Lee Child vs James Patterson

Lee Child and James Patterson both write long-running series, and both are listed on GoBookSeries with the books of each series in publication order. The lists below give the longest series for each author by number of books.

How the two compare

The longer run belongs to James Patterson: Alex Cross, 34 books, against Jack Reacher at 31 books for Lee Child. The next longest series for James Patterson are Women's Murder Club (27), Private (21), Middle School (21). Both authors' books are listed in publication order on their author pages, with the year of each title next to it.

Also see

Lee Child reading order · James Patterson reading order · thriller book series

Every figure above is the count shown on the linked author page and can be checked there.