Thrillers Reimagined: The NYT’s 50 Must-Read Novels of the Century

The New York Times gathered input from librarians, booksellers, editors, bookstagrammers, and crime writers to compile a 50-book list of the best thrillers published since 2000. The collection spans countries and eras, highlighting titles that became cultural moments alongside bestsellers, with Book Riot citing favorites such as Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), Bluebird, Bluebird (Attica Locke), All the Sinners Bleed (S.A. Cosby), The God of the Woods (Liz Moore), In the Woods (Tana French), My Sister, the Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite), and The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen). The piece also mentions a reader poll for the NYT list and affiliates disclosure on linked content.