Top 100 Mystery & Thriller Books That Keep Readers Hooked
✅ Classic Mysteries
- “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
- “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett
- “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler
- “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
- “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie
- “The Secret Adversary” by Agatha Christie
- “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins
- “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn
✅ Contemporary Thrillers
- “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson
- “Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty
- “The Silent Patient” by Alex Michaelides
- “The Couple Next Door” by Shari Lapena
- “Before I Go to Sleep” by S.J. Watson
- “Sharp Objects” by Gillian Flynn
- “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
- “Behind Closed Doors” by B.A. Paris
- “The Reversal” by Michael Connelly
- “The Chain” by Adrian McKinty
✅ Psychological Thrillers
- “The Other Woman” by Sandie Jones
- “You” by Caroline Kepnes
- “Fates and Furies” by Lauren Groff
- “The Wife Between Us” by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
- “Final Girls” by Riley Sager
- “An Anonymous Girl” by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
- “The Girl in the Window” by A.J. Finn
- “The Family Upstairs” by Lisa Jewell
- “Verity” by Colleen Hoover
- “The Last Mrs. Parrish” by Liv Constantine
✅ Classic Detective Novels
- “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett
- “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith
- “In the Woods” by Tana French
- “The Black Echo” by Michael Connelly
- “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbø
- “The Postman Always Rings Twice” by James M. Cain
- “The Red House Mystery” by A.A. Milne
- “The ABC Murders” by Agatha Christie
- “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco
✅ Legal and Political Thrillers
- “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham
- “The Firm” by John Grisham
- “The Pelican Brief” by John Grisham
- “The Silent Corner” by Dean Koontz
- “I Am Watching You” by Teresa Driscoll
- “The Expats” by Chris Pavone
- “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson
- “The Likeness” by Tana French
- “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” by John le Carré
- “The 39 Clues” by various authors
✅ Cozy Mysteries
- “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith
- “Still Life” by Louise Penny
- “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith
- “Murder at the Vicarage” by Agatha Christie
- “A Fatal Grace” by Louise Penny
- “The Tea Shop Mysteries” by Laura Childs
- “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards” by Lilian Jackson Braun
- “The Bakery Sisters” by J. L. Long
- “The Witch’s Tree” by M.C. Beaton
- “The Devil’s in the Details” by K. J. Charles
✅ Notable International Thrillers
- “The Girl with All the Gifts” by M.R. Carey
- “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami
- “Out” by Natsuo Kirino
- “The Secret in Their Eyes” by Eduardo Sacheri
- “Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson
- “The Lizard Cage” by Karen Connelly
- “The Whispering Muse” by José Carlos Somoza
- “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery
- “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson
✅ Science Fiction Thrillers
- “Neuromancer” by William Gibson
- “The Girl with the Wind” by Naomi Novik
- “Altered Carbon” by Richard K. Morgan
- “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- “The Martian” by Andy Weir
- “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch
- “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
- “The Power” by Naomi Alderman
- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
- “11/22/63” by Stephen King
✅ Modern Classics
- “Gone Baby Gone” by Dennis Lehane
- “In the Woods” by Tana French
- “The Killing” by David Hewson
- “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold
- “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
- “Before the Fall” by Noah Hawley
- “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
- “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
✅ Diverse Perspectives
- “The Good Daughter” by Karin Slaughter
- “The Immortalists” by Chloe Benjamin
- “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman
- “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
- “Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
- “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
- “Anatomy of a Murder” by Robert Traver
- “The Last House on Needless Street” by Catriona Ward
- “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score
- “My Lovely Wife” by Samantha Downing
Takeaway: Whether you’re into classic whodunits, psychological thrillers, or global suspense tales, this curated list covers all corners of the genre. There’s something here to intrigue every mystery-loving mind.
