The 50 Greatest Thrillers 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. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
  3. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (1966)
  4. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  5. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  6. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler (1953)
  7. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  8. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (1955)
  9. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  10. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (1860)
  11. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (1939)
  12. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980)
  13. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
  14. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré (1963)
  15. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926)
  16. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
  17. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992)
  18. The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969)
  19. The Shining - Stephen King (1977)
  20. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (2004)
  21. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (1951)
  22. The Quiet American - Graham Greene (1955)
  23. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris (1988)
  24. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain (1934)
  25. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (1953)
  26. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
  27. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
  28. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (1962)
  29. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (1971)
  30. The Magus - John Fowles (1965)
  31. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré (1974)
  32. The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler (1939)
  33. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
  34. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin (1794)
  35. Beast In View - Margaret Millar (1955)
  36. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin (1967)
  37. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (2002)
  38. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (2012)
  39. Them - Joyce Carol Oates (1969)
  40. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy (1984)
  41. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (1975)
  42. In A Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes (1947)
  43. A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin (1953)
  44. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
  45. Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley (1990)
  46. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett (1934)
  47. The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley (1978)
  48. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957)
  49. Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg (1992)
  50. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard (1990)

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