The Greatest Thriller & Suspense Books Since 2000
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2000 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
| 791 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 2012 | American | English | |
| 922 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 | American | English | |
| 1074 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 | American | English | |
| 1388 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | 2008 | American | English | |
| 1390 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | 2014 | Jamaican | English | |
| 1755 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J. K. Rowling | 2005 | British | English | |
| 1989 | Your Face Tomorrow | Javier Marias | 2002 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 2188 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 2005 | American | English | |
| 2189 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | 2005 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 2498 | Room | Emma Donoghue | 2010 | Irish | English | |
| 2703 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | 2015 | American | English | |
| 2741 | The Martian | Andy Weir | 2011 | American | English | |
| 3227 | Millennium Trilogy | Stieg Larsson | 2005 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 3389 | Death Of A Red Heroine | Qiu Xiaolong | 2000 | Chinese | English | |
| 3421 | The Shock Doctrine | Naomi Klein | 2007 | Canadian | English | |
| 3508 | Joe Cinque's Consolation | Helen Garner | 2004 | Australian | English | |
| 3522 | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | 2018 | American | English | |
| 3615 | 11 22 63 | Stephen King | 2011 | American | English | |
| 3838 | De Niro's Game | Rawi Hage | 2006 | Canadian | English | |
| 3842 | An Extraordinary Union | Alyssa Cole | 2017 | American | English | |
| 3875 | We Need To Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3926 | In The Woods | Tana French | 2007 | Irish | English | |
| 4149 | The Devotion Of Suspect X | Keigo Higashino | 2005 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 4290 | Mystic River | Dennis Lehane | 2001 | American | English | |
| 4707 | Six Of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | 2015 | American | English | |
| 4753 | Angels And Demons | Dan Brown | 2000 | American | English | |
| 4754 | Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie | 2017 | British | English | |
| 4932 | The Terror | Dan Simmons | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5028 | The City & the City | China Miéville | 2009 | British | English | |
| 5038 | Storm Front | Jim Butcher | 2000 | American | English | |
| 5281 | Declare | Tim Powers | 2000 | American | English | |
| 5301 | The Swarm | Frank Schatzing | 2004 | German | German | |
| 5416 | The Brodeck Report | Philippe Claudel | 2007 | French | French | |
| 5421 | What The Dead Know | Laura Lippman | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5465 | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | 2008 | Russian | English | |
| 5485 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 5596 | The Sound Of Things Falling | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2011 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 5602 | Jar City | Arnaldur Indriðason | 2000 | Icelandic | Icelandic | |
| 5633 | Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5661 | Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke | 2017 | American | English | |
| 5686 | The Constant Gardener | John le Carré | 2001 | British | English | |
| 5806 | Five Days at Memorial | Sheri Fink | 2013 | American | English | |
| 5969 | The Perfect Nanny | Leïla Slimani | 2016 | French | French | |
| 6080 | The Power Of The Dog | Don Winslow | 2005 | American | English | |
| 6083 | Dissolution | C. J. Sansom | 2003 | British | English | |
| 6084 | My Sister, The Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | 2018 | Nigerian | English | |
| 6137 | The Queen Of The South | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 2002 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 6146 | The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 2005 | American | English | |
| 6156 | The God Of The Woods | Liz Moore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6254 | Six Four | Hideo Yokoyama | 2012 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6307 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | 2009 | American | English | |
| 6376 | Beartown | Fredrik Backman | 2016 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 6439 | The Snowman | Jo Nesbø | 2007 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 6477 | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | 2004 | British | English | |
| 6481 | I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti | 2001 | Italian | Italian | |
| 6583 | Hardball | Sara Paretsky | 2009 | American | English | |
