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International Thriller Writers's "Must Read Thrillers"

The following is a list of those ITW Inc. believes made a difference, compiled with the advice of several thriller reviewers.

(found at: http://www.thrillerwriters.org/mustread.html)

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1. The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas pere
  
3. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
4. King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
  
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Whole Story)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
  
7. Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
  
8.
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 Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
  
9. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
  
11. The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
by Erskine Childers
  
12. Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
13. The Lodger
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
  
14. The 39 Steps
by JOHN BUCHAN
  
15. Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
by Rafael Sabatini
  
16.
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 The Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Connell
  
17. Ashenden Or: The British Agent
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James Mallahan Cain
  
19. A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
  
20. Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks)
by Geoffrey Household
  
21.
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 Above Suspicion
by Helen MacInnes
  
22. Night Has a Thousand Eyes: a novel of suspense
by Cornell Woolrich
  
23. The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics)
by Kenneth Fearing
  
24. The Third Man
by Graham Greene
  
25. Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
  
26. The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
  
27.
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 The Birds
by Daphne DuMaurier
  
28. Campbell's Kingdom
by Hammond Innes
  
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
by Jack Finney
  
30. From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels)
by Ian Fleming
  
31. The Manchurian Candidate
by Richard Condon
  
32. The Ipcress File
by Len Deighton
  
33.
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 Seven Days in May
by Fletcher Knebel
  
34. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  
35. Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair MacLean
  
36. The Quiller Memorandum (Otto Penzler Presents...)
by Adam Hall
  
37. The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
  
38. Deliverance
by James Dickey
  
39. The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
  
40.
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 DEATH WISH
by Brian Garfield
  
41. First Blood
by David Morrell
  
42. The Eiger Sanction: A Novel
by Trevanian
  
43. The Onion Field
by Joseph Wambaugh
  
44. Jaws
by Peter Benchley
  
45. Marathon Man
by William Goldman
  
46. Six Days of the Condor
by James Grady
  
47. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
  
48. The Eagle Has Landed
by Jack Higgins
  
49. RAISE THE TITANIC (Clive Cussler)
by Clive Cussler
  
50. The Boys from Brazil (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
by Ira Levin
  
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Created by harry_potter on Jun 13, 2006.