The 50 Greatest Mystery 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. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
  2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  3. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
  4. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (1966)
  5. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  7. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe (1902)
  8. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler (1953)
  9. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1939)
  10. Bleak House - Charles Dickens (1852)
  11. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  12. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (1955)
  13. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  14. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (1860)
  15. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (1927)
  16. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (1939)
  17. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980)
  18. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
  19. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré (1963)
  20. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (1898)
  21. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926)
  22. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992)
  23. The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969)
  24. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  25. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (2004)
  26. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (1994)
  27. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (1951)
  28. The Quiet American - Graham Greene (1955)
  29. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie (1934)
  30. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens (1864)
  31. The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr (1935)
  32. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris (1988)
  33. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868)
  34. Le Grand Meaulnes - Henri Alain-Fournier (1913)
  35. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño (1998)
  36. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain (1934)
  37. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (1953)
  38. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (1979)
  39. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (1907)
  40. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)
  41. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)
  42. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (1915)
  43. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (1966)
  44. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole (1764)
  45. Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees (1926)
  46. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler (1940)
  47. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
  48. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (1962)
  49. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (1971)
  50. Nadja - André Breton (1928)

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