290 books
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966 voters
Popular Mystery Books
Popular Mystery Books
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 4482 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,082,228 ratings — published 2003
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 3888 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.17 — 175,303 ratings — published 1939
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 3380 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,200 ratings — published 2006
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 3175 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.75 — 928,373 ratings — published 2000
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 2826 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,508 ratings — published 1934
One For The Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2710 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.00 — 231,989 ratings — published 1994
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 2674 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 312,934 ratings — published 2007
Gone Girl (Hardcover)
by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2369 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.96 — 380,008 ratings — published 2012
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2349 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.78 — 77,678 ratings — published 2009
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 2064 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,584 ratings — published 1901
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1)
by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1814 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.68 — 115,673 ratings — published 1998
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1797 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.25 — 94,942 ratings — published 1892
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1767 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.10 — 86,915 ratings — published 1991
The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1759 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,809 ratings — published 1920
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by Tana French (shelved 1731 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.68 — 120,810 ratings — published 2007
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by Dan Brown (shelved 1689 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.55 — 243,020 ratings — published 2009
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1687 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.12 — 88,603 ratings — published 1887
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
by Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1582 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.14 — 33,745 ratings — published 1994
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1571 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.09 — 36,284 ratings — published 1926
Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1537 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.12 — 86,051 ratings — published 1997
Death on the Nile (Paperback)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1487 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 39,050 ratings — published 1937
Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1475 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,071 ratings — published 1998
A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)
by Sue Grafton (shelved 1445 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.76 — 73,486 ratings — published 1982
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1396 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,794 ratings — published 1930
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 1391 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.80 — 526,055 ratings — published 2003
High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1378 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 71,039 ratings — published 1999
Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1350 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 76,465 ratings — published 2000
The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1334 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,855 ratings — published 1936
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by Diane Setterfield (shelved 1325 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.91 — 189,491 ratings — published 2006
Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1312 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,528 ratings — published 2001
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
by Elizabeth Peters (shelved 1310 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.01 — 27,660 ratings — published 1975
The Westing Game (Paperback)
by Ellen Raskin (shelved 1295 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.02 — 71,865 ratings — published 1978
Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1266 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 72,635 ratings — published 2002
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 1250 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,051,973 ratings — published 2002
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by Charlaine Harris (shelved 1207 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 302,433 ratings — published 2001
To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1192 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 67,509 ratings — published 2003
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1149 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,175 ratings — published 2003
Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum, #11)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1149 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,711 ratings — published 2005
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1142 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,015 ratings — published 2010
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 1130 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.19 — 181,595 ratings — published 2001
Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, #10)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1126 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,773 ratings — published 2004
Rebecca (Paperback)
by Daphne du Maurier (shelved 1126 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,882 ratings — published 1938
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1108 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.48 — 88,726 ratings — published 1915
Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, #12)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1091 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,997 ratings — published 2006
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 1090 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.04 — 142,864 ratings — published 1980
Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1083 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,894 ratings — published 2007
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1070 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,877 ratings — published 1942
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 1060 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.83 — 62,769 ratings — published 1997
Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
by J.D. Robb (shelved 1056 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,366 ratings — published 1995
Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, #14)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1040 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 58,821 ratings — published 2008
“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
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crime-mystery, genre__mystery, mysteries, mystery-crime, and mystery-genre











