Jake Brigance reading order

A plan for the whole series

4 volumes, 2,043 pages, about 35 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 7 weeks.

• From volume 2 on, the number of ratings falls most before volume 3, “A Time for Mercy” (by 54%). Plan your break after volume 2, before the series plans it for you.
• The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2022. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 27, 2026, 9 days later than in one go.

1. 1
   Stage 120 habout 4 weeksby November 24, 2026

   • 1. A Time to Kill1989 · 522 pages · 10 h
   • 2. Sycamore Row2013 · 545 pages · 10 h
2. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 3, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
3. 2
   Stage 218 habout 3 weeksby December 27, 2026

   • 3. A Time for Mercy2020 · 465 pages · 9 h
   • 4. Sparring Partners: Novellas2022 · ≈ 511 pages · 9 h
4. The end of the series

   December 27, 2026

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≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.

Does the series hold up

Shape of the series: even. Volume scores differ by at most 0.1 points. You get the same level from the first page to the last.

Best volume: A Time to Kill (7.8, 568 ratings). Weakest: Sycamore Row (7.7). From volume 2 on, the biggest drop in the number of ratings is between volume 2 and 3: 54%. The series is not finished; the last volume came out in 2022. The last volume (7.7) scores close to the series average or above it.