The votes are in, and Goodreads’ readers have selected the following list as the best 100 mysteries & thrillers.

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Goodreads 100 Mysteries To Read In A Lifetime

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
3. The Da Vinci Code

   by Dan Brown

4. Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie
5. Rebecca

   by Daphne Du Maurier

6. The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
9. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries, No. 1) by Louise Penny
10. Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
11. A Time to Kill: A Novel by John Grisham
12. Angels & Demons: A Novel by Dan Brown
13. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
14. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
15. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
16. A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley Mysteries, No. 1) by Elizabeth George
17. The Name of the Rose: including the Author’s Postscript by Umberto Eco
18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
19. In the Woods by Tana French
20. The Bone Collector: The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver
21. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
22. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
23. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
24. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré
25. The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas père
26. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
27. Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
28. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
29. The Black Echo (A Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly
30. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
31. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
32. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
33. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
34. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
35. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
36. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
37. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
38. Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
39. A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, No. 1) by Sue Grafton
40. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
41. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
42. How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
43. The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple Mysteries) by Agatha Christie
44. Murder Must Advertise (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 10) by Dorothy L. Sayers
45. Into the Darkest Corner: A Novel by Elizabeth Haynes
46. The Pelican Brief: A Novel by John Grisham
47. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
48. Sharp Objects: A Novel by Gillian Flynn

49. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen  

    by Laurie R. King

50. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
51. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
52. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
53. The Cuckoo’s Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel) by Robert Galbraith
54. Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
55. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
56. Relic (Pendergast, Book 1) by Douglas Preston
57. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
58. A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 7) by Louise Penny
59. The Snowman: A Harry Hole Novel (7) by Jo Nesbø
60. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters
61. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
62. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
63. The Firm: A Novel by John Grisham
64. Storm Front (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
65. The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
66. From Russia with Love (James Bond) by Ian Fleming
67. A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
68. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers
69. Body of Evidence: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
70. Sister: A Novel by Rosamund Lupton
71. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
72. The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
73. A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah E. Harkness
74. Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
75. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
76. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 7) by P. D. James
77. Naked in Death (In Death, Book 1) by J.D. Robb
78. Casino Royale (James Bond) by Ian Fleming
79. Suspect by Robert Crais
80. A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (Brother Cadfael Mysteries) by Ellis Peters
81. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
82. The Boys from Brazil: A Novel by Ira Levin
83. Get Shorty: A Novel by Elmore Leonard
84. Kings & Queens by Courtney Vail
85. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
86. The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow
87. The Eight by Katherine Neville
88. Too Much Information by David Haskell
89. Night Film: A Novel by Marisha Pessl
90. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley
91. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
92. Fer-de-Lance (Rex Stout Library) by Rex Stout
93. The Innocence of Father Brown: Centennial Edition by G.K. Chesterton
94. Conduit (An Emily Monroe Novel) (Volume 1) by Angie Martin
95. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
96. The Bone Church: A Novel by Victoria Dougherty
97. A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
98. Into the Killer Sphere: a Chase Williams cozy mystery novella (Chase Williams detective stories) by Stefania Mattana
99. Jar City: A Reykjavi­k Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason
100. Death in a Strange Country: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon

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How many have you read? Do you agree with the Goodreads 100 Mysteries to Read in a Lifetime? Which books would you add?