Proculin Posted April 21, 2021 Share #1 Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) NPR - Top 100 Killer Thrillers Collection Language: English | Format: epub | 2021 | Size: 83.4 MB List: 01-The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris 02-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 03-Kiss the Girls - James Patterson 04-The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum 05-In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 06-The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 07-The Shining - Stephen King 08-And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie 09-The Hunt tor Red October - Tom Clancy 10-The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 11-Dracula - Bram Stoker 12-The Stand - Stephen King 13-The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver 14-Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton 15-Angels & Demons - Dan Brown 16-A Time to Kill - John Grisham 17-The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton 18-Mystic River - Dennis Lehane 19-The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth 20-Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier 21-Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett 22-It - Stephen King 23-The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 24-The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson 25-Jaws - Peter Benchley 26-The Alienist - Caleb Carr 27-Red Dragon - Thomas Harris 28-Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow 29-The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett 30-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson 31-No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy 32-Gone Baby Gone - Dennis Lehane 33-Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith 34-Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin 35-Subterranean - James Rollins 36-Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy 37-Salem's Lot - Stephen King 38-Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane 39-The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre 40-The Poet - Michael Connelly 41-The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin 42-Cape Fear - John MacDonald 43-The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker 44-Pet Sematary - Stephen King 45-Dead Zone - Stephen King 46-The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon 47-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carre 48-The Talented Mr-Ripley - Patricia Highsmith 49-Tell No One - Harlan Coben 50-Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn 51-The 39 Steps - John Buchan 52-Blowback - Brad Thor 53-The Children of Men - P.D-James 54-61 Hours - Lee Child 55-Marathon Man - William Goldman 56-The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 57-206 Bones - Kathy Reichs 58-Psycho - Robert Bloch 59-The Killing Floor - Lee Child 60-Rules of Prey - John Sandford 61-The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins 62-In the Woods - Tana French 63-Shogun - James Clavell 64-The Relic - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 65-Intensity - Dean Koontz 66-Casino Royale - Ian Fleming 67-Metzger's Dog - Thomas Perry 68-Timeline - Michael Crichton 69-Contact - Carl Sagan 70-What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman 71-The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 72-The Cabinet of Curiosities - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 73-Charm School - Nelson DeMille 74-Feed - Mira Grant 75-Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child 76-Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay 77-The Secret History - Donna Tartt 78-The First Deadly Sin - Lawrence Sanders 79-Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson 80-The Brotherhood of the Rose - David Morrell 81-Primal Fear - William Diehl 82-The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry [tie] 82-The Hard Way - Lee Child [tie] 84-The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper 85-Six Days of the Condor - James Grady 86-Fail-Safe - Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 87-Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith 88-The Eight - Katherine Neville 89-The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown 90-Goldfinger - Ian Fleming 91-Bangkok 8 - John Burdett 92-The Kill Artist - Daniel Silva 93-Hardball - Sara Paretsky 94-The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte 95-The Deep Blue Good-by - John MacDonald 96-The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais 96-Berlin Game - Len Deighton [tie] 98-A Simple Plan - Scott Smith 99-Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith 100-Heartsick - Chelsea Cain The NPR (National Public Radio, U.S.A.) audience nominated some 600 novels to the "Killer Thrillers" poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots-The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code, Presumed Innocent to Pet Sematary-What these top 100 titles share, however, is that all of them are fast-moving tales of suspense and adventure. And menace-Critic Maureen Corrigan, who served on the advisory panel of experts for this project, was surprised - how dark many of the choices are-"Even the [Agatha] Christie pick, And Then There Were None, is one of her creepier novels." Co-panelist, novelist and critic Patrick Anderson was more impressed with the overall quality of the choices: "The vast majority of these are very good books or classics ..-Thomas Harris, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith — this audience knows good writing." Of course, there will be arguments about whether some of these books truly count as "thrillers." (You know who you are, Shogun.) The many 19th-century novels, in particular, may raise eyebrows-But David Morrell, novelist and co-editor of the recent anthology Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, defends such choices-"A lot of people see 'thriller' and think 'spy book,' " Morrell says-But a book like The Last of the Mohicans is "unquestionably a thriller — filled with chases and derring-do." Morrell also mentioned Dracula ("take away the supernatural elements and it's a serial-killer novel") and The Count of Monte Cristo-"As long as you have that breathlessness and sense of excitement," Morrell says, "then they're in." Who is the NPR audience's favorite thriller writer? It's the King, of course — Stephen King, who landed six titles in the top 100-Lee Child comes next, with four winning books-And, at three titles each, Michael Crichton, Dennis Lehane, Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson tie for third. Polls can help us understand an audience — and even make predictions about it-Based on the some 100,000 votes cast in this survey, the following prediction seems a safe one: Armed with the list below, none of us will need to consult a psychic, supersleuth or Harvard "symbologist" to unearth pulse-quickening vacation reads during the rest of this summer and for many months to come. Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 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