The Greatest Books of All Time on Thriller

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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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3638 The Ringer Edgar Wallace 1925 British English
4228 The Light Of Day Eric Ambler 1962 British English
5939 The Old Fox Deceiv'd Martha Grimes 1982 American English
6974 The Ice House Minette Walters 1992 British English
7086 The Crocodile Bird Ruth Rendell 1993 British English
7206 The Pharmacist Ingrid Noll 1994 German German
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7692 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7736 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
8067 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
8651 Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 2025 Unknown English
8724 King Of Ashes S. A. Cosby 2025 Unknown English
9103 Tilt Emma Pattee 2025 Unknown English
9107 Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy 2025 Unknown English
9358 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
10037 Death Takes Me Cristina Rivera Garza 2007 Mexican English
10114 Tokyo Year Zero David Peace 2007 British English
10500 Heartwood Amity Gaige 2025 Unknown English
10631 Fair Play Louise Hegarty 2025 Unknown English
10979 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
11076 Your Steps On The Stairs Antonio Muñoz Molina, Curtis Bauer 2019 Spanish English
11278 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11278 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
12050 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12103 Vantage Point Sara Sligar 2025 Unknown English
12213 Perspective Laurent Binet 2023 Unknown French
12223 The Three Lives Of Cate Kay Kate Fagan 2025 Unknown English
12289 The Librarians Sherry Thomas 2025 American English
12296 The Payback Kashana Cauley 2025 American English
12312 Twist Colum McCann 2025 Irish English
12321 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12410 The House On Buzzards Bay Dwyer Murphy 2025 American English
12429 The Good Liar Denise Mina 2025 Scottish English
12448 Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang 2025 Unknown English
12458 So Far Gone Jess Walter 2025 Unknown English
12460 Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz 2025 British English
12461 This Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead 2025 Unknown English
12463 The Inheritance Trisha Sakhlecha 2025 Unknown English
12464 El Dorado Drive Megan Abbott 2025 Unknown English
12467 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12469 The Note Alafair Burke 2025 American English
12477 Blood In The Water Tiffany D. Jackson 2025 Unknown English
12478 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12487 Secret Lives Of The Dead Tim Lebbon 2025 British English
12489 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12494 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12500 Girl Dinner Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12503 The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne Ron Currie Jr. 2025 American English
12507 Universality Natasha Brown 2025 British English
12511 Spread Me Sarah Gailey 2025 American English
12549 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12557 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12561 The Stalker Paula Bomer 2025 American English
12611 If You Love It, Let It Kill You Hannah Pittard 2025 American English
12631 The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman 2025 British English
12652 The Trouble Up North Travis Mulhauser American English
12711 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12712 The Compound Aisling Rawle 2025 Unknown English
12720 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12746 Last Chance Live! Helena Haywoode Henry 2025 Unknown English
12751 The Naming Of The Birds Paraic O'Donnell 2025 Irish English
12759 All The Other Mothers Hate Me Sarah Harman 2025 Unknown English
12772 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12825 Witchcraft For Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix 2025 Unknown English
12828 King Sorrow Joe Hill 2025 Unknown English
12830 Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker 2025 Unknown English
12862 The Doorman Chris Pavone 2025 American English
12867 Hollow Spaces Victor Suthammanont 2025 Unknown English
12863 The Bleeding Season Greg F. Gifune 2003 American English
12889 The Intruder Freida McFadden 2025 Unknown English
12903 Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall 2025 Unknown English
12993 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
12998 Dead Money Jakob Kerr 2025 Unknown English
13005 O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 2025 Unknown English
13037 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13051 Marguerite By The Lake Mary Dixie Carter 2025 Unknown English
13058 Fog And Fury Rachel Howzell Hall 2025 American English
13061 Detective Aunty Uzma Jalaluddin 2025 Canadian English
13064 Murder Takes A Vacation Laura Lippman 2025 American English
13075 The Dark Maestro Brendan Slocumb 2025 American English
13080 A Gorgeous Excitement Cynthia Weiner 2025 Unknown English
13193 These Memories Do Not Belong To Us Yiming Ma 2025 Unknown English
13197 The Grand Paloma Resort Cleyvis Natera 2025 Unknown English
13141 The Confessions Paul Bradley Carr 2025 Unknown English
13340 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13362 The Seersucker Whipsaw Ross Thomas 1967 American English
13886 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
14376 We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Paula D. Ashe 2022 Unknown English
14731 The Death Of Rex Nhongo C. B. George 2015 Unknown English
14868 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14959 The High Window Raymond Chandler 1942 American English
14985 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14985 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
14985 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
14985 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
15567 A Song For The Dark Times Ian Rankin 2020 British English
15567 The Last Trial Scott Turow 2020 American English
15567 A Private Cathedral James Lee Burke 2020 American English
15616 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15686 The Whitewashed Tombs Kwei Quartey 2023 Ghanaian English
15916 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15916 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963 British English
15916 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
15916 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
15916 The Man In The Net Patrick Quentin 1956 American English
15916 Suicide Excepted Cyril Hare 1939 British English
16646 Curtain Agatha Christie 1975 British English
16742 Brainfire Campbell Black 1979 Unknown English
17163 The Bird Tribunal Agnes Ravatn 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 Smaller And Smaller Circles FH Batacan 2002 Philippine English
17163 The Disaster Tourist Yun Ko-eun 2013 Korean Korean
17163 The Expendable Man Dorothy B. Hughes 1963 American English
17163 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17163 Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar 1970 Canadian English
17163 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17163 The Green Ripper John D. MacDonald 1979 American English
17163 The Glitter Dome Joseph Wambaugh 1981 American English
17163 Dead Street Mickey Spillane 2007 American English
17163 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian