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Best Thriller Novels of All Time
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Best Thriller Novels of All Time

Page-turners that keep you up all night — the greatest thriller and suspense novels ever written.

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The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling in the most chilling crime thriller ever written.

▲ Steady·Score +16
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The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn

The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn

An agoraphobic woman witnesses a crime through her neighbour's window — utterly gripping.

▲ Steady·Score +13
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Behind Closed Doors – B.A. Paris

Behind Closed Doors – B.A. Paris

The perfect marriage with the darkest secret — a domestic thriller that shocks.

▲ Steady·Score +13
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No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

Anton Chigurh is American literature's most terrifying villain in a relentless pursuit.

▲ Steady·Score +11
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Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

The unreliable narrator masterpiece that reinvented the psychological thriller genre.

▲ Steady·Score +10
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Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty

Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty

Suburban secrets, dark marriages and a murder mystery wrapped in sparkling prose.

▲ Steady·Score +7
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Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again — the perfect gothic psychological thriller.

▲ Steady·Score +7
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander is one of fiction's greatest characters in a gripping Swedish thriller.

▲ Steady·Score +6
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The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Robert Langdon's race through Leonardo's hidden symbols — the most read thriller ever.

▲ Steady·Score +5
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

A commuter who witnesses something from a train window — twisty, propulsive and dark.

▲ Steady·Score +4
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The Firm – John Grisham

The Firm – John Grisham

Grisham's breakthrough legal thriller set the template for a generation of courtroom drama.

▲ Steady·Score +3
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And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

The best-selling mystery novel of all time — ten strangers on an island, each dying in turn.

▲ Steady·Score +1
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