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100 Mysteries And Thrillers To Read In A Lifetime: Readers' Picks

2,206 books — This list was created and voted on by Goodreads members.

The Editors at Amazon put together a list of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers. What books would you nominate for your bucket list of murder, espionage, and intrigue?

Here's a link to our final list: http://amazon.com/100mysteries/ref=10...

See also:
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Readers Picks
Best Mysteries of the 21st Century
Best Mysteries of the 20th Century
Popular Highly Rated Mystery

Best Mysteries by Subgenre
Best Cozy Mystery Series
Best Crime Mystery Books
Best Historical Mystery
Best Literary Mysteries
Best Thrillers

Edgar Awards:
Edgar Award Winners
Edgar Award Winners for Best First Novel
Edgar Award Winners for Fact Crime
Edgar Award Winners for Best Young Adult Fiction

Best Mysteries By Decade
1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020

Best Mysteries By Ratings
100,000 or more
50,000 to 99,999
25,000 to 49,999
10,000 to 24,999

1.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
4.18 3,428,895 ratings 83,476 reviews

2.

And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None
4.27 1,597,865 ratings 81,227 reviews

3.

The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
3.93 2,512,373 ratings 59,734 reviews

4.

A Story of Yesterday
A Story of Yesterday
4.53 19,174 ratings 735 reviews

5.

Gone Girl
Gone Girl
4.15 3,421,642 ratings 168,739 reviews

6.

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
4.20 724,916 ratings 48,456 reviews

7.

Rebecca
Rebecca
4.25 714,587 ratings 49,813 reviews

8.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
4.51 216,330 ratings 5,452 reviews

9.

Mystic River
Mystic River
4.17 164,481 ratings 6,093 reviews

10.

The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train
3.96 3,264,437 ratings 136,059 reviews