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Best Mysteries of the 21st Century
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Books with less than 25,000 ratings will be removed from this list. Books with more than 49,999 ratings will be moved to the next list.
For purposes of this list it doesn't matter if the book is a cozy mystery or a crime mystery or a historical mystery or a literary mystery or a general mystery. When in doubt, check the shelves for the book - if it is shelved more than a 100 times as mystery and you want to, put it on this list.
See also:
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Readers Picks
Best Mysteries of the 21st Century
Best Mysteries of the 20th Century
Popular Highly Rated Mystery
Best Mysteries by Subgenre
Best Cozy Mystery Series
Best Crime Mystery Books
Best Historical Mystery
Best Literary Mysteries
Best Thrillers
Edgar Awards:
Edgar Award Winners
Edgar Award Winners for Best First Novel
Edgar Award Winners for Fact Crime
Edgar Award Winners for Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Mysteries By Decade
1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020
Best Mysteries By Ratings
100,000 or more
50,000 to 99,999
25,000 to 49,999
10,000 to 24,999
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list created November 17th, 2014
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Sign of Four and Explosive Eighteen and The Black Dahlia and Possession graduated
Still Life and The Moonstone and Case Histories and The Poet and Grave Sight and Alias Grace and The Camel Club and Rules of Prey and Faithful Place and The Redbreast and The Snowman and The Turn of the Screw and The Man in the Brown Suit and Tripwire and The Crying of Lot 49 and The Boy Next Door graduated
The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Maisie Dobbs and The A.B.C. Murders and Child 44 and Night Film and The Distant Hours and Gone Tomorrow and The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Running Blind and The Hangman's Daughter and M is for Malice and Notorious Nineteen graduated
The Woods and Broken Harbour and When the Bough Breaks and Still Missing and Burial Rites and Bring Up the Bodies and Bad Luck and Trouble graduated
Graduated:Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Faceless Killers
The 19th Wife
The Secret of the Old Clock
Echo Burning
The Confession
If Tomorrow Comes
Foucault's Pendulum
The Luminaries
Crocodile on the Sandbank and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Gorky Park and Blindsighted graduated
Graduated: Plum Lovin'
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Caught
Trunk Music
The Reversal
Glory in Death
The Collector
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Alone
The Apprentice
Top Secret Twenty-One
Lock In
How the Light Gets In
Stalking Jack the Ripper
From Potter's Field
The City & the City
Removed for not having enough shelvings as "mystery":
The End of the Affair
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Graduated:The Hypnotist
Wicked Appetite
Bury Your Dead
The Murder on the Links
Truly Devious
Two Can Keep a Secret
The Broken Girls
The Big Bad Wolf
Sister
The Name of This Book Is Secret
Graduated:B is for Burglar
Five Little Pigs
The Magus
4:50 from Paddington
Gone for Good
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
J is for Judgment
A Trick of the Light
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Crooked House
Dissolution
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Graduated:Poirot Investigates
The Coffin Dancer
The Burning Room
Run Away
The Girl Who Lived
A Darkness More Than Night
Pretty Baby
My Name Is Red
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Secret Adversary
Graduated:The Gods of Guilt
Mary, Mary
The Narrows
The Girls in the Garden
The Long Way Home
The Kept Woman
Graduated:City of Bones
Home
The Nature of the Beast
The Heist
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Kingdom of the Blind
Graduated:The Millennium Trilogy
Hold Tight
Fatal Voyage
Nine Dragons
Stay Close
Plum Lucky
The Closers
Find Her
Cause of Death
Kisscut
The Perfect Stranger
The Colorado Kid
Criminal
Love You More
The Naturals
The Word is Murder
The Crossing Places
Turbo Twenty-Three
Cockroaches
Fallen
The Child
The House of Silk
10th Anniversary
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
The Sword Thief
When the Wind Blows
The Naturalist
Private
The Devotion of Suspect X
Four Blind Mice
Death in the Clouds
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
The 8th Confession
Mean Streak
The 9th Judgment
Double Cross
A Killer's Mind
Step on a Crack
The Sixth Man
Don't You Cry
Graduated:Redemption
The Trapped Girl
The Scarecrow
A Faint Cold Fear
Killer Instinct
Judge & Jury
The Short Drop
Dearly Devoted Dexter
Graduated:Follow You Home
London Bridges
Monday's Not Coming
The Violin Conspiracy
The Brothers Hawthorne
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
The Cloisters
The Mystery Guest
Graduated:Rapture in Death
Indelible
The Overlook
Hour Game
Moonflower Murders
Nothing More to Tell
Escaping from Houdini
All In
Graduated:Raven Black
The Moving Finger
Unseen
Hardcore Twenty-Four
A Curious Beginning
Confessions
Broken Homes
Graduated:Smilla's Sense of Snow
Look Alive Twenty-Five
Open Season
A Nearly Normal Family
The Valley of Fear
Spells for Forgetting
Graduated:A Great Deliverance
11th Hour
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Iron Lake
The Marlow Murder Club
Graduated:The Children of Men
Ice Cold
The Perfect Husband
When You Disappeared
When Will There Be Good News?
Every Last Fear
Graduated:A Pocket Full of Rye
The Holiday
Live Wire
Genuine Fraud
White Cat
A Calamity of Souls
The Sentence is Death
Phantom
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