Thrillers: 100 must-reads

Welcome to the world of thrillers / by David Hewson One hundred must-read thrillers / by David Morrell, Hank Wagner Theseus and the Minotaur (1500 B.C.) / Lee Child Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey (7th century B.C.) / William Bernhardt Beowulf (between 700 and 1000 A.D.) / Andrew Klavan William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1605-1606) / A.J. Hartley Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719-1722) / David Liss Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (1818) / Gary Braver James Fenimore Cooper's The last of the Mohicans (1826) / Rick Wilber Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) / Katherine Neville Alexandre Dumas' The count of Monte Cristo (1845) / Francine Mathews Wilkie Collins's The woman in white (1860) / Douglas Preston H. Rider Haggard's King Solomons mines (1885) / Norman L. Rubenstein Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) / Sarah Langan Anthony Hope's The prisoner of Zenda (1894) / Michael Palmer Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) / Carole Nelson Douglas H.G. Wells's The war of the worlds (1898) / Steven M. Wilson Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) / Tom Grace Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The hound of the Baskervilles (1901) / Laura Benedict Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness (1902) / H. Terrell Griffin Erskine Childers's The riddle of the sands (1903) / Christine Kling Jack London's The sea wolf (1904) / Jim Fusilli Baroness Emma Orczy's The scarlet pimpernel (1905) / Lisa Black Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the apes (1912) / W. Craig Reed Marie Belloc Lowndes's The lodger (1913) / James A. Moore John Buchan's The thirty-nine steps (1915) / Janet Berliner E. Phillips Oppenheim's The great impersonation (1920) / Justin Scott Richard Connell's "The most dangerous game" (1924) / Katherine Ramsland W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, or, the British agent (1928) / Melodie Johnson Howe P.G. Wodehouse's Summer lightning (1929) / R.L. Stine Edgar Wallace's King Kong (1933) / Kathleen Sharp Lester Dent's Doc Savage : the man of bronze (1933) / Mark T. Sullivan James M. Cain's The postman always rings twice (1934) / Joe R. Lansdale Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) / Allison Brennan Agatha Christie's And then there were none (1939) / David Morrell Eric Ambler's A coffin for Dimitrios (1939) / Ali Karim Geoffrey Household's Rogue male (1939) / David Morrell Helen Macinnes's Above suspicion (1941) / Gayle Lynds Cornell Woolrich's "Rear Window" (1942) / Thomas F. Monteleone Vera Caspary's Laura (1943) / M.J. Rose Kenneth Fearing's The big clock (1946) / Lincoln Child Graham Greene's The third man (1950) / Rob Palmer Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train (1950) / David Baldacci

Mickey Spillane's One lonely night (1951) / Max Allan Collins

Jim Thompson's The killer inside me (1953) / Scott Nicholson

Ernest K. Gann's The high and the mighty (1953) / Ward Larsen

Jack Finney's Invasion of the body snatchers (1955) / James Rollins

Hammond Innes's The wreck of the Mary Deare (1956) / Matt Lynn

Ian Fleming's From Russia, with love (1957) / Raymond Benson

Alistair MacLean's The guns of Navarone (1957) / Larry Gandle

Richard Condon's The Manchurian candidate (1959) / Robert S. Levinson

Len Deighton's The IPCRESS file (1962) / Jeffery Deaver

Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey's Seven days in May (1962) / James Grady

Lionel Davidson's The rose of Tibet (1962) / Milton C. Toby

Richard Stark's (Donald E. Westlake's) The hunter aka Point blank (1962) Duane Swierczynski

John le Carré's The spy who came in from the cold (1963) / Denise Hamilton

Wilbur Smith's When the lion feeds (1964) / W.D. Gagliani

Evelyn Anthony's The rendezvous (1967) / Sandra Brown

Michael Crichton's The Andromeda strain (1969) / Josh Conviser

James Dickey's Deliverance (1970) / Terry Watkins

Frederick Forsyth's The day of the jackal (1971) / F. Paul Wilson

Brian Garfields's Death wish (1972) / John Lescroart

David Morrell's First blood (1972) / Steve Berry

Trevanian's The Eiger sanction (1972) / Lee Goldberg

Charles McCarry's The tears of autumn (1974) / Hank Wagner

Peter Benchley's Jaws (1974) / P.J. Parrish

William Goldman's Marathon man (1974) /Hank Wagner

James Grady's Six days of the condor (1974) / Mark Terry

Jack Higgins's The eagle has landed (1975) / Zoë Sharp

Joseph Wambaugh's The choirboys (1975) / James O. Born

Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic! (1976) / Grant Blackwood

Ira Levin's The boys from Brazil (1976) / Daniel Kalla

Robin Cook's Coma (1977) / CJ Lyons

Ken Follett's Eye of the needle (1978) / Tess Gerritsen

Ross Thomas's Chinaman's chance (1978) / John D. MacDonald's The green ripper (1079) / J.A. Konrath

Justin Scott's The shipkiller (1079) / Lawrence Light

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne identity (1980) / Linda L. Richards

Eric Van Lustbader's The ninja (1980) / J.D. Rhoades

Thomas Harris's Red dragon (1981) / Bev Vincent

Jack Ketchum's Off season (1981) / Blake Crouch

Thomas Perry's The butcher's boy (1982) / Robert Liparulo

Tom Clancy's The hunt for red October (1984) / Chris Kuzneski

F. Paul Wilson's The tomb (1984) / Heather Graham

Andrew Vachss's Flood (1985) / Barry Eisler

Stephen King's Misery (1987) / Chris Mooney

Nelson DeMille's The charm school (1988) / J.T. Ellison

Dean Koontz's Watchers (1988) / Lee Thomas

Katherine Neville's The eight (1988) / Shirley Kennett

Petrer Straub's Koko (1988) / Hank Wagner

Johns Grisham's The firm (1991) / M. Diane Vogt

R.L. Stine's Silent night (1991) / Jon Land

James Patterson's Along came a spider (1992) / Mary SanGiovanni

Stephen Hunter's Point of impact (1993) / Christopher Rice

Johns Lescroart's The 13th juror (1994) / Karna Small Bodman

Sandra Brown's The witness (1995) / Deborah LeBlanc

David Baldacci's Absolute power (1996) / Rhodi Hawk

Gayle Lynds's Masquerade (1996) / Hank Phillippi Ryan

Lee Child's Killing floor (1997) / Marcus Sakey

Jeffery Deaver's The bone collector (1997) / Jeffrey J. Mariotte

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code (2003) / Steve Berry .