The 50 Greatest Crime Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)

  1. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  2. The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
  3. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
  4. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1860)
  5. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862)
  6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (1966)
  7. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  8. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe (1902)
  9. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
  10. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler (1953)
  11. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1939)
  12. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (1955)
  14. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  15. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
  16. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (1860)
  17. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (1927)
  18. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (1939)
  19. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980)
  20. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
  21. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré (1963)
  22. A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor (1953)
  23. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser (1925)
  24. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
  25. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926)
  26. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992)
  27. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin (1929)
  28. The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969)
  29. Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987)
  30. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton (1948)
  31. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (1951)
  32. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie (1934)
  33. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens (1864)
  34. The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr (1935)
  35. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris (1988)
  36. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868)
  37. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain (1934)
  38. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)
  39. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (1923)
  40. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (1907)
  41. The Human Comedy - Honoré de Balzac (1830)
  42. The Swindler - Francisco de Quevedo (1626)
  43. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
  44. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)
  45. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (1915)
  46. Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
  47. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe (1722)
  48. Sanctuary - William Faulkner (1931)
  49. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler (1940)
  50. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)

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