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100 Best Thrillers of All Time

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1

The Da Vinci Code

70,373 members

1,308 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963, Stepn, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,310 members

1,749 reviews

4

5 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Mary Shelley

42,771 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Gillian Flynn

22,182 members

1,543 reviews

3.9

4 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

5

by Michael Crichton

20,821 members

317 reviews

3.9

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Stephen King

21,976 members

410 reviews

4.1

4 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, Stepn, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Secret History

20,405 members

558 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,800 members

613 reviews

4.2

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

9

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

21,296 members

538 reviews

4.2

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,166 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,380 members

301 reviews

3.9

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,847 members

337 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

27,943 members

1,042 reviews

4.1

3 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

14

18,190 members

1,246 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963

15

by Stephen King

23,229 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Raymond Chandler

10,310 members

284 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,825 members

1,118 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

18

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,621 members

239 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

19

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,266 members

298 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

20

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,560 members

140 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, Stepn

21

by Octavia E. Butler

8,427 members

354 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Patricia Cornwell

6,364 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Stepn

23

Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson

8,880 members

173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The War of the Worlds

18,462 members

309 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

25

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,091 members

345 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Hunt for Red October

11,297 members

117 reviews

4

2 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963

27

by John Grisham

12,476 members

153 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

28

9,504 members

250 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

29

The Witches of Eastwick

3,251 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,234 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

31

by Marin Cruz Smith

3,806 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

32

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

2,610 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

33

2,380 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,475 members

232 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88

35

3,437 members

251 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88

36

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,583 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

37

by Eden Robinson

633 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

38

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

7,051 members

405 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

39

Everything I Never Told You

6,399 members

373 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

40

4,459 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

41

by Thomas Harris

9,906 members

86 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Stepn

42

by Harlan Coben

5,411 members

159 reviews

3.8

Member: Stepn

43

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,574 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Margaret Atwood

11,883 members

259 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

45

10,266 members

583 reviews

3.8

Member: jenniferw88

46

by Dennis Lehane

7,488 members

300 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

47

by Ottessa Moshfegh

2,047 members

110 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jenniferw88

48

5,811 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

49

by Katherine Neville

4,892 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

50

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,188 members

475 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

51

by Kathy Reichs

3,066 members

92 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

52

by Hideo Yokoyama

796 members

36 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jenniferw88

53

Report for Murder

by Val McDermid

378 members

13 reviews

3.1

Member: jenniferw88

54

Devil in a Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley

2,593 members

99 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

55

Dead Letters: A Novel

by Caite Dolan-Leach

498 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jenniferw88

56

The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; Maddaddam

by Margaret Atwood

105 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: gypsysmom

57

by Graham Greene

1,864 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

58

by Cormac McCarthy

11,622 members

273 reviews

4.2

59

8,703 members

296 reviews

3.8

60

by James Patterson

8,140 members

213 reviews

½ 3.7

61

5,047 members

385 reviews

½ 3.4

62

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

by Chuck Palahniuk

5,035 members

95 reviews

½ 3.7

63

by Peter Benchley

4,034 members

148 reviews

½ 3.6

64

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

3,902 members

152 reviews

3.9

65

The Couple Next Door

by Shari Lapeña

3,734 members

203 reviews

½ 3.5

66

by Natsuo Kirino

3,303 members

128 reviews

3.9

67

3,053 members

38 reviews

3.8

68

by Dashiell Hammett

3,016 members

88 reviews

3.8

69

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,842 members

44 reviews

4.1

70

by J. G. Ballard

2,512 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

71

by Fiona Barton

2,183 members

174 reviews

½ 3.4

72

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

1,958 members

67 reviews

4

73

by Robert Bloch

1,794 members

59 reviews

3.9

74

1,641 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

75

Y is for Yesterday

1,481 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

76

by Jim Thompson

1,302 members

38 reviews

4

77

by Megan Abbott

1,056 members

92 reviews

½ 3.4

78

Nineteen Seventy Four

989 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

79

Black Water Rising

by Attica Locke

862 members

52 reviews

½ 3.5

80

A Rage in Harlem

by Chester Himes

821 members

29 reviews

3.8

81

by Tess Gerritsen

788 members

31 reviews

½ 3.3

82

by Alberto Moravia

701 members

9 reviews

3.9

83

Generation Loss

by Elizabeth Hand

647 members

35 reviews

3.8

84

by James Sallis

610 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

85

Church of Marvels

by Leslie Parry

571 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

86

The Expendable Man

by Dorothy B. Hughes

502 members

26 reviews

4.1

87

454 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

88

by Jean-Patrick Manchette

446 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

89

The Night of the Hunter

440 members

11 reviews

4

90

He Died with His Eyes Open

by Derek Raymond

424 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

91

by Brian Evenson

410 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

92

The Caveman's Valentine

by George Dawes Green

342 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

93

At Night We Walk in Circles

by Daniel Alarcón

340 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

94

The Other Lady Vanishes

by Amanda Quick

329 members

17 reviews

3.8

95

by Barry Gifford

308 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

96

Those Bones Are Not My Child

by Toni Cade Bambara

213 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

97

The Secret History of Las Vegas

152 members

10 reviews

3.8

98

Basic Black with Pearls

by Helen Weinzweig

140 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

99

Soulmates: A Novel

by Jessica Grose

93 members

37 reviews

3

100

The Assumption of Mary

by Kilian John Healy

36 members

5

About This List

Started: gypsysmom
August 2018
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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