Contents -- Welcome to the World of Thrillers -- One Hundred Must-Read Thrillers -- 1 Theseus and the Minotaur (1500 B.C.) -- 2 Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey (7th Century B.C.) -- 3 Beowulf (between 700 and 1000 A.D.) -- 4 William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1605-1606) -- 5 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719-1722) -- 6 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) -- 7 James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) -- 8 Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) -- 9 Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) -- 10 Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860) -- 11 Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (1874) -- 12 H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) -- 13 Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) -- 14 Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) -- 15 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) -- 16 H. G.Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) -- 17 Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) -- 18 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -- 19 Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902) -- 20 Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands (1903) -- 21 Jack London's The Sea Wolf (1904) -- 22 Baroness Emma Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) -- 23 Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes (1912) -- 24 Marie Belloc Lowndes's The Lodger (1913) -- 25 John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) -- 26 E. Phillips Oppenheim's The Great Impersonation (1920) -- 27 Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924) -- 28 W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden or The British Agent (1928) -- 29 P. G.Wodehouse's Summer Lightning (1929) -- 30 Edgar Wallace's King Kong (1933) -- 31 Lester Dent's Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1933) -- 32 James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) -- 33 Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) -- 34 Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (1939).

35 Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939) -- 36 Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male (1939) -- 37 Helen Macinnes's Above Suspicion (1941) -- 38 Cornell Woolrich's "Rear Window" (1942) -- 39 Vera Caspary's Laura (1943) -- 40 Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock (1946) -- 41 Graham Greene's The Third Man (1950) -- 42 Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train (1950) -- 43 Mickey Spillane's One Lonely Night (1951) -- 44 Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me (1952) -- 45 Ernest K. Gann's The High and the Mighty (1953) -- 46 Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955) -- 47 Hammond Innes's The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956) -- 48 Ian Fleming's From Russia, with Love (1957) -- 49 Alistair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone (1957) -- 50 Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1959) -- 51 Len Deighton's The IPCRESS File (1962) -- 52 Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey's Seven Days in May (1962) -- 53 Lionel Davidson's The Rose of Tibet (1962) -- 54 Richard Stark's (Donald E.Westlake's) The Hunter aka Point Blank (1962) -- 55 John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) -- 56 Wilbur Smith's When the Lion Feeds (1964) -- 57 Evelyn Anthony's The Rendezvous (1967) -- 58 Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain (1969) -- 59 James Dickey's Deliverance (1970) -- 60 Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal (1971) -- 61 Brian Garfield's Death Wish (1972) -- 62 David Morrell's First Blood (1972) -- 63 Trevanian's The Eiger Sanction (1972) -- 64 Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn (1974) -- 65 Peter Benchley's Jaws (1974) -- 66 William Goldman's Marathon Man (1974) -- 67 James Grady's Six Days of the Condor (1974) -- 68 Jack Higgins's The Eagle Has Landed (1975) -- 69 Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys (1975) -- 70 Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic! (1976) -- 71 Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil (1976) -- 72 Robin Cook's Coma (1977).

73 Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle (1978) -- 74 Ross Thomas's Chinaman's Chance (1978) -- 75 John D. MacDonald's The Green Ripper (1979) -- 76 Justin Scott's The Shipkiller (1979) -- 77 Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity (1980) -- 78 Eric Van Lustbader's The Ninja (1980) -- 79 Thomas Harris's Red Dragon (1981) -- 80 Jack Ketchum's Off Season (1981) -- 81 Thomas Perry's The Butcher's Boy (1982) -- 82 Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October (1984) -- 83 F. Paul Wilson's The Tomb (1984) -- 84 Andrew Vachss's Flood (1985) -- 85 Stephen King's Misery (1987) -- 86 Nelson DeMille's The Charm School (1988) -- 87 Dean Koontz's Watchers (1988) -- 88 Katherine Neville's The Eight (1988) -- 89 Peter Straub's Koko (1988) -- 90 John Grisham's The Firm (1991) -- 91 R.L. Stine's Silent Night (1991) -- 92 James Patterson's Along Came a Spider (1992) -- 93 Stephen Hunter's Point of Impact (1993) -- 94 John Lescroart's The 13th Juror (1994) -- 95 Sandra Brown's The Witness (1995) -- 96 David Baldacci's Absolute Power (1996) -- 97 Gayle Lynds's Masquerade (1996) -- 98 Lee Child's Killing Floor (1997) -- 99 Jeffery Deaver's The Bone Collector (1997) -- 100 Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (2003) -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.