The New York Times asked hundreds of bookish people—which included librarians, booksellers, editors, bookstagrammers, and crime writers (among them Freida McFadden, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Alyssa Cole, and Stephen King)—what the best 10 thrillers published since 2000 were.
The resulting list of 50 books spans countries and time lines, is populated by bestsellers like Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and really shows how many thriller novels have had big cultural moments over the last 26 years.
But voting isn’t quite over. If you’d like to share what you think of the best thrillers of the century so far, the NYT has a poll for readers to participate in.
Here are a few of Book Riot’s favorites from the list:
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Voted on by Lucy Foley.
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Voted on by Gillian Flynn.
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Voted on by Victor LaValle.
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Voted on by Lucy Foley.
In the Woods by Tana French
Voted on by Alex Michaelides.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Voted on by Liz Moore.
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Voted on by Dwight Garner.
Check out the whole list of The New York Times’ best 50 thriller novels of the century.