One of the most exciting genres of art works is considered to be a thriller. Good books of this genre affiliation can cause the reader to have a disturbing sense of anxiety and a whole palette of conflicting emotions.
presents the best books for thrillers - top 10.
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The Island of the Damned Dennis Lihain
The thriller book "The Island of the Damned" by Dennis Lihein opens the top ten works of this genre. Events in the novel unfold in a clinic for the insane, in which the patient disappears. This incident seems very strange and the federal authorities decide to send their employees to the hospital. Two federal agents are sent directly to the island, where a mystical medical institution is located. That's where the investigation begins, which is becoming more and more strange, acquiring a mystical character. ..
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Butterfly Effect James Svallow
James Svallow with his book "Butterfly Effect" won ninth place in the top ten of the genre thriller. The main character, the boy Evan, took from his father-psychopath, now locked in a house for the insane, a strange disease - he does not remember some episodes of his life, and at these moments, strange and even horrible events occurred. By enlisting and enrolling in college, Evan makes an amazing discovery. Reading diaries, which he wrote in childhood on the advice of a doctor, Evan can return to childhood and change his future by his actions.
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Fight Club Chuck Palanik
"Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk is ranked eighth in the top of the best thriller books. Exhausted by insomnia because of the cynical nature of his work, a consultant on insurance payments, an unnamed narrator visits psychological support groups in the evenings for terminally ill patients. There he meets a strange girl, Marla Singer, who is trying to get rid of the fear of death by watching the dying. Between the visits of the support group the narrator gets acquainted with Taylor Derden. Together they become the founders of a fight club, whose activities are gradually becoming extremist.
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Hannibal Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris Artwork Hannibal is on the list of the best thriller books. Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a legendary cannibal killer. It's been seven years since he was at large. Clarice Starling, a special agent of the FBI for a year cherishes the dream of arresting him. But there are those who dream of bloody revenge to Dr. Lecter. And their sophisticated plans are far from justice. ..
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Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
Dan Brown Book "Da Vinci Code" has become an international bestseller: it is translated into 44 languages and published in a total circulation of more than 81 million copies."The Da Vinci Code" tops the list of bestsellers of the New York Times magazine, many consider the novel the best book of the decade. The novel, written in the genre of an intellectual detective thriller, could arouse a wide interest in the legend of the Holy Grail and the place of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity.
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Hunger Games Susan Collins
Book of Susan Collins "Hunger Games" is ranked fifth in the list of the best books of the genre thriller. The main characters of the work are a guy and a girl who are familiar from childhood and can still love each other, but they will have to become enemies. .. By lot they must participate in the terrible "Hunger Games", where only one survives - the strongest. While in the brutal quest there are at least some participants, Katniss and Pete can protect each other and fight together. But sooner or later, one of them will have to sacrifice his life for the sake of his beloved. .. This is the law of the "Hunger Games", which has never been violated!
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Shine Stephen King
Roman Stephen King "Shine" takes the fourth place in the ranking of the best thriller books. In the rocky mountains of Colorado is a luxurious, though abandoned, temporarily not working hotel. In the autumn and winter, the hotel is visited by caretaker Jack Torrance with his wife and young son Danny. The hotel's bad reputation, its sinister past, rumors of ghosts inhabiting the house - all this rather tempts Jack than repels. In the past, Jack is an anonymous alcoholic, prone to violence and violence, but this is in the past. .. For some time life in the hotel is calm, nothing and no one disturbs the young family. But then, due to heavy snowfall, the hotel is cut off from the main world, but this is not the worst thing that can happen. ..
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Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris with his book "Silence of the Lambs" unveils the top three genre thriller works. In 1989, the novel was awarded the prestigious literary prize named Anthony Boucher( Anthony Awards).In the American province there are murders of girls, committed with particular cruelty. All crimes have the same handwriting, so there is no doubt that the serial FBI manages the FBI and the police. But all attempts to catch him do not give a positive result. And then the authorities take a very dangerous action, the FBI seeks help in the investigation of the crime to the psychoanalyst Hannibal Lecter, who is sentenced to life for brutal murders and cannibalism. To fulfill this mission, a young FBI agent, Clarissa Starling, is sent to prison. ..
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Girl with a dragon tattoo Stig Larson
"Girl with a dragon tattoo" Stiga Larsona takes second place in the ranking of the best thriller books. The novel was awarded the Glass Key Award in 2006, the Boeke Prize in 2008, the Galaxy British Book Awards in 2009 and the Anthony Award. Posthumous Larsson received the award of the English channel ITV3 Crime Thriller Award. Forty years the mystery of the disappearance of a young relative does not give rest to an aging industrial tycoon, and now he is making the last attempt in his life - commissioning a search for journalist Mikael Blomkvist. He takes on a hopeless business more to get distracted from his own troubles, but soon realizes: the problem is even more complicated than it seems at first glance. ..
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Green Mile Stephen King
Book by Stephen King The Green Mile tops the list of the best works of artgenre thriller. Stephen King invites readers to the eerie world of the prison suicide bomber, from where they leave, so as not to return, opens the door to the last refuge of those who have transgressed not only the human, but God's law. In the prison "Cold Mountain", the suicide bomber is called the Green Miley. They saw different prisoners there, but one day John Milton was brought to John Coffey - a huge Negro who allegedly committed a terrible crime - brutally killed two little girls. And Paul Edgcombe and the other staff member of the bloc are to learn that not everything is as it seems. Sometimes someone who is behind bars can be better than the one who is outside. And death can be a welcome deliverance from the heavy burden of life.