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NPR 100 Killer Thrillers
NPR's reader-voted top 100 thrillers — page-turners across decades and sub-genres.
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The Boys From Brazil
Ira Levin
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow
Goldfinger
Ian Fleming
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Salem's Lot
Stephen King
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
It
Stephen King
Rules of Prey
John Sandford
The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
The 39 Steps
John Buchan
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
Jaws
Peter Benchley
The First Deadly Sin
Lawrence Sanders
Bangkok 8
John Burdett
The Stand
Stephen King
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
The Brotherhood of the Rose
David Morrell
Six Days of the Condor
James Grady
Heartsick
Chelsea Cain
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
Subterranean
James Rollins
The Bride Collector
Ted Dekker
The Children of Men
P.d. James
61 Hours
Lee Child
Psycho
Robert Bloch
Feed
Mira Grant
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
A Time to Kill
John Grisham
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
Tell No One
Harlan Coben
206 Bones
Kathy Reichs
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Shogun
James Clavell
What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman
Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child
The Hard Way
Lee Child
Hardball
Sara Paretsky
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Blowback
Brad Thor
Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
Consent to Kill
Vince Flynn
In the Woods
Tana French
Intensity
Dean Koontz
The Alienist
Caleb Carr
No Country for Old Men
Cormac Mccarthy
Cape Fear
John D. Macdonald
Killing Floor
Lee Child
Angels & Demons
Dan Brown
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John Le Carré
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
The Templar Legacy
Steve Berry
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Kill Artist
Daniel Silva
The Poet
Michael Connelly
Metzger's Dog
Thomas Perry
Kiss the Girls
James Patterson
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carré
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Marathon Man
William Goldman
Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
Timeline
Michael Crichton
The Charm School
Nelson Demille
Contact
Carl Sagan
The Eight
Katherine Neville
The Relic
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Primal Fear
William Diehl
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-reverte
A Simple Plan
Scott Smith
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Clear and Present Danger
Tom Clancy
The Deep Blue Good-by
John D. Macdonald
Berlin Game
Len Deighton
The Shining
Stephen King
Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett
Fail-safe
Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper