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 .
