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 NPR's TOP 100 THRILLERS

• 1. The Silence of the Lambsby Thomas Harris

• 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg Larsson

• 3. Kiss the Girls,by James Patterson

• 4. The Bourne Identity,by Robert Ludlum

• 5. In Cold Blood,by Truman Capote

• 6. The Da Vinci Code,by Dan Brown

• 7. The Shining,by Stephen King

• 8. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

• 9. The Hunt tor Red October,by Tom Clancy

• 10. The Hound of the Baskervilles,by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• 11. Dracula,by Bram Stoker

• 12. The Stand,by Stephen King

• 13. The Bone Collector,by Jeffery Deaver

• 14. Jurassic Park,by Michael Crichton

• 15. Angels & Demons,by Dan Brown

• 16. A Time to Kill,by John Grisham

• 17. The Andromeda Strain,by Michael Crichton

• 18. Mystic River,by Dennis Lehane

• 19. The Day of the Jackal,by Frederick Forsyth

• 20. Rebecca,by Daphne du Maurier

• 21. Eye of the Needle,by Ken Follett

• 22. It, by Stephen King

• 23. The Count of Monte Cristo,by Alexandre Dumas

• 24. The Girl Who Played with Fire,by Stieg Larsson

• 25. Jaws,by Peter Benchley

• 26. The Alienist,by Caleb Carr

• 27. Red Dragon,by Thomas Harris

• 28. Presumed Innocent,by Scott Turow

• 29. The Maltese Falcon,by Dashiell Hammett

• 30. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,by Stieg Larsson

• 31. No Country For Old Men,by Cormac McCarthy

• 32. Gone Baby Gone,by Dennis Lehane

• 33.Gorky Park,by Martin Cruz Smith

• 34. Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin

• 35. Subterranean,by James Rollins

• 36. Clear and Present Danger,by Tom Clancy

• 37. Salem's Lot,by Stephen King

• 38. Shutter Island,by Dennis Lehane

• 39. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,by John Le Carre

• 40. The Poet,by Michael Connelly

• • 41. The Boys from Brazil,by Ira Levin

  • 42. Cape Fear,by John MacDonald

  • 43. The Bride Collector, by Ted Dekker

  • 44. Pet Sematary,by Stephen King

  • 45. Dead Zone,by Stephen King

  • 46. The Manchurian Candidate,by Richard Condon

  • 47. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,by John Le Carre

  • 48. The Talented Mr. Ripley,by Patricia Highsmith

  • 49. Tell No One,by Harlan Coben

  • 50. Consent to Kill,by Vince Flynn

  • 51. The 39 Steps,by John Buchan

  • 52. Blowback,by Brad Thor

  • 53. The Children of Men,by P.D. James

  • 54. 61 Hours,by Lee Child

  • 55. Marathon Man,by William Goldman

  • 56. The Woman in White,by Wilkie Collins

  • 57. 206 Bones,by Kathy Reichs

  • 58. Psycho,by Robert Bloch

  • 59. The Killing Floor,by Lee Child

  • 60. Rules of Prey,by John Sandford

  • 61. The Hunger Games,by Suzanne Collins

  • 62. In the Woods,by Tana French

  • 63. Shogun,by James Clavell

  • 64. The Relic,by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

  • 65. Intensity,by Dean Koontz

  • 66. Casino Royale,by Ian Fleming

  • 67. Metzger's Dog,by Thomas Perry

  • 68. Timeline,by Michael Crichton

  • 69. Contact,by Carl Sagan

  • 70. What the Dead Know,by Laura Lippman

  • 71. The Shadow of the Wind,by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  • 72. The Cabinet of Curiosities,by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

  • 73. Charm School,by Nelson DeMille

  • 74. Feed,by Mira Grant

  • 75. Gone Tomorrow,by Lee Child

  • 76. Darkly Dreaming Dexter,by Jeff Lindsay

  • 77. The Secret History,by Donna Tartt

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  • 78. The First Deadly Sin,by Lawrence Sanders

  • 79. Cryptonomicon,by Neal Stephenson

  • 80. The Brotherhood of the Rose,by David Morrell

  • 81. Primal Fear,by William Diehl

  • 82. The Templar Legacy,by Steve Berry

  • 82. The Hard Way,by Lee Child [tie]

  • 84. The Last of the Mohicans,by James Fenimore Cooper

  • 85. Six Days of the Condor,by James Grady

  • 86. Fail-Safe,by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

  • 87. Strangers on a Train,by Patricia Highsmith

  • 88. The Eight,by Katherine Neville

  • 89. The Lost Symbol,by Dan Brown

  • 90. Goldfinger,by Ian Fleming

  • 91. Bangkok 8,by John Burdett

  • 92. The Kill Artist,by Daniel Silva

  • 93. Hardball,by Sara Paretsky

  • 94. The Club Dumas,by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  • 95. The Deep Blue Good-by,by John MacDonald

  • 96. The Monkey's Raincoat,by Robert Crais

  • 96. Berlin Game, by Len Deighton [tie]

  • 98.A Simple Plan,by Scott Smith

  • 99. Child 44,by Tom Rob Smith

  100. Heartsick,by Chelsea Cain