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Popular Mystery Books
Popular Mystery Books
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 4598 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,101,796 ratings — published 2003
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 3991 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.17 — 184,826 ratings — published 1939
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 3447 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.17 — 379,663 ratings — published 2006
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 3261 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.75 — 967,102 ratings — published 2000
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 2884 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.08 — 83,437 ratings — published 1934
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2760 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.01 — 239,359 ratings — published 1994
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 2739 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 318,326 ratings — published 2007
Gone Girl (Hardcover)
by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2508 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.95 — 407,140 ratings — published 2012
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2409 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.78 — 79,525 ratings — published 2009
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 2111 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 77,060 ratings — published 1902
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1)
by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1853 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.68 — 118,297 ratings — published 1998
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1823 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.25 — 97,767 ratings — published 1892
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1805 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.10 — 88,966 ratings — published 1996
The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1801 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,393 ratings — published 1920
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by Tana French (shelved 1775 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,280 ratings — published 2007
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by Dan Brown (shelved 1752 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.55 — 253,648 ratings — published 2009
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1731 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.12 — 92,789 ratings — published 1887
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1605 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.09 — 37,641 ratings — published 1926
Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1570 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.12 — 88,074 ratings — published 1997
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1515 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.98 — 40,351 ratings — published 1937
Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1510 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 83,024 ratings — published 1998
A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)
by Sue Grafton (shelved 1464 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.76 — 74,695 ratings — published 1982
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1420 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.98 — 56,354 ratings — published 1930
High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1410 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 72,770 ratings — published 1999
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 1408 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.80 — 543,034 ratings — published 2003
Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1379 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 78,241 ratings — published 2000
The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1355 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,904 ratings — published 1936
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by Diane Setterfield (shelved 1349 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.91 — 193,779 ratings — published 2006
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
by Elizabeth Peters (shelved 1346 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,137 ratings — published 1975
Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1343 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.14 — 76,285 ratings — published 2001
The Westing Game (Paperback)
by Ellen Raskin (shelved 1329 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.03 — 73,586 ratings — published 1978
Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1292 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 74,353 ratings — published 2002
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 1285 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,077,723 ratings — published 2002
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by Charlaine Harris (shelved 1221 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 312,195 ratings — published 2001
To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1219 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.15 — 69,082 ratings — published 2003
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1180 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,534 ratings — published 2010
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1172 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,322 ratings — published 2003
Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum, #11)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1169 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,219 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (shelved 1166 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.19 — 188,028 ratings — published 2001
Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, #10)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1155 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.11 — 62,175 ratings — published 2004
Rebecca (Paperback)
by Daphne du Maurier (shelved 1147 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.16 — 201,559 ratings — published 1938
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 1139 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.48 — 92,583 ratings — published 1927
Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, #12)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1114 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.11 — 62,410 ratings — published 2006
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 1107 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.04 — 147,459 ratings — published 1980
Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1103 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.05 — 62,288 ratings — published 2007
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 1098 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.81 — 23,275 ratings — published 1924
Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
by J.D. Robb (shelved 1085 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,648 ratings — published 1995
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 1079 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.83 — 64,768 ratings — published 1997
Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, #14)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1062 times as mystery)
avg rating 3.97 — 60,174 ratings — published 2008
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by Caleb Carr (shelved 1049 times as mystery)
avg rating 4.01 — 75,867 ratings — published 1994
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
crime-mystery, genre__mystery, mysteries, mystery-crime, and mystery-genre
