Best Mystery and Thriller Books

A list of some of the best mysteries, thrillers and horror novels you will ever read...

• Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
• Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Lost World
• Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye, A Fatal Inversion, King Solomon's Carpet
• Blake Crouch - Dark Matter, Recursion
• Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind
• Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
• Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go
• Cormac McCarthy - The Road
• Dan Brown - Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Digital Fortress
• Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man
• Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas, Whispers, Velocity
• Dennis Lehane - Mystic River, Shutter Island
• Donna Tartt - The Secret History
• Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?, Strong Poison
• Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
• Gillian Flynn - The Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, Dark Places
• Graham Masterton - Taken for Dead
• Harlan Coben - Tell No One
• Hubert Selby Jr. - Requiem for a Dream
• James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential
• James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
• Jeffery Deaver - The Bone Collector
• Jo Nesbø - The Snowman
• John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
• John Grisham - A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief
• John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
• Keigo Higashino - The Devotion of Suspect X
• Lee Child - Killing Floor, One Shot
• Louise Penny - The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead
• Michael Connelly - The Black Echo, The Lincoln Lawyer
• Michael Crichton - The Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Prey
• P. D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, A Taste for Death, Death in Holy Orders
• Patricia Cornwell - Postmortem, The Body Farm
• Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
• Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
• Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent
• Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
• Stephen King - Duma Key, Pet Semetery, It, The Shining, Carrie, Misery, The Stand, Cell
• Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Sue Grafton - A is for Alibi
• Tana French - In the Woods, The Likeness
• Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon
• Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
• Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
• Val McDermid - A Place of Execution
• Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White, The Moonstone