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100 All-time Best Thriller Books

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Here’s a list of 100 all-time best thriller books, including psychological, crime, spy, legal, and action thrillers. These are globally recognized for their gripping plots, memorable characters, and suspenseful storytelling:
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Classic & Iconic Thrillers

 
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Lisbeth Salander gets under the skin of her targets like no-one else. Those who underestimate her live to regret it. If they're lucky . . . Mikael Blomkvist - disgraced journalist, womanizer - is everything she ought to hate. But when she is hired b...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Thriller
 
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A man is murdered in the worlds most famous museum. Around his body is a ring of codes, drawn in blood. He died to protect a secret which Robert Langdon must uncover. It will be a race against time to decipher this final message. Can he get there...
The Da Vinci Code
 
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One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
 
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Whether Nick killed his wife, Amy Dunne, is the suspense the novel is built up on. The novel is well received throughout the United States and other English-speaking nations.Gone Girl centers its story about Nick and Amy Dunne's strained marriage rel...
Gone Girl: A Novel : Flynn, Gillian - Books.in
 
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He thought it was his dream job. It turned into his worst nightmare. When Mitch McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. Bendini, Lambert and Locke were a small, well-respected firm, but their ...
The Firm (novel)
 
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His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is raci...
The Bourne Identity (novel)
 
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Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon...
Shutter Island Book - Buy Online in India
 
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1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a te...
And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
 
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will Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of capturing Dr hannibal 'the cannibal' Lecter. Years later, a serial killer nicknamed 'the tooth fairy' Is massacring entire families ...
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter Series)
 
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The serial killer nicknamed 'buffalo Bill' Has been capturing and starving women, then murdering and skinning them. Fbi rookie Clarice Starling is assigned to solicit help from imprisoned psychopath Dr hannibal 'the cannibal' Lecter, whose insight in...
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)

Modern Blockbusters

 
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Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.You’d like to get to know Grace better.But it’s difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apar...
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
 
Debut Crime Thriller - Sunday Times Bestseller
 
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena | Goodreads
 
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
 
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
 
The Reversal (Mickey Haller #3) eBook
 
Before I Go To Sleep: Bestselling Book
 
Verity: A Captivating Thriller Novel
 
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
 
The Night Manager

Spy & Espionage Thrillers

 
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy : Carré, John le.in
 
Eye of the Needle (novel)
 
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy - AbeBooks
 
American Assassin : Flynn, Vince: Amazon.in: Books
 
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes | Goodreads
 
Patriot Games : Clancy, Tom: Amazon.in: Books
 
The Kill Artist : Silva, Daniel: Amazon.in: Books
 
The Day of the Jackal
 
The Cobra (novel)
 
The Tourist: A Novel: 1 (Milo Weaver, 1)

Psychological Thrillers

 
You : Kepnes, Caroline: Amazon.in: Books
 
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
 
The Girl Before : Delaney, JP
 
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
 
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
 
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
 
The Last Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #1) by Liv Constantine
 
Final Girls by Riley Sager
 
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
 
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks

Legal & Crime Thrillers

 
Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1) by Scott Turow
 
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel (Mickey Haller)
 
The Whistler #1 - John Grisham
 
Defending Jacob by William Landay
 
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
 
The Street Lawyer : Grisham, John
 
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1) by John Grisham
 
Buried Prey (Lucas Davenport, #21) by John Sandford
 
The Poet by Michael Connelly

Mystery Thrillers

 
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
 
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
 
I Found You by Lisa Jewell
 
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
 
The Family Upstairs #1 - Lisa Jewell
 
What She Knew (Jim Clemo, #1) by Gilly Macmillan
 
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
 
The Child : Barton, Fiona - Books
 
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
 
The Girl Who Lived by Christopher Greyson

Domestic & Relationship Thrillers

 
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
 
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
 
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
 
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
 
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
 
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
 
Every Last Secret by A.R. Torre
 
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
 
The Housemaid #1 - Freida McFadden
 
The Push by Ashley Audrain

Action & Military Thrillers

 
Without Remorse: A Life Plan for Team Players
 
Lone Survivor Book - Buy Online in India
 
Gray Man Series by Mark Greaney
 
GRAY MAN05 BACK BLAST : Greaney, Mark
 
Transfer Of Power (3) : Flynn, Vince
 
Enemy of the State, Volume 16 (A Mitch Rapp Novel)
 
The Lions of Lucerne - Books
 
Point of Impact : Hunter, Stephen
 
Zero Day : David Baldacci
 
Threat Vector : Clancy, Tom, Greaney, Mark

Historical Thrillers

 
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
 
Fatherland by Robert Harris - Bestseller
 
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
 
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
 
The Eight #1 - Katherine Neville
 
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
 
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
 
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
 
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
 
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Underrated Gems & Hidden Shockers

 
Stillhouse Lake #1 - Rachel Caine
 
They Never Learn eBook by Layne Fargo
 
He Was Murdered: Book One of Murder Trilogy
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The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1) by Karin Slaughter
 
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The One by John Marrs
 
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
 
Ten Little Dead Bodies (Alex Brown #1) eBook
 
A Good Girl'S Guide To Murder : Holly Jackson
 
No Exit by Taylor Adams