Most Popular Thriller Books

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Millennium #1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Crime Fiction · Nordic Noir · Movie · Translation · Thriller

2008

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Movie · Mystery · Thriller

November 6, 1939

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Crime Fiction · Historical Fiction · Mainstream · Mystery · Thriller

1983

The Passage Trilogy #1

The Passage

Justin Cronin

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Vampires · Thriller

June 6, 2010

Pendergast #4

Still Life with Crows

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

2003

Millennium #2

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

Crime Fiction · Nordic Noir · Movie · Translation · Thriller

2009

11/22/63

Stephen King

Science Fiction · Thriller

November 3, 2011

Pendergast #6

Dance of Death

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

2005

Pendergast #3

The Cabinet of Curiosities

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

2002

Pendergast #5

Brimstone

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

2004

The Passage Trilogy #2

The Twelve

Justin Cronin

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Vampires · Thriller

October 16, 2012

172 Hours on the Moon

Johan Harstad

Science Fiction · Young Adult · Translation · Thriller

April 2012

In Death #1

Naked in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1995

In Death #6

Vengeance in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1997

Odd Thomas #1

Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Thriller

2003

Jurassic Park #1

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Science Fiction · Thriller

1990

Bill Hodges Trilogy #1

Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King

Thriller

May 30, 2014

In Death #5

Ceremony in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1997

The Eight #1

The Eight

Katherine Neville

Historical Fiction · Mainstream · Mystery · Thriller

December 27, 1988

Wayward Pines #1

Pines

Blake Crouch

Science Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

August 2012

Bill Hodges Trilogy #2

Finders Keepers

Stephen King

Thriller

May 28, 2015

Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories #5

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Horror · Cozy Mystery · Crime Fiction · Sherlock Holmes · Historical Fiction

1902

In Death #4

Rapture in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1996

The Passage Trilogy #3

The City of Mirrors

Justin Cronin

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Vampires · Thriller

May 24, 2016

Persef0ne #1

Don't Turn Around

Michelle Gagnon

Science Fiction · Young Adult · Thriller

August 28, 2012

In Death #3

Immortal in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1996

The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall

Science Fiction · Science Fantasy · Thriller

2007

Robert Langdon #2

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

Mainstream · Mystery · Thriller

2003

Robert Langdon #4

Inferno

Dan Brown

Mainstream · Mystery · Thriller

May 14, 2013

In Death #2

Glory in Death

J. D. Robb

Science Fiction · Romance · Thriller

1995

Hercule Poirot #5

The Big Four

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 27, 1927

The Sands of Sarasvati

Risto Isomäki

Science Fiction · Translation · Thriller

2013

Robert Langdon #5

Origin

Dan Brown

Mainstream · Mystery · Thriller

October 2, 2017

Harper Connelly #3

An Ice Cold Grave

Charlaine Harris

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Thriller

2007

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Horror · Vampires · Historical Fiction · Thriller

2005

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

Nordic Noir · Translation · Mystery · Thriller

September 1, 1993