Best Crime & Mystery Books
The best of crime and mystery books.
If the book is part of a series, please only vote for the first book.
Best Mysteries by Subgenre:
Best Cozy Mystery Series
Best Crime Mystery Books
Best Historical Mystery
Best Literary Mysteries
Best Mysteries by Ratings:
All mysteries with at least 50,000 ratings
Popular Mysteries on Goodreads with between 25000 and 49999 ratings
Best Mysteries By Decade
Best Mysteries from the 1970s
Best Mysteries from the 1980s
Best Mysteries from the 1990s
Best Mysteries from the 2000s
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
If the book is part of a series, please only vote for the first book.
Best Mysteries by Subgenre:
Best Cozy Mystery Series
Best Crime Mystery Books
Best Historical Mystery
Best Literary Mysteries
Best Mysteries by Ratings:
All mysteries with at least 50,000 ratings
Popular Mysteries on Goodreads with between 25000 and 49999 ratings
Best Mysteries By Decade
Best Mysteries from the 1970s
Best Mysteries from the 1980s
Best Mysteries from the 1990s
Best Mysteries from the 2000s
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
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list created June 10th, 2008
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John D. Macdonald is great too.
You must hate Hardboiled fiction....



Thanks - I will.



Susanna wrote: "Isaac Asimov wrote several novel-length mysteries (albeit often ones with a science fiction setting): The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and [book:Murder at the ABA|470356..."
Murder at the ABA is a readable non-SF mystery....If I remember rightly, ABA is the American BOOKSELLERS Assoc.
Thom wrote: "In Cold Blood and Fatal Vision are both TRUE CRIME non-fiction works.....IF we put True Crime on this list, then clearly Anne Rule and Doc Olsen should listed."
I found In Cold Blood but not any by Ann Rule and was wondering. There is nothing so terrifying as The Stranger Beside Me!..... and it took them so long to catch him!
I found In Cold Blood but not any by Ann Rule and was wondering. There is nothing so terrifying as The Stranger Beside Me!..... and it took them so long to catch him!
I went to 781 or so and NEVER found Ann Rule! Did overlook her? She should be number ONE!

Ann Rule is probably listed under TRUE CRIME
Think I created a list like that last night but will double check in case I duplicated lists.
falling asleep,
Alice
falling asleep,
Alice
Yes, I did a dup list. How can I delete it?



Well, I'll vote for them!


Agreed. His 'Prey' series with Davenport is excellent.


will try more scandinavians. list is not by quality
of writing, obviously. where are martha grimes, len
deighton, le carre, steinhauer, and many others ?
agree with dan brown observation. so illiterate that he used 'from vinci' rather than leonardo in his title, as in 'the from vinci code'. not even a writer. popular only because his 'sacred feminine' gimmick appealed to u.s. women's vanity.
larsson not so good, either. pubishing these days
is getting to be like a hollywood insider called the
movie business - 'all hype'.

deighton, le carre, steinhauer, and many others ?"
You could try voting for them.
Im normally into historic fiction


I would like a downloadable list of this kind as well. and/or the ability to "select all" of the books and add them to a category like "For consideration."





Furthermore, especially in mystery series, the books are often stand alone, even if they are part of a series. It makes perfect sense, therefore, to vote for each volume separately.
Anyone can add books to this list.