#56 in Thriller
Past Tense
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 16 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“Past Tense” is a tightly timed Reacher thriller with a personal thread: a stop in his father’s home town. Some readers rank it among the best in the series for the way its short timeframe keeps the story moving. Others find the family-history strand predictable, though they are glad to see habits from the first book return. It is the twenty-third Jack Reacher novel.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Past Tense is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. The book was released on 5 November 2018 in the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland by Delacorte Press and Bantam Press. It is written in the third person.
Reading order · Jack Reacher
Full order & progress →- Killing FloorStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - Die Trying
7.57.5 / 10 - Tripwire
7.57.5 / 10 - Running Blind
7.67.6 / 10 - Echo Burning
7.67.6 / 10 - Without Fail
7.77.7 / 10 - Persuader
7.77.7 / 10 - The Enemy
7.87.8 / 10 - One Shot
8.08.0 / 10 - The Hard Way
7.87.8 / 10 - Bad Luck and Trouble
7.97.9 / 10 - Nothing to Lose
7.57.5 / 10 - Gone Tomorrow
7.97.9 / 10 - 61 Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Worth Dying For
7.97.9 / 10 - The Affair
7.97.9 / 10 - A Wanted Man
7.77.7 / 10 - Never Go Back
7.77.7 / 10 - Personal
7.77.7 / 10 - Make Me
7.77.7 / 10 - Night School
7.77.7 / 10 - The Midnight Line
7.77.7 / 10 - Past TenseThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - Blue Moon
7.67.6 / 10 - The Sentinel
7.67.6 / 10 - Better off Dead
7.37.3 / 10 - No Plan B
7.67.6 / 10 - The Secret
7.67.6 / 10 - In Too Deep
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 195 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 8 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 187 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is Past Tense?
It has 416 pages — longer than 51% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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