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Thursday, August 11, 2011

NPR's 100 Top Killer Thrillers (Last Summer's List)


Last summer the listeners of NPR, with some expert help, nominated and voted on their top 100 Thriller Killers.  I actually meant to post about this last summer, but totally forgot all about it.  I didn't think about it again until this year's list came out, Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books.  So before I shared the new list with you, I figured I better get the old one posted.  


What do you think about the choices made?  Myself, I'm pretty impressed that some of the books I voted for made the list.  It was nice to see Agatha Christie in the top 10, though I would have liked to see more of her books on it.  Dracula, coming in at 11 was a nice surprise.  I'm actually shocked by how many of these books I have never read, I've only read 12 of them (the red highlighted ones.)  I guess I have a lot of reading to do.




Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
  • 1. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
  • 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • 3. Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson
  • 4. The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum
  • 5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
  • 6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
  • 7. The Shining, by Stephen King
  • 8. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
  • 9. The Hunt tor Red October, by Tom Clancy
  • 10. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



    Jurassic Park
    • 11. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
    • 12. The Stand, by Stephen King
    • 13. The Bone Collector, by Jeffery Deaver
    • 14. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
    • 15. Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown
    • 16. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
    • 17. The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton
    • 18. Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
    • 19. The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
    • 20. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier



      Girl Who Played With Fire
      • 21. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
      • 22. It, by Stephen King
      • 23. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
      • 24. The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson
      • 25. Jaws, by Peter Benchley
      • 26. The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
      • 27. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
      • 28. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
      • 29. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
      • 30. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson



        Rosemary's Baby
        • 31. No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
        • 32. Gone Baby Gone, by Dennis Lehane
        • 33. Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith
        • 34. Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin
        • 35. Subterranean, by James Rollins
        • 36. Clear and Present Danger, by Tom Clancy
        • 37. Salem's Lot, by Stephen King
        • 38. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
        • 39. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carre
        • 40. The Poet, by Michael Connelly



          Pet Sematary
          • 41. The Boys from Brazil, by Ira Levin
          • 42. Cape Fear, by John MacDonald
          • 43. The Bride Collector, by Ted Dekker
          • 44. Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
          • 45. Dead Zone, by Stephen King
          • 46. The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon
          • 47. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre
          • 48. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
          • 49. Tell No One, by Harlan Coben
          • 50. Consent to Kill, by Vince Flynn



            61 Hours
            • 51. The 39 Steps, by John Buchan
            • 52. Blowback, by Brad Thor
            • 53. The Children of Men, by P.D. James
            • 54. 61 Hours, by Lee Child
            • 55. Marathon Man, by William Goldman
            • 56. The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
            • 57. 206 Bones, by Kathy Reichs
            • 58. Psycho, by Robert Bloch
            • 59. The Killing Floor, by Lee Child
            • 60. Rules of Prey, by John Sandford



              The Hunger Games
              • 61. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
              • 62. In the Woods, by Tana French
              • 63. Shogun, by James Clavell
              • 64. The Relic, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
              • 65. Intensity, by Dean Koontz
              • 66. Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
              • 67. Metzger's Dog, by Thomas Perry
              • 68. Timeline, by Michael Crichton
              • 69. Contact, by Carl Sagan
              • 70. What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman



                Secret History
                • 71. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
                • 72. The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
                • 73. Charm School, by Nelson DeMille
                • 74. Feed, by Mira Grant
                • 75. Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child
                • 76. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
                • 77. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
                • 78. The First Deadly Sin, by Lawrence Sanders
                • 79. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
                • 80. The Brotherhood of the Rose, by David Morrell



                  Goldfinger
                  • 81. Primal Fear, by William Diehl
                  • 82. The Templar Legacy, by Steve Berry
                  • 82. The Hard Way, by Lee Child [tie]
                  • 84. The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
                  • 85. Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady
                  • 86. Fail-Safe, by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
                  • 87. Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
                  • 88. The Eight, by Katherine Neville
                  • 89. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
                  • 90. Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming



                    Bangkok 8
                    • 91. Bangkok 8, by John Burdett
                    • 92. The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva
                    • 93. Hardball, by Sara Paretsky
                    • 94. The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
                    • 95. The Deep Blue Good-by, by John MacDonald
                    • 96. The Monkey's Raincoat, by Robert Crais
                    • 96. Berlin Game, by Len Deighton [tie]
                    • 98. A Simple Plan, by Scott Smith
                    • 99. Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith
                    • 100. Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain

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