Over the years I've amassed quite a few Reacher and Jason Bourne books. I was wondering with Reacher if you have to read the books in order, or are the stories pretty self contained? I do plan on watching the show eventually.
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You can read them out of order. I have and there's not much self references that I recall. I think there's some with a relationship that connects some but outside of that, no must read x to get y type of stuff
Thanks. Does that go for the Bourne books as well? I would imagine Terminal List probably needs to be read in order
The original Bourne books need to be read in order. I didn't know any existed outside of the original 3 that I read, so I can't speak beyond that.
The Terminal List needs to be read in order. Things link together, especially the first 2. I haven't made it past 3 yet, but even that requires some knowledge because of callbacks.
Yeah after the author died there were a lot there were a lot of "Robert Ludlum's Bourne" books that released with different authors.
Thanks!
I haven't read any Bourne or Terminal List. I read about eight Reacher books. So I'm no Reacher expert. That's my disclaimer if the books are more connected than I remembered.
I've read 16. They're not very connected except maybe the first few books. The more the series went on the more self contained each book got