biography:

James Patterson is the best selling American author of many thriller novels. Extremely popular worldwide, James Patterson has sold over 230 million books. He is known for writing captivating stories with a twist that his fans cannot get enough of. From Alex Cross to the Women’s Murder Club series, Patterson has been writing gripping fiction since 1976. He also writes romance stories and non-fiction. Patterson was born March 22, 1947 in Newburgh, New York. He majored in English and graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelor’s Degree and went on to a Master of Arts from Vanderbilt University, graduating both summa cum laude.

He worked in New York in advertising as an ad executive for Burger King. He also came up with the “Toys R Us kid” slogan. In 1997 he married his current wife Lori Solie. They have one son together, named Jack. Patterson lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York and Palm Beach, Florida. James Patterson has written 71 novels in total since beginning his career over thirty years ago. He holds the New York Times record for being a best selling author in hard cover books and also is in the Guinness Book of World Records under the same prestige. It’s hard to believe, but one out of every seventeen hardcover novels sold in the United States is a book authored by James Patterson.

Nineteen of his novels have been consecutive #1 best sellers on the New York Times and he has sold more books than Dan Brown, Stephen King, and John Grisham combined. He is the first author to be on the best selling list for children and adult books at the same time. His series include the Alex Cross novels, the Michael Bennett series, Private, Maximum Ride, Women’s Murder Club, Witch & Wizard, Daniel X, and his Middle School series for young adults.

Patterson has written 21 novels in the popular Alex Cross series. His first novel published in the series was 1993’s Along Came A Spider. It stars Alex Cross, an extremely intelligent African-American forensic psychologist and detective. Cross is a homicide investigator in the Washington, D.C. area. After the death of his father a year after his mother, Cross is sent to live with his grandmother “Nana Mama”. He has a degree from John Hopkins University in psychology, worked as a farm migrant laborer, and practiced psychology until he became jaded with the politics of the medical profession. He chose to join the police force and became addicted to solving cases.

In Along Came A Spider, Alex Cross is called in to investigate a case with two dead prostitutes and a baby. Not shortly after, Cross finds he has to contend with psychotic math teacher Gary Soneji. Soneji has kidnapped two children and Cross is pulled off the homicide to cover the kidnapping. Soneji strikes again and murders an FBI Agent who has been talking about Soneji on television. Cross scours the apartment and discovers Soneji’s obsession with the kidnappings and his dream of becoming famous as a criminal. What follows is an elaborate game as Soneji’s personality is unraveled and the mission to retrieve the children plays out.

Kiss The Girls was published two years later in the second novel in the Alex Cross series. His enemy this time is a serial killer who calls himself Casanova and a mysterious killer who calls himself The Gentleman Caller. Cross is called back home only to be informed that his niece, Naomi Cross, is missing in North Carolina. He travels there and meets up with his partner Sampson only to find out that as many as ten women have been abducted, all of them having received notes from Casanova.

Elsewhere, a woman named Dr. Kate McTiernan also falls into the hands of Casanova. Kiss The Girls is full of twists and turns as the DEA, FBI, and Alex Cross race to find the identity of the two killers. When the attacks change in dynamic, Cross has reason to suspect the two are working together to take down their targets… which include Alex Cross himself. Kiss The Girls was made into a movie in 1997. It starred Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross and Ashley Judd as Dr. Kate McTiernan.

Along Came A Spider was the second movie made in the Alex Cross franchise, premiering in 2001. Morgan Freeman once again took on the role of Alex Cross. This time Cross must pursue a man who kidnapped a senator’s daughter. He teams up with a Secret Service agent, played by Monica Potter, to pick up their trail. Along the way, Alex starts to find that money is not the only thing the kidnapper wants. He also wants Alex’s help in blasting open the scandal of the century.

Recently the franchise was rebooted in the 2012 movie, Alex Cross. Starring Tyler Perry as the James Patterson protagonist, Alex Cross must pursue military-trained assassin turned murderer Picasso(Matthew Fox) as they play an elaborate game of cat and mouse.

The Women’s Murder Club series is comprised of a whopping twelve novels. In this series, a group of professional women work together to solve homicide cases. A reporter, an assistant, a medical examiner, and a homicide detective Women’s Murder Club was adapted into a television series for ABC in 2007. Starring Angie Harmon, the show ran for one season and thirteen episodes until its conclusion in 2008.

The first book in the series, 1st to Die, was made into a film for tv in 2003. Patterson’s “Virgin” hit the small screen in the made-for-tv movie Child of Darkness, Child of Light. In this supernatural movie, a Priest investigates two virgin pregnancies which may end in the birth of a child of good and a child of ultimate evil.

