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
4227 The Light Of Day Eric Ambler 1962 British English
5935 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
7205 The Pharmacist Ingrid Noll 1994 German German
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7691 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7734 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
8066 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
8647 Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 2025 Unknown English
8720 King Of Ashes S. A. Cosby 2025 Unknown English
9098 Tilt Emma Pattee 2025 Unknown English
9102 Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy 2025 Unknown English
9353 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
10032 Death Takes Me Cristina Rivera Garza 2007 Mexican English
10108 Tokyo Year Zero David Peace 2007 British English
10494 Heartwood Amity Gaige 2025 Unknown English
10624 Fair Play Louise Hegarty 2025 Unknown English
10972 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
11069 Your Steps On The Stairs Antonio Muñoz Molina, Curtis Bauer 2019 Spanish English
11271 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11271 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
12048 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12102 Vantage Point Sara Sligar 2025 Unknown English
12212 Perspective Laurent Binet 2023 Unknown French
12222 The Three Lives Of Cate Kay Kate Fagan 2025 Unknown English
12288 The Librarians Sherry Thomas 2025 American English
12295 The Payback Kashana Cauley 2025 American English
12310 Twist Colum McCann 2025 Irish English
12319 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12408 The House On Buzzards Bay Dwyer Murphy 2025 American English
12427 The Good Liar Denise Mina 2025 Scottish English
12446 Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang 2025 Unknown English
12456 So Far Gone Jess Walter 2025 Unknown English
12458 Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz 2025 British English
12459 This Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead 2025 Unknown English
12461 The Inheritance Trisha Sakhlecha 2025 Unknown English
12462 El Dorado Drive Megan Abbott 2025 Unknown English
12465 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12467 The Note Alafair Burke 2025 American English
12475 Blood In The Water Tiffany D. Jackson 2025 Unknown English
12476 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12485 Secret Lives Of The Dead Tim Lebbon 2025 British English
12487 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12492 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12498 Girl Dinner Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12501 The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne Ron Currie Jr. 2025 American English
12505 Universality Natasha Brown 2025 British English
12509 Spread Me Sarah Gailey 2025 American English
12547 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12555 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12559 The Stalker Paula Bomer 2025 American English
12609 If You Love It, Let It Kill You Hannah Pittard 2025 American English
12629 The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman 2025 British English
12650 The Trouble Up North Travis Mulhauser American English
12709 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12710 The Compound Aisling Rawle 2025 Unknown English
12718 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12744 Last Chance Live! Helena Haywoode Henry 2025 Unknown English
12749 The Naming Of The Birds Paraic O'Donnell 2025 Irish English
12757 All The Other Mothers Hate Me Sarah Harman 2025 Unknown English
12770 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12823 Witchcraft For Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix 2025 Unknown English
12826 King Sorrow Joe Hill 2025 Unknown English
12828 Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker 2025 Unknown English
12860 The Doorman Chris Pavone 2025 American English
12865 Hollow Spaces Victor Suthammanont 2025 Unknown English
12861 The Bleeding Season Greg F. Gifune 2003 American English
12887 The Intruder Freida McFadden 2025 Unknown English
12901 Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall 2025 Unknown English
12990 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
12995 Dead Money Jakob Kerr 2025 Unknown English
13002 O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 2025 Unknown English
13034 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13048 Marguerite By The Lake Mary Dixie Carter 2025 Unknown English
13055 Fog And Fury Rachel Howzell Hall 2025 American English
13058 Detective Aunty Uzma Jalaluddin 2025 Canadian English
13061 Murder Takes A Vacation Laura Lippman 2025 American English
13072 The Dark Maestro Brendan Slocumb 2025 American English
13077 A Gorgeous Excitement Cynthia Weiner 2025 Unknown English
13190 These Memories Do Not Belong To Us Yiming Ma 2025 Unknown English
13194 The Grand Paloma Resort Cleyvis Natera 2025 Unknown English
13138 The Confessions Paul Bradley Carr 2025 Unknown English
13337 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13359 The Seersucker Whipsaw Ross Thomas 1967 American English
13885 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
14375 We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Paula D. Ashe 2022 Unknown English
14730 The Death Of Rex Nhongo C. B. George 2015 Unknown English
14862 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14957 The High Window Raymond Chandler 1942 American English
14983 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14983 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
14983 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
15559 A Song For The Dark Times Ian Rankin 2020 British English
15559 The Last Trial Scott Turow 2020 American English
15559 A Private Cathedral James Lee Burke 2020 American English
15608 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15678 The Whitewashed Tombs Kwei Quartey 2023 Ghanaian English
15897 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15897 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963 British English
15897 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
15897 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
15897 The Man In The Net Patrick Quentin 1956 American English
15897 Suicide Excepted Cyril Hare 1939 British English
16634 Curtain Agatha Christie 1975 British English
17117 The Bird Tribunal Agnes Ravatn 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Smaller And Smaller Circles FH Batacan 2002 Philippine English
17117 The Disaster Tourist Yun Ko-eun 2013 Korean Korean
17117 The Expendable Man Dorothy B. Hughes 1963 American English
17117 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17117 Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar 1970 Canadian English
17117 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17117 The Green Ripper John D. MacDonald 1979 American English
17117 The Glitter Dome Joseph Wambaugh 1981 American English
17117 Dead Street Mickey Spillane 2007 American English
17117 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 The Kills Patrick House 2013 Unknown English
17117 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English