2014/09/24

Cross Off What You've Read: Killer Thrillers

Yet another one of NPR's lists, this time killer thrillers! I used to read a lot of crime fiction and thrillers, but not as often anymore, so I'm not expecting great things.
1. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas
2. The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
3. Kiss the Girls - James Patterson
4. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
5. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. The Shining - Stephen King
8. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
9. The Hunt tor Red October - Tom Clancy
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Dracula - Bram Stoker
12. The Stand - Stephen King
13. The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver
14. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
15. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
16. A Time to Kill - John Grisham
17. The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
18. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
19. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
20. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
21. Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
22. It - Stephen King
23. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
24. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
25. Jaws - Peter Benchley
26. The Alienist - Caleb Carr
27. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
28. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
29. The Maltese Falcon - Fashiell Hammett
30. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
31. No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
32. Gone Baby Gone - Dennis Lehane
33. Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
34. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
35. Subterranean - James Rollins
36. Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
37. Salem's Lot - Stephen King
38. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
39. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
40. The Poet - Michael Connelly
41. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
42. Cape Fear - John MacDonald
43. The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker
44. Pet Sematary - Stephen King
45. Dead Zone - Stephen King
46. The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
47. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carre
48. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
49. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
50. Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn
51. The 39 Steps - John Bunchan
52. Blowback - Brad Thor
53. The Children of Men - P. D. James
54. 61 Hours - Lee Child
55. Marathon Man - William Goldman
56. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
57. 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs
58. Psycho - Robert Block
59. The Killing Floor - Lee Child
60. Rules of Prey - John Sandford
61. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
62. In the Woods - Tana French
63. Shogun - James Clavell
64. The Relic - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
65. Intensity - Dean Koontz
66. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
67. Metzger's Dog - Thomas Perry
68. Timeline - Michael Crichton
69. Contact - Carl Sagan
70. What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
71. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
72. The Cabinet of Curiosities - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
73. Charm School - Nelson DeMille
74. Feed - Mira Grant
75. Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
76. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
77. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
78. The First Deadly Sin - Lawrence Sanders
79. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
80. The Brotherhood of the Rose - David Morell
81. Primal Fear - William Diehl
82. The Templar Legacy (tie)
82. The Hard Way - Lee Child (tie)
84. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
85. Six Days o the Condor - James Grady
86. Fail-Safe - Eugene Burdic and Harvey Wheeler
87. Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
88. The Eight - Katherine Neville
89. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
90. Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
91. Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
92. The Kill Artist - Daniel Silva
93. Hardball - Sara Paretsky
94. The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
95. The Deep Blue Good-by - John MacDonald
96. The Monkey's Raincoat (tie)
96. Berlin Game - Len Deighton (tie)
98. A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
99. Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
100. Heartsick - Chelsea Cain


I've read 6 books! So much for "having read a lot of crime fiction". The best thing about these lists though is that you get all kinds of new idea for books to read.

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