A Time to Kill (1989)
In this searing courtroom drama, Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town, Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men.
The Firm (1991)
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.
The Pelican Brief (1992)
America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief . . . To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite.
The Client (1993)
Mark Sway, an eleven-year-old boy, witnessed a lawyer, Romey, shoot himself to death. Just before the suicide, he told Mark that his client had killed a senator and buried him in the lawyer's garage.
The Chamber (1994)
In the corridors of Chicago’s top law firm, twenty-six-year old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer, and an impossible case.
The Rainmaker (1995)
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens. There he meets the Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny son is dying of leukemia and their insurance has refused to pay for his medical treatments. Rudy finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America—and exposing a complex, multibillion dollar insurance scheme.
The Partner (1996)
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life in a small town Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen.
The Runaway Jury (1997)
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he’s being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered.
The Street Lawyer (1998)
Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake& Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm with eight hundred lawyers. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, but his assailant did not. Who was this man?
The Testament (1999)
Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one’s surprise -- especially Troy’s -- are circling like vultures. Nate O’Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who’s lived too hard, too fast, for too long
The Brethren (2000)
Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a “camp” home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - including three former judges who call themselves the Brethren. They meet each day in the law library, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice.
A Painted House (2001)
Inspired by Grisham’s own childhood.
The narrator, Luke Chandler, is a farm boy who lives in the cotton fields of Arkansas with his parents and grandparents in a house that’s never been painted. For six weeks, they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue and, sometimes, each other.
Skipping Christmas (2001)
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether.
The Summons (2002)
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forth-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family’s black sheep.

The King of Torts (2003)
The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litagators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.

Bleachers (2003)
High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
The Last Juror (2004)
Longhaired 23-year-old college dropout Willie Traynor, a stand-out in the small town of Canton, purchased a bankrupt Mississippi newspaper, The Ford County Times, in the 1970s. As editor and publisher, Willie's eyes are opened to many issues, including corrupt politics, the impact of segregation, the role of religion in a small town and the war in Vietnam. His scoop of a lifetime comes, however, with the brutal rape and murder of a young widow. Danny Padgitt, a member of a secluded family of drug runners and bootleggers notorious for buying the law, receives a life sentence for the crime, but he's released only nine years later. Shortly thereafter, jury members begin to die."
The Broker (2006)
Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder.
The Innocent Man (2006)
The Innocent Man chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, how his case was (mis)handled and how an innocent man was sent to death row. Grisham's first work of nonfiction is shocking, disturbing, and enthralling--a must read for fiction and nonfiction fans.

 

 
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