| 6607 | Still Life | Louise Penny | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 6609 | Nos4 A2 | Joe Hill | 2013 | American | English | |
| 6662 | You | Caroline Kepnes | 2014 | American | English | |
| 6663 | Preparation for the Next Life | Atticus Lish | 2014 | American | English | |
| 6681 | Blacktop Wasteland | S. A. Cosby | 2020 | American | English | |
| 6730 | Saturday | Ian McEwan | 2005 | British | English | |
| 6731 | Eat the Document | Dana Spiotta | 2006 | American | English | |
| 6801 | Bird Box | Josh Malerman | 2014 | American | English | |
| 6859 | A Head Full Of Ghosts | Paul Tremblay | 2015 | American | English | |
| 6892 | The Company | Robert Littell | 2002 | American | English | |
| 6907 | Spies | Michael Frayn | 2002 | British | English | |
| 6920 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | 2007 | Pakistani | English | |
| 6986 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
| 7000 | The Gray Man | Mark Greaney | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7008 | Gente Que Se Fue | David Gistau | 2010 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 7022 | The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | British | English | |
| 7050 | The Changeling | Victor LaValle | 2017 | American | English | |
| 7048 | The King Of Torts | John Grisham | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7075 | The Glorious Heresies | Lisa McInerney | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 7127 | Blanche Passes Go | Barbara Neely | 2000 | American | English | |
| 7127 | The Redbreast | Jo Nesbø | 2000 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7137 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny | 2010 | Canadian | English | |
| 7137 | The Plotters | Un-su Kim | 2010 | Korean | Korean | |
| 7141 | Jade City | Fonda Lee | 2017 | Chinese | English | |
| 7149 | Magic In The Wind | Christine Feehan | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7193 | Jasper Jones | Craig Silvey | 2009 | Australian | English | |
| 7203 | The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen | 2001 | American | English | |
| 7580 | The Midnight Hour | Brenda Jackson | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7581 | Feed | Seanan McGuire | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7584 | Verity | Colleen Hoover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7632 | When The Clock Broke | John Ganz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7636 | Angels' Blood | Nalini Singh | 2009 | New Zealander | English | |
| 7697 | The Ruins | Scott Smith | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7740 | The Ice Princess | Camilla Läckberg | 2003 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 7778 | The Cold Moon | Jeffrey Deaver | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7798 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7804 | Havoc, In Its Third Year | Ronan Bennett | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 7858 | Phantom Evil | Heather Graham Pozzessere | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7880 | 13 Hours | Deon Meyer | 2008 | South African | Afrikaans | |
| 7908 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly | 2005 | American | English | |
| 7914 | The Devil and Miss Prym | Paulo Coelho | 2000 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 7909 | Bad Day In Blackrock | Kevin Power | 2008 | Irish | English | |
| 7919 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7919 | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7921 | Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7961 | Tenderwire | Claire Kilroy | 2006 | Irish | English | |
| 8162 | The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | 2006 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 8184 | Blacklands | Belinda Bauer | 2010 | British | English | |
| 8201 | Suikoden Series | Kenzo Kitakata | 2000 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 8239 | Nineteen Seventy Seven | David Peace | 2000 | British | English | |
| 8259 | Trespasses | Louise Kennedy | 2022 | Irish | English | |
| 8267 | The Bodyguard | Katherine Center | 2022 | American | English | |
| 8304 | The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec | Fred Vargas | 2011 | French | French | |
| 8314 | The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale | 2000 | American | English | |
| 8317 | Moon Called | Patricia Briggs | 2006 | Unknown | English | |
| 8325 | Lush Life | Richard Price | 2008 | American | English | |
| 8376 | The Perfect Play | Jaci Burton | 2011 | American | English | |
| 8376 | Belong To Me | Shayla Black | 2011 | American | English | |
| 8386 | The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 8401 | About The Author | John Colapinto | 2001 | American | English | |
| 8429 | Those Across The River | Christopher Buehlman | 2011 | American | English | |
| 8432 | The Gentleman In Black | James Dalton | 2009 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 8441 | Faithful Place | Tana French | 2010 | Irish | English |