Fiction, thrillers, general Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

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Fiction, thrillers, general

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Mr. Mercedes

Ingah Mikhaʼeli, Stephen King, Stephen king

2014 ★ 4.1

The Calcutta chromosome

Amitav Ghosh

1995

Darwin's radio

Greg Bear

1999 ★ 3.6

Storm Island

Ken Follett

1978 ★ 4.0

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

2009 ★ 4.0

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

1885 ★ 4.2

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

1920 ★ 4.0

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

1891 ★ 4.2

Cross Justice

James Patterson

2015 ★ 3.8

Havana Storm

Ignacio Gómez Calvo, Dirk Cussler, Clive Cussler

2014 ★ 4.0

The golden Buddha

Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler

2003 ★ 4.3

My Brother Michael

Mary Stewart

1960 ★ 4.4

Slow Horses

Mick Herron

2010 ★ 4.5

Thunderball

Ian Fleming

1961 ★ 3.7

Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy

1989 ★ 4.0

Rogue Male

Geoffrey Household

1939 ★ 4.0

Don't Let Go

Harlan Coben

2019 ★ 3.3

The Alienist

Caleb Carr

1994 ★ 3.7

The forgotten

David Baldacci

2012 ★ 3.7

Watchman (Crime Club)

Ian Rankin

2003 ★ 4.0

You don't want to know

Lisa Jackson, Christina Traister

2012 ★ 4.0

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

2003 ★ 3.8

The Girl in the Spider's Web

David Lagercrantz

2015 ★ 3.3

Jaws

Peter Benchley

1973 ★ 4.4

Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown #1)

Josh Bazell

2009 ★ 3.8

No Time for Goodbye

Linwood Barclay

2007 ★ 4.6

No second chance

Harlan Coben

2003 ★ 3.0

The gold coast

Nelson DeMille

1990 ★ 4.0

Stolen prey

John Sandford

2012 ★ 4.3

Halting State

Charles Stross

2007 ★ 3.5

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