Miracle On The 17th Green aired on tv in 1999 in which a man chooses to enter a professional golf tournament after losing his job and feeling a general lack of connection with his job, his children, and his marriage. Sunday’s At Tiffany’s was made into a movie by Lifetime starring Alyssa Milano, about a girl grown up whose childhood imaginary friend returns to warn her about the man she is now engaged to. James Patterson has donated $850,000 to reading-based programs and launched ReadKiddoRead.com in 2008.

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19 Responses to “James Patterson”

1. Lynn Abbott: 2 weeks ago

   The books I have enjoyed most are the Private series
   can’t wait for another one!
   However I was not enthralled with Death of the Black Widow which couldn’t keep my attention at all! nor was I particularly interested in Three Women Disappear
   However on the plus side I very much enjoyed The Horsewoman The Jailhouse Lawyer 2 Sisters Detective Agency The President is Missing and The Pesidents Daughter to name but a few!

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2. Larry: 1 month ago

   Alex Cross & Michael Bennett Rock Big Time

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3. DAVID NORRIS: 2 months ago

   On the 10th Women’s murder club book and looking forward to reading more

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4. Mary Agnew: 4 months ago

   I think your writing style draws people from 6yrs to 106 yrs to reading. I read an average of220 books a yr.

   Yours are the books that keep me up all night. Write faster I’ll be 72 the end of March!!

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5. Cheryl Hoyt: 6 months ago

   I am a huge fan. I am also a very fast reader. You Mr. Patterson are the only author that has been able to keep up with my reading. I agree with one of your previous fans who said “please no more romance”. You know what your forte is and you are damn good at it.

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   • Margaret M Long: 4 months ago

     I love your alex cross books and womens murder club also your stand alone. I start reading your books and cant stop there riveting and so good. I collect books and yours and some others.

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6. beverley mellor: 6 months ago

   James please stay away from romance ,mills and boon you are not nor do you do 50 shades of grey in a bookshot, this is not your forte
   Please please please stick to your Thrillers

   Also do bookshot anthologies due to lack of space
   also please say last one in series that have finished

   your most avid fan

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7. Melanie: 6 months ago

   There is only 1 word that’s describes you from the books on “the women’s murder club”… GENIUS!! Thank you!!!

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8. carolyn tengo owens: 7 months ago

   I a man avid reader of James Patterson. Every year I vow not to buy another one of his books : this has become an empty vow. As a Black/ Native American ,while reading the Alex Cross novels, I could not believe that Mr. Patterson was Caucasian: Repeatedly , I looked up pictures of him to check out his race, Never have I read someone who enters into the psyche of another race so thoroughly. And many a sleepless night have I passed because I was going to read just one more page and, then turn off the light ! The supreme Master of this
   genre.

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9. jazmine.owens: 8 months ago

   I and my grandma was going through her James Patterson books and she has 32 books and the table is full and when I go to school I’m going to read them and take tests on them because she says that they are amazing and I never heard of them till we went thought the books and now I’m like i want to read every single one over and over again

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   • Graeme: 8 months ago

     That is awesome. They are very good books 🙂

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10. david: 8 months ago

    Am I going blind Looking for True-Crime Thrillers Series “Murder Interrupted ” (2018) Books two stories

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    • Graeme: 8 months ago

      It’s on there as the first book in the Discovery’s Murder is Forever series.

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11. Billy Cole: 8 months ago

    I am a huge fan of your writing. I never even realized I enjoyed reading so much till the first time I read one of your books. I have read over 50 of them and every one of them was as good as the last, a true page turner. Thank you so much for giving the world the honor of reading your amazing stories. I myself have started writing a little after reading some of your books. It has opened up a whole new world for me. Once I start reading one of your books I can’t put it down.
    Keep writing those page turners and I’ll continue to read as many as I can find.

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12. Jean hollingsworth: 9 months ago

    Have been reading your wonderful books for years, have read a couple twice, may you carry on writing for years to come if only to help your brother Andrew, please stay well

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13. Jimmie Babb: 10 months ago

    I just started reading your books and have been completely mesmerized by all your books. I have now got over 90 of your books in my library and plan to get more when i can find them. I especially love the woman’s murder club series and the Alex Cross series and the Private series. You in my opinion are an exceptional author and all your books are totally engrossing that you don’t want to put it down til the end.

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14. Carmen Miskiman: 10 months ago

    LOVE ! LOVE ! your work !
    The Women’s Murder Club – wow !
    Alex Cross series – read them all – want more !
    Thank you for providing me with hours of wonderful,
    relaxing entertainment – beats the TV !
    Carmen

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15. Carl Amason: 1 year ago

    Thank you so much for the Rory Yates books.
    In my humble opinion those are one of the best books you have written.

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16. David Grewe: 5 years ago

    Where does this one fit in
    The Murder House
    Never mind I found it

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