Get the faultless and recent list of: NPR’s Top 100 Killer Thrillers.
Top 10: NPR’s Top 100 Killer Thrillers
Ranking | Items |
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#1 |
Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) |
#2 |
Silence of the Lambs |
#3 |
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo |
#4 |
In Cold Blood |
#5 |
The Da Vinci Code |
#6 |
The Shining (Stephen King) |
#7 |
And Then There Were None |
#8 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
#9 |
Dracula |
#10 |
The Stand |

NPR’s Top 100 Killer Thrillers
Rank | Items |
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#1 |
Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) |
#2 |
Silence of the Lambs |
#3 |
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo |
#4 |
In Cold Blood |
#5 |
The Da Vinci Code |
#6 |
The Shining (Stephen King) |
#7 |
And Then There Were None |
#8 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
#9 |
Dracula |
#10 |
The Stand |
#11 |
The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton) |
#12 |
The Day of the Jackal |
#13 |
Eye of the Needle |
#14 |
The Alienist |
#15 |
Salem’s Lot |
#16 |
Dead Zone |
#17 |
The Relic |
#18 |
The Templar Legacy |
#19 |
The Lost Symbol |
#20 |
The Bourne Identity (Novel) |
#21 |
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy) |
#22 |
Angels & Demons |
#23 |
A Time to Kill |
#24 |
Mystic River (Dennis Lehane) |
#25 |
It (Stephen King) |
#26 |
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Steig Larsson) |
#27 |
Jaws |
#28 |
Presumed Innocent |
#29 |
The Maltese Falcon |
#30 |
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (Steig Larsson) |
#31 |
Gone, Baby, Gone |
#32 |
Subterranean |
#33 |
Clear and Present Danger |
#34 |
Shutter Island |
#35 |
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
#36 |
The Poet |
#37 |
The Manchurian Candidate (Richard Condon) |
#38 |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
#39 |
The 39 Steps |
#40 |
206 Bones |
#41 |
Psycho |
#42 |
Casino Royale |
#43 |
Timeline (Michael Crichton) |
#44 |
Cabinet of Curiosities |
#45 |
The Brotherhood of the Rose |
#46 |
Kiss the Girls |
#47 |
The Bone Collector |
#48 |
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) |
#49 |
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) |
#50 |
Red Dragon |
#51 |
No Country for Old Men |
#52 |
Gorky Park |
#53 |
Rosemary’s Baby |
#54 |
The Boys From Brazil |
#55 |
Cape Fear |
#56 |
The Bride Collector |
#57 |
Pet Sematary |
#58 |
The Talented Mr. Ripley |
#59 |
Tell No One (Harlan Coben) |
#60 |
Consent to Kill |
#61 |
Blowback |
#62 |
The Children of Men |
#63 |
61 Hours |
#64 |
Marathon Man |
#65 |
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) |
#66 |
The Killing Floor |
#67 |
Rules of Prey |
#68 |
In the Woods |
#69 |
Shogun (James Clavell) |
#70 |
Intensity |
#71 |
Metzger’s Dog |
#72 |
Contact |
#73 |
What the Dead Know |
#74 |
The Shadow of the Wind |
#75 |
The Charm School |
#76 |
Feed |
#77 |
Gone Tomorrow |
#78 |
Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
#79 |
The Secret History |
#80 |
The First Deadly Sin |
#81 |
Cryptonomicon |
#82 |
Primal Fear |
#83 |
The Hard Way |
#84 |
Last of the Mohicans |
#85 |
Six Days of the Condor |
#86 |
Fail-Safe |
#87 |
Strangers on a Train (Patricia Highsmith) |
#88 |
The Eight |
#89 |
Goldfinger |
#90 |
Bangkok 8 |
#91 |
The Kill Artist |
#92 |
Hardball |
#93 |
The Club Dumas |
#94 |
The Deep Blue Good-By |
#95 |
The Monkey’s Raincoat |
#96 |
Berlin Game |
#97 |
A Simple Plan |
#98 |
Child 44 |
#99 |
Heartsick |
#100 |
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) |