Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction (1810 books)

Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction

Just like the title says: best modern crime fiction. Agatha Christie's books not allowed--everyone already knows how awesome they are :)

Note: Please DO NOT ADD books from other genres! They will be instantly removed. This is a list for crime/mystery fiction.
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4.12 avg rating — 195,646 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 547,172 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 198,577 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 459,106 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 549,688 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 349 ratings
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4.49 avg rating — 17,400 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 31,486 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 97,227 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 247,248 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 258,983 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 802,078 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 257,935 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 215,547 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 67,707 ratings
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3.76 avg rating — 3,973 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 338,294 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 3,102,407 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 49,274 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 70,452 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 115,796 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 20,642 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 39,463 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 5,939 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 157,034 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 99,634 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 17,411 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 10,568 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 236,392 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 339,525 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 61,828 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 56,208 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 2,953,775 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 52,300 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 35,124 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 100,786 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 49,104 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 401,123 ratings
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3.95 avg rating — 754,195 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 58,968 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 56,789 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 56,734 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 39,355 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 11,892 ratings
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47

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3.76 avg rating — 74,910 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 303,991 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 10,572 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 10,077 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 8,376 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 5,794 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 3,201,576 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 9,157 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 43,477 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 11,958 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 22,904 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 162,222 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 150,376 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 83,850 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 52,515 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 47,750 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 18,297 ratings
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3.50 avg rating — 201 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 375,118 ratings
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4.23 avg rating — 4,022 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 2,357,416 ratings
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4.58 avg rating — 11,886 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 30,420 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 179,946 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 13,955 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 16,607 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 550,899 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 397,062 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 19,936 ratings
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4.45 avg rating — 255,796 ratings
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1,810 books · 1,563 voters · list created December 29th, 2009 by H (votes) .
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message 1: by Donna (last edited Mar 19, 2013 05:27PM) (new)

Donna Davis Are there more concrete parameters for "modern"? Are we voting on books that came out since 2000? 1990? Is the setting supposed to be present day, or is a crime/mystery novel written recently but set in the past admissible? In Cold Blood was written in the same era as Dame Agatha wrote.


message 2: by Greg (new)

Greg Donna wrote: "Are there more concrete parameters for "modern"? Are we voting on books that came out since 2000? 1990? Is the setting supposed to be present day, or is a crime/mystery novel written recently but s..."
Hi Donna, I have the same question as you. Yes, Christie was writing through the 70s as you note, and I'm not sure how we would delineate "modern" crime from "classic" crime, unless we go with 1975, which is the year Agatha Christie's "Curtain" was published posthumously.


message 3: by Donna (last edited Jul 03, 2018 11:06PM) (new)

Donna Davis What is wrong with people? Removed from the very first page, #98, because it's an Agatha Christie book. Christie fans, read the instructions and if you want to vote for Dame Agatha, go to one of the zillion other mystery lists.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

From #169, Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The system found and removed 1 duplicate.


message 4: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Am I the only one who feels that #147 Brave New World and #193 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not really a good fit for this category?


message 5: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis Vicki wrote: "Am I the only one who feels that #147 Brave New World and #193 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not really a good fit for this category?"

Certainly. I hadn't looked at this list and it's full of books that need to be yanked. Give me some time and I'll get to it. Meanwhile, the system found and removed 5 duplicates.


message 6: by Donna (last edited Jul 20, 2020 01:16AM) (new)

Donna Davis And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
In Cold Blood #16:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
It, #119:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
Jaws, #201
#142 Brave New World:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
#187 A Portrait of the Artist etc:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
The Bell Jar! What gets into people? Trolls much?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
#145 The Stand:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The system found and eliminated 1 duplicate.

Before you add a title, consider this: if I find any more books have been added that are obviously nonfiction, sci fi, treasured classics that are not mysteries, or horror, I will assign you detention.

I'm by no means done, but I'm done for tonight. If you see a title that needs to come down, please include the item#, or at least the page, where you found it.


message 7: by H (new)

H Donna wrote: "And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
In Cold Blo..."


Hey, I've just added a note in the description to emphasize no one add books from other genres. If you have any specific guidelines I could add, please share. I'll try to go through the list myself later.


message 8: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis H wrote: "Donna wrote: "And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1......"


Sure. But you have to know, there will be some of this silly business no matter what you say in the description. Some people will vote without even reading the description; for quite awhile I have held a gut hunch that listopia is often visited by those that have had too much wine or other mood-altering substances.


message 9: by Donna (last edited Jul 20, 2020 10:38PM) (new)

Donna Davis Picking up where I left off. Removed due to genre:

#94 Sometimes a Great Notion: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
#9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nesthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
#92 (I think) Ubik: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

As of this one shining moment, page 1 is clean. I'll be back. There is a lot of ugly in the world about which I can do nothing, but this list? I can fix this list.


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