A Good Thriller discussion

you have to pick your favourite 3 books, I know it is not easy, take your time. the books you pick might be the new favourite books for someone else ;)

22-11-63 by Stephen King
Parce que je t'aime by Guillaume Musso
Full Dark no Stars byvStephen King

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. My Antonia by Willa Cather. But loved 11.22.63 too and my heart hurts because it's like choosing your favourite child. Love Doris Lessing's The grass is Singing too and... too many lovely books.

yess Tracy after I chose I almost modified the topic to your to five books so I can pick more lol, after you pick your three books, you start feeling guilty :D

Ooh heck. I'd have to have a big think.... and my brain....!

members gonna hate me lol

Three top books? I can't even narrow my author list down to 3 favorites.

There are so many books that are favorites for a variety of reasons - the story, the book that turned me on to a series, some event in the story that resonated with me - that I can't say I liked this one better than that one.

Going through my list of books, I could only pare the 1848 down to 19.

The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes . Snow Wolf by Glenn Meade

Aymen wrote: "you have to pick your favourite 3 books, I know it is not easy, take your time. the books you pick might be the new favourite books for someone else ;)"

My top three mystery-thrillers in the last five years:
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Make Me by Lee Child (Who can resist Jack Reacher? )

Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton

City of the Lost (Casey Duncan #1) by Kelley Armstrong

Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton

He Counts There Tears by Mary Ann D'Alato

Legally Gone: A Novel by Sally Shanks

Troubles Keeper by Susan May

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy - I've read it ten times at least and still get something new out of it every time.

Billy Strobe by John Martel - the best legal thriller I've ever read.

Criminal Conversation by Evan Hunter - the ending haunted me after I finished it and sill haunts me today.

A Separate Peace
by John Knowles

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

You by Caroline Kepnes
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Dune by Frank Herbert

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Katherine by Anya Seton

subject to change on a whim, but at this moment my favourites are


The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

1)The Color Purple
2)The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
3)I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings

I’ve only recently become addicted to reading fiction crime/thrillers, the last few years it has been True Crime.
Top 3 so far...
1) Tami Hoag - A thin dark line
2) Jane harper- The Dry
3) Jeffery Deaver- The bodies left behind

I couldn’t put them down!!!

The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
The end of the affair- Graham Greene
Danny the Champion of the world- Roald Dahl

Top three?! Really?! Wow that is hard! Let me think....

1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

2) by Stephen King

3) by Graeme Rodaughan (this book starts off one of the best vampire urban fantasy series out there - that is my personal opinion. I have already re-read it three times in three years if that is any indication.)

So many people are listing some of my favorite books! I am so happy to see that. My top three can change daily, but The Scarlet Letter, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and 'Salem's Lot will always be among my top 10. There are just so, so many, though!

1. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
2. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood - bell hooks

Redeeming love by Francine Rivers
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
Ya Ya Sisterhood series by Neta Jackson

All these books I will read time and time again, esp Redeeming Love. I faithfully read this book at least once a year. I get something new out of it everytime I read it!!

This list can change anytime, but as of right now, in no particular order:

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George

by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Clearly mine can change, because I see I listed one differently in November!

So many, hard to bring down to top 3, top 5

Maybe top 50 ?

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

My top mystery book.Nothing else comes close in this genre.

The Stand by Stephen King

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - I have it in one book so I am allowed to claim all three right?

W wrote: "And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

My top mystery book.Nothing else comes close in this genre."

I own this book in it's original form with the racial name, it's second form with the not much better name, and two versions with this name. It's a fantastic read even when you know exactly what happened!

I think I've read it with all those titles too.

Redeeming love by Francine Rivers
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
The One by John Marrs
This list can go on and on by I would say these are my top reads

Christine wrote: "Redeeming love by Francine Rivers
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
The One by John Marrs
This list can go on and on by I would say these are my top reads"

I really enjoyed The One.