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Top 100 mystery, thriller & horror books of all time

The top 100 mystery, thriller & horror books of all time, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.

  1. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1865
  2. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley · 1818
  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890
  4. The Stand Stephen King · 1978
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson · 2005
  6. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885
  7. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown · 2003
  8. And Then There Were None Agatha Christie · 1939
  9. Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897
  10. The Green Mile Stephen King · 1996
  11. The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton · 1969
  12. The Shining Stephen King · 1977
  13. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
  14. A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887
  15. The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe · 1842
  16. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux · 1910
  17. Jurassic Park Michael Crichton · 1990
  18. The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980
  19. Angels & Demons Dan Brown · 2000
  20. The Godfather Mario Puzo · 1969
  21. The Island of Dr Moreau H. G. Wells · 1895
  22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
  23. The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891
  24. Coraline Neil Gaiman · 2002
  25. Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie · 1934
  26. The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe · 1822
  27. The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe · 1841
  28. The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris · 1988
  29. The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1842
  30. Cujo Stephen King · 1981
  31. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1905
  32. 'Salem's Lot Stephen King · 1975
  33. The Long Walk Stephen King · 1979
  34. Carrie Stephen King · 1974
  35. It Stephen King · 1986
  36. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon · 2003
  37. Pet Sematary Stephen King · 1983
  38. The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891
  39. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie · 1926
  40. The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe · 1842
  41. The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith · 2013
  42. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902
  43. The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft · 1926
  44. The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe · 1842
  45. The Collector John Fowles · 1963
  46. The A.B.C. Murders Agatha Christie · 1936
  47. Curtain Agatha Christie · 1975
  48. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré · 1963
  49. Bleak House Charles Dickens · 1852
  50. She: A History of Adventure H. Rider Haggard · 1887
  51. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe · 1839
  52. The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft · 1936
  53. Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice · 1976
  54. Inferno Dan Brown · 2013
  55. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1930
  56. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 1819
  57. The Lost Symbol Dan Brown · 2009
  58. Deception Point Dan Brown · 2001
  59. Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez · 1981
  60. Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay · 2004
  61. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier · 1938
  62. Casino Royale Ian Fleming · 1953
  63. Flowers in the Attic V. C. Andrews · 1979
  64. Fatherland Robert Harris · 1992
  65. The Naked Sun Isaac Asimov · 1956
  66. The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie · 1916
  67. A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
  68. Red Dragon Thomas Harris · 1981
  69. At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft · 1936
  70. Jaws Peter Benchley · 1974
  71. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1894
  72. Misery Stephen King · 1987
  73. Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes Scott Cawthon · 2015
  74. The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 1764
  75. The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell · 1924
  76. In Cold Blood Truman Capote · 1966
  77. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins · 1860
  78. To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway · 1937
  79. The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers · 1895
  80. Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871
  81. The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle · 1915
  82. Electra Sophocles · c. 410 BC
  83. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe · 1838
  84. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins · 2015
  85. The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890
  86. The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs · 1902
  87. The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson · 2005
  88. Another Yukito Ayatsuji · 2009
  89. The Turn of the Screw Henry James · 1898
  90. Death on the Nile Agatha Christie · 1937
  91. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
  92. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy · 2005
  93. The Queen of the Damned Anne Rice · 1988
  94. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler · 1939
  95. Digital Fortress Dan Brown · 1998
  96. The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie · 1929
  97. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson · 2005
  98. Divergent Veronica Roth · 2011
  99. The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov · 1954
  100. The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith · 1955

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