100 Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime

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2401	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 214,606 ratings score: 29, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2402	The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) by Josephine Tey 3.90 avg rating — 37,594 ratings score: 28, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2403	The Cereal Murders (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #3) by Diane Mott Davidson (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 11,942 ratings score: 27, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2403	Vox by Christina Dalcher (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 89,439 ratings score: 27, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2405	The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 86,810 ratings score: 26, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2406	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs 3.92 avg rating — 1,341,802 ratings score: 22, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2407	Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78,088 ratings score: 20, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2408	Slay Ride by Dick Francis 3.94 avg rating — 4,121 ratings score: 17, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2409	The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1) by Len Deighton 3.92 avg rating — 17,711 ratings score: 15, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2410	The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #1) by Carolyn Keene 3.98 avg rating — 82,829 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2411	Stormbreaker (Alex Rider #1) by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 107,517 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2412	Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean 4.14 avg rating — 46,733 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2413	The Bourne Deception (Jason Bourne, #7) by Eric Van Lustbader 4.03 avg rating — 11,846 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Chris (new)

Jul 16, 2021 08:22AM

Seem to be many a non-thriller on this list

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message 2: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Jul 16, 2021 01:43PM

Chris wrote: "Seem to be many a non-thriller on this list"

I agree. Several of the books I've read are on this list and I normally don't read thrillers...

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message 3: by A Hoppy Reader (new)

Jul 20, 2021 10:25AM

Hi, I'm a Librarian cleaning up lists. Could you please list the non-thrillers that need to be removed?

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message 4: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 20, 2021 10:50PM) (new)

Jul 20, 2021 10:48PM

A Hoppy Reader wrote: "Hi, I'm a Librarian cleaning up lists. Could you please list the non-thrillers that need to be removed?"

It's personal (which is why I didn't clean up this list); what one person considers a thriller might not be so for another... Personally, I don't consider any of the books on this list I've read as 'thrillers'...

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message 5: by A Hoppy Reader (new)

Jul 21, 2021 07:42AM

Thriller is a hard to define genre that is subject to personal taste.
I did check for duplicates and remove some biographies, autobiographies, self help, philosophy (mostly New Age) as well as commentary and analysis of various religions; basically anything nonfiction.

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message 6: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 21, 2021 10:45AM) (new)

Jul 21, 2021 10:40AM

A Hoppy Reader wrote: "Thriller is a hard to define genre that is subject to personal taste..."

So true...

There are far more than '100 Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime' though but with 20 pages it is almost impossble to clean this list up.

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message 7: by A Hoppy Reader (new)

Jul 22, 2021 07:55AM

You are only able to add 100 books to any list, even when you are the one creating a list. It is likely that this list contained 100 thrillers when first created, but others have since added more books over time.

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message 8: by Sarah (new)

Jul 22, 2021 07:37PM

I have a theory that this list (and several others that were created in the last month or so and already have thousands of books/votes) are being manipulated by spammers / bots. Is anyone tracking a master list somewhere?

Examples:
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message 9: by A Hoppy Reader (new)

Jul 23, 2021 07:41AM

Good question, I don't know and have never heard of a master list. I've passed on your concerns to the Superlibrarians, hopefully they can help.

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message 10: by rivka (new)

Jul 23, 2021 09:59AM

Superlibrarians are volunteers, like all Goodreads Librarians, and have no more insight into site functionality than any other Librarians.

There are no "master lists", but if you have concerns about spam or inappropriate user behavior on this list or any other, you are welcome to use the Contact Us link on the Help page, or flag the item(s) of concern.

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message 11: by Reader453 (new)

Aug 08, 2021 06:14AM

Fake list to promote Hail Storm by Brett Arquette.

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message 12: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Aug 08, 2021 07:09AM

Reader453 wrote: "Fake list to promote Hail Storm by Brett Arquette."

It is not so much a fake list as fake votes...

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message 13: by Reader453 (last edited Aug 12, 2021 02:10PM) (new)

Aug 12, 2021 02:09PM

BookLovingLady wrote: "Reader453 wrote: "Fake list to promote Hail Storm by Brett Arquette."

It is not so much a fake list as fake votes..."

Most of them are lists made by recently created accounts, so probably both.

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message 14: by Ellen (new)

May 01, 2022 04:59PM

#29 Steve Jobs while a good book is a biography and not a thriller.

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message 15: by Sarah (new)

May 01, 2022 09:06PM

@Ellen - this list was originally created to spam/promote a self-published book, so unfortunately, most of the "votes" are not real.

Unfortunately, while GR seems to have removed most of the spam/. sock puppet accounts, they didn't remove these fake lists. I deleted some of the really bad instances showing up on the first page.

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