100 Mystery Novels Everyone Should Read In Their Lifetime
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Amazon editors debuted a new list of the 100 mysteries and thrillers that everyone should read in their lifetime, based on reader selections and ratings at Goodreads.
From well-known authors like Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe to suspense-genre newcomers, these are the 100 thrillers that will keep you reading deep into the night (in alphabetical order).
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"A Coffin for Dimitrios" by Eric Ambler
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"A Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth George
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"A is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery" by Sue Grafton
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"A Judgement in Stone" by Ruth Rendell
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"A Rage in Harlem" by Chester Himes
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"A Simple Plan" by Scott Smith
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"A Time to Kill" by John Grisham
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"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 1)" by P.D. James
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"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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"Before I Go To Sleep" by S. J. Watson
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"Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem" by Philip Kerr
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"Blindsighted" by Karin Slaughter
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"Cape Fear" by John D. MacDonald
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"Clockers" by Richard Price
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"Dance Hall of the Dead" by Tony Hillerman
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"Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)" by Walter Mosley
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"Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective" by Donald J. Sobol
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"Evil and the Mask" by Fuminori Nakamura
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"Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follett
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"Fer-de-Lance" by Rex Stout
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"From Hell" by Alan Moore
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"From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming
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"Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane" by Dorothy L. Sayers
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"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard
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"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
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"Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, No. 1)" by Martin Cruz Smith
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"I, the Jury" by Mickey Spillane
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"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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"In the Woods" by Tana French
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"Into the Darkest Corner" by Elizabeth Haynes
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"Killing Floor (Jack Reacher)" by Lee Child
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"Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross)" by James Patterson
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"L.A. Confidential" by James Ellroy
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"Marathon Man" by William Goldman
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"Miami Blues" by Charles Willeford
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"Misery" by Stephen King
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"Motherless Brooklyn" by Jonathan Lethem
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"Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery" by Agatha Christie
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"Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane
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"Nick's Trip" by George P. Pelecanos
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"Night Soldiers" by Alan Furst
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"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
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"One for the Money (Stephanie Plum Novels)" by Janet Evanovich
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"Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)" by Patricia Cornwell
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"Presumed Innocent" by Scott Turow
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"Pulp" by Charles Bukowski
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"Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventure)" by Clive Cussler
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"Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier
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"Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris
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"Relic (Pendergast, Book 1)" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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"Shogun" by James Clavell
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"Sister" by Rosamund Lupton
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"Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries, No. 1)" by Louise Penny
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"Storm Front (Dresden Files)" by Jim Butcher
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"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Tell No One" by Harlan Coben
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"The Alienist" by Caleb Carr
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"The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton
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"The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel" by James McBride
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"The Bone Collector: The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel" by Jeffery Deaver
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"The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1" by Robert Ludlum
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"The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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"The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
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"The Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey
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"The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth
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"The Drowning Pool" by Ross Macdonald
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"The Eiger Sanction" by Trevanian
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"The Eight" by Katherine Neville
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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
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"The Gold-Bug and Other Tales" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Hot Rock" by Donald E. Westlake
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"The Hot Spot" by Charles Williams
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"The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy
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"The Kill Artist" by Daniel Silva
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"The Killer Inside Me" by Jim Thompson
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"The Last Good Kiss" by James Crumley
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"The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
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"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
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"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
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"The Neon Rain: A Dave Robicheaux Novel" by James Lee Burke
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"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith
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"The Poet" by Michael Connelly
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"The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain
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"The Quiet American" by Graham Greene
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"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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"The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)" by Carolyn Keene
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"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel" by John le Carré
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"The Strangers in the House" by Georges Simenon
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"The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel" by Tess Gerritsen
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"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith
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"The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys No. 1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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"The Trial" by Franz Kafka
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"The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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"The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins
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"True Confessions" by John Gregory Dunne
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"What the Dead Know" by Laura Lippman
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"Where Are the Children?" by Mary Higgins Clark
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"Wife of the Gods" by Kwei Quartey
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"Winter's Bone" by Daniel Woodrell
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