What is a thriller?

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[@butterflycucumbers6279]

I think there are crime thrillers, spy-espionage thrillers and army war thrillers and they’re also often action and adventure categories as well. Then there is murder mysteries and suspense too. I particularly like The Da Vinci code as a thriller. But recently from