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New York Times 100 Best Thrillers (2026)

New York Times • Sorted

Books 100

1
The girl with the dragon tattoo
Denise Mina, Andrea Mutti, Leonardo Manco
2
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
3
Mystic river
Dennis Lehane
4
Slow Horses
Mick Herron
5
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
6
In the Woods
Tana French
7
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
8
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
9
The Constant Gardener
John le Carré
10
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
11
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
12
The Hunter
Tana French
13
Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson
14
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Katia Benovich
15
The Keeper
Tana French
16
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
17
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
18
The Searcher
Tana French
19
The Secret Place
Tana French
20
A most wanted man
John le Carré
21
When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson
22
London rules
Mick Herron
23
Spook street
Mick Herron
24
One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson
25
Faithful Place
Tana French
26
The Martian
Andy Weir
27
11/22/63
Stephen King
28
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
29
The Likeness
Tana French
30
The Guards
Ken Bruen
31
Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell, Amir Tsukerman
32
The Witch Elm
Tana French
33
Dead Lions
Mick Herron
34
Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane
35
The round house
Louise Erdrich
36
Broken Harbor
Tana French, Stephen Hogan
37
The power of the dog
Don Winslow
38
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
39
Presumed Guilty
Scott Turow
40
Conclave
Robert Harris
41
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead, Yannick García
42
Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
43
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Snowman 44
The Snowman
Jo Nesbo (translated by Don Bartlett)
45
Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery)
Louise Penny
46
Bury Your Dead (Armand Gamache #6)
Louise Penny
47
Absolute Friends
John le Carré
48
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
49
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
50
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
51
The dog stars
Peter Heller
52
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
53
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
54
Saturday
Ian McEwan
55
Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead
56
The Secret Hours
Mick Herron
57
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1)
Michael Connelly
58
City of Bones
Michael Connelly
59
The late show
Michael Connelly
60
Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furst
61
Dead Water
Ann Cleeves
62
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
63
The Trees
Percival L. Everett, Javier Calvo, Jordi Martín Lloret
64
A legacy of spies
John le Carré
65
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
66
Transcription
Kate Atkinson, Fenella Woolgar
The Keeper of Lost Causes 67
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen (translated by Lisa Hartford)
68
The cartel
Don Winslow
69
A darkness more than night
Michael Connelly
70
Carter Beats the Devil
Glen David Gold
71
The Private Patient
P. D. James
72
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
73
Raven Black
Ann Cleeves
74
The Passage
Justin Cronin
75
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
76
The Sympathizer
Beruryah Ben Barukh, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Francois Chau
77
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
78
Room
Emma Donoghue
79
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
80
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
81
A delicate truth
John le Carré
82
The Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst
83
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
84
Prussian blue
Philip Kerr
85
The dry
Jane Harper
86
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
87
With No One As Witness
Elizabeth George
88
The long drop
Denise Mina
89
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
90
Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby
91
A banquet of consequences
Elizabeth George
92
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
93
We need to talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver
94
Dark fire
C. J. Sansom
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 95
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
96
The Lost Man
Jane Harper
97
The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson
98
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
99
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
100
The Old Man
Thomas Perry