NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers

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The following list of "most pulse-quickening, suspenseful novels ever written" as voted by NPR’s audience was published in August 2010. Listed here in order of rank. For more details:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128718927

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  1. 1.
    The Silence of the Lambs
    by Thomas Harris
  2. 2.
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    by Stieg Larsson
  3. 3.
    Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross)
    by James Patterson
  4. 4.
    The Bourne Identity: A Novel
    by Robert Ludlum
  5. 5.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  6. 6.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
  7. 7.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King
  8. 8.
    And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie Collection)
    by Agatha Christie
  9. 9.
    ?
    The Hunt for Red Ocober
    by Tom Clancy
  10. 10.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. 11.
    Dracula (Qualitas Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  12. 12.
    The Stand (original version)
    by Stephen King
  13. 13.
    The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
    by Jeffery Deaver
  14. 14.
    Jurassic Park
    by Michael Crichton
  15. 15.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown
  16. 16.
    A Time to Kill: A Novel
    by John Grisham
  17. 17.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Michael Crichton
  18. 18.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane
  19. 19.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Frederick Forsyth
  20. 20.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier
  21. 21.
    Eye of the Needle
    by Ken Follett
  22. 22.
    IT by Stephen King

  23. 23.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    Jaws
    by Peter Benchley
  26. 26.
    The Alienist
    by Caleb Carr
  27. 27.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris
  28. 28.
    Presumed Innocent
    by Scott Turow
  29. 29.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  30. 30.
    The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
    by Stieg Larsson
  31. 31.
    No Country for Old Men

  32. 32.
    Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel
    by Dennis Lehane
  33. 33.
    Gorky Park
    by Martin Cruz Smith
  34. 34.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin
  35. 35.
    Subterranean
    by James Rollins
  36. 36.
    Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan)
    by Tom Clancy
  37. 37.
    'Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King
  38. 38.
    Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
    by Dennis Lehane (Author)
  39. 39.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre
  40. 40.
    ?
    The Poet
    by Michael Connelly
  41. 41.
    ?
    The Boys from Brazil - a Novel
    by IRA LEVIN
  43. 43.
    The Bride Collector
    by Ted Dekker
  44. 44.
    Pet Sematary
    by Stephen King
  45. 45.
    The Dead Zone (Signet)
    by Stephen King
  46. 46.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by Richard Condon
  47. 47.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre
  48. 48.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith
  49. 49.
    Tell No One: A Novel
    by Harlan Coben
  50. 50.
    Consent to Kill: A Thriller
    by Vince Flynn

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