Time 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time

1.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,303 ratings
2.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) 4.26 avg rating — 327,604 ratings
3.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,852 ratings
4.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,341 ratings
5.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,907 ratings
6.
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 385,163 ratings
7.
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,809 ratings
8.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,714 ratings
9.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,727 ratings
10.
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) 4.20 avg rating — 31,538 ratings
11.
The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 9,310 ratings
12.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.92 avg rating — 273,865 ratings
13.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 110,543 ratings
14.
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) 3.89 avg rating — 37,203 ratings
14.
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,650,613 ratings
16.
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
by: Lee Child
4.08 avg rating — 343,638 ratings
17.
The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 18,713 ratings
18.
The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,851 ratings
19.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,248 ratings
20.
Mystic River
Mystic River 4.17 avg rating — 159,032 ratings
21.
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 86,155 ratings
22.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 137,753 ratings
23.
Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) 4.36 avg rating — 94,554 ratings
24.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,898 ratings
25.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
My Sister, the Serial Killer 3.65 avg rating — 332,509 ratings
26.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 133,019 ratings
26.
The Turn of the Key
The Turn of the Key
by: Ruth Ware
3.91 avg rating — 316,611 ratings
28.
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line 3.81 avg rating — 11,609 ratings
29.
Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You 3.83 avg rating — 598,334 ratings
30.
Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 416,568 ratings
31.
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 190,822 ratings
32.
The Leavenworth Case
The Leavenworth Case 3.50 avg rating — 3,566 ratings
32.
Survivor’s Guilt (Erin McCabe Mysteries #2)
Survivor’s Guilt (Erin McCabe Mysteries #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
34.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,389 ratings
35.
The Patient in Room 18 (Sarah Keate, #1)
The Patient in Room 18 (Sarah Keate, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 162 ratings
35.
When No One Is Watching
When No One Is Watching 3.48 avg rating — 110,067 ratings
37.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon 3.87 avg rating — 113,198 ratings
38.
The Conjure-Man Dies
The Conjure-Man Dies 3.83 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
39.
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 16,398 ratings
40.
The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6) 3.80 avg rating — 3,991 ratings
41.
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Charles Latimer #1)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Charles Latimer #1) 3.92 avg rating — 11,526 ratings
42.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity 4.06 avg rating — 27,756 ratings
43.
If He Hollers Let Him Go
If He Hollers Let Him Go 3.97 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
44.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place 4.12 avg rating — 8,478 ratings
45.
Beat Not The Bones
Beat Not The Bones 3.46 avg rating — 196 ratings
46.
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 92,723 ratings
47.
A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying
by: Ira Levin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,922 ratings
48.
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) 4.19 avg rating — 45,502 ratings
49.
Beast In View
Beast In View 3.72 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
50.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,875 ratings
51.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,082 ratings
52.
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 20,950 ratings
53.
Where Are the Children? (Where Are the Children, #1)
Where Are the Children? (Where Are the Children, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 59,985 ratings
54.
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 8,496 ratings
55.
A Dark-Adapted Eye
A Dark-Adapted Eye 3.93 avg rating — 9,914 ratings
56.
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 578,208 ratings
57.
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 29,362 ratings
58.
Mean Spirit
Mean Spirit 4.04 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
59.
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 252,312 ratings
60.
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 77,857 ratings
61.
Dead Time (Marti MacAlister, #1)
Dead Time (Marti MacAlister, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 188 ratings
62.
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla's Sense of Snow 3.73 avg rating — 51,271 ratings
63.
When Death Comes Stealing (Tamara Hayle, #1)
When Death Comes Stealing (Tamara Hayle, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
64.
Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)
Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 40,496 ratings
65.
Lady Joker, Volume One
Lady Joker, Volume One 3.62 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
66.
Morituri
Morituri 3.36 avg rating — 304 ratings
67.
Out
Out 3.94 avg rating — 45,888 ratings
68.
Inner City Blues (Charlotte Justice, #1)
Inner City Blues (Charlotte Justice, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 197 ratings
69.
A Place of Execution
A Place of Execution 4.14 avg rating — 18,494 ratings
70.
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child 3.52 avg rating — 541 ratings
71.
Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White, #4)
Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White, #4) 4.21 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
72.
Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1) 3.82 avg rating — 6,215 ratings
73.
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
by: Jo Nesbø
3.94 avg rating — 107,422 ratings
74.
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 172,627 ratings
75.
The Emperor of Ocean Park (Elm Harbor, #1)
The Emperor of Ocean Park (Elm Harbor, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 7,183 ratings
76.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,705 ratings
77.
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 119,793 ratings
78.
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 72,738 ratings
79.
The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16) 4.22 avg rating — 250,397 ratings
80.
Snakeskin Shamisen (Mas Arai, #3)
Snakeskin Shamisen (Mas Arai, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 409 ratings
81.
Queenpin
Queenpin 3.75 avg rating — 4,957 ratings
82.
What the Dead Know
What the Dead Know 3.57 avg rating — 24,643 ratings
83.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 3.72 avg rating — 79,305 ratings
84.
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1)
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1) 3.78 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
85.
Faithful Place
Faithful Place really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,805 ratings
86.
The Plotters
The Plotters
by: Kim Un-Su
3.57 avg rating — 7,314 ratings
87.
The Sound of Things Falling
The Sound of Things Falling 3.84 avg rating — 20,631 ratings
88.
The Round House
The Round House 3.98 avg rating — 122,372 ratings
89.
Six Four
Six Four 3.47 avg rating — 10,958 ratings
90.
Ordinary Grace
Ordinary Grace 4.27 avg rating — 184,012 ratings
91.
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies 4.31 avg rating — 1,089,417 ratings
92.
Land of Shadows (Detective Elouise Norton, #1)
Land of Shadows (Detective Elouise Norton, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
93.
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 29,013 ratings
94.
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day #1)
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day #1) 3.61 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
95.
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 32,497 ratings
96.
Miracle Creek
Miracle Creek
by: Angie Kim
3.87 avg rating — 75,779 ratings
97.
The Need
The Need 3.15 avg rating — 16,927 ratings
98.
The Other Americans
The Other Americans 3.90 avg rating — 18,893 ratings
99.
Your House Will Pay
Your House Will Pay
by: Steph Cha
4.08 avg rating — 10,196 ratings
100.
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland 4.07 avg rating — 52,031 ratings
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