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100 Best Thrillers of All Time

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1

The Da Vinci Code

70,503 members

1,311 reviews

½ 3.5

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

2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,361 members

1,752 reviews

4

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

3

by Mary Shelley

42,952 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Gillian Flynn

22,281 members

1,546 reviews

3.9

4 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

5

by Michael Crichton

20,896 members

318 reviews

3.9

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Stephen King

22,086 members

411 reviews

4.1

4 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, Stepn, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Secret History

20,528 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,857 members

616 reviews

4.2

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

9

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

21,410 members

539 reviews

4.2

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,232 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,438 members

303 reviews

3.9

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,860 members

338 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,027 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

3 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

14

18,314 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: chgstrom, gypsysmom, ahef1963

15

by Stephen King

23,312 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Raymond Chandler

10,343 members

285 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,949 members

1,121 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

18

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,650 members

240 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88

19

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,262 members

298 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

20

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,601 members

140 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, Stepn

21

by Octavia E. Butler

8,515 members

355 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Patricia Cornwell

6,373 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Stepn

23

Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson

8,894 members

173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The War of the Worlds

18,509 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

25

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,096 members

345 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Hunt for Red October

11,331 members

117 reviews

4

2 Members: chgstrom, ahef1963

27

by John Grisham

12,232 members

153 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

28

9,535 members

250 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

29

The Witches of Eastwick

3,257 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,249 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

31

by Martin Cruz Smith

3,814 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

32

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

2,619 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

33

2,383 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,500 members

232 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88

35

3,468 members

252 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88

36

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,586 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

37

by Eden Robinson

634 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

38

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

7,097 members

406 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

39

Everything I Never Told You

6,463 members

375 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

40

4,469 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

41

by Thomas Harris

9,943 members

86 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Stepn

42

by Harlan Coben

5,422 members

159 reviews

3.8

Member: Stepn

43

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,600 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Margaret Atwood

11,920 members

259 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

45

10,329 members

583 reviews

3.8

Member: jenniferw88

46

by Dennis Lehane

7,529 members

300 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

47

by Ottessa Moshfegh

2,068 members

111 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jenniferw88

48

5,822 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

49

by Katherine Neville

4,899 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

50

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,198 members

476 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

51

by Kathy Reichs

3,065 members

92 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

52

by Hideo Yokoyama

802 members

36 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jenniferw88

53

Report for Murder

by Val McDermid

381 members

13 reviews

3.1

Member: jenniferw88

54

Devil in a Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley

2,609 members

99 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

55

Dead Letters: A Novel

by Caite Dolan-Leach

499 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

1,875 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

58

by Cormac McCarthy

11,673 members

274 reviews

4.2

59

8,732 members

296 reviews

3.8

60

by James Patterson

8,186 members

220 reviews

½ 3.7

61

5,058 members

386 reviews

½ 3.4

62

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

by Chuck Palahniuk

5,046 members

95 reviews

½ 3.7

63

by Peter Benchley

4,053 members

148 reviews

½ 3.6

64

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

3,980 members

155 reviews

3.9

65

The Couple Next Door

by Shari Lapeña

3,769 members

205 reviews

½ 3.5

66

by Natsuo Kirino

3,318 members

129 reviews

3.9

67

3,063 members

38 reviews

3.8

68

by Dashiell Hammett

3,028 members

89 reviews

3.8

69

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,852 members

44 reviews

4.1

70

by J. G. Ballard

2,527 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

71

by Fiona Barton

2,194 members

174 reviews

½ 3.4

72

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

1,965 members

67 reviews

4

73

by Robert Bloch

1,804 members

59 reviews

3.9

74

1,642 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

75

Y is for Yesterday

1,495 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

76

by Jim Thompson

1,303 members

38 reviews

4

77

by Megan Abbott

1,059 members

92 reviews

½ 3.4

78

Nineteen Seventy Four

989 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

79

Black Water Rising

by Attica Locke

867 members

52 reviews

½ 3.5

80

A Rage in Harlem

by Chester Himes

822 members

30 reviews

3.8

81

by Tess Gerritsen

790 members

31 reviews

½ 3.3

82

by Alberto Moravia

702 members

9 reviews

3.9

83

Generation Loss

by Elizabeth Hand

649 members

35 reviews

3.8

84

by James Sallis

611 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

85

Church of Marvels

by Leslie Parry

572 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

86

The Expendable Man

by Dorothy B. Hughes

506 members

26 reviews

4.1

87

457 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

88

by Jean-Patrick Manchette

448 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

89

The Night of the Hunter

445 members

11 reviews

4

90

He Died with His Eyes Open

by Derek Raymond

426 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

91

by Brian Evenson

417 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

92

At Night We Walk in Circles

by Daniel Alarcón

342 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

93

The Caveman's Valentine

by George Dawes Green

342 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

94

The Other Lady Vanishes

by Amanda Quick

340 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

217 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

97

The Secret History of Las Vegas

153 members

10 reviews

3.8

98

Basic Black with Pearls

by Helen Weinzweig

141 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

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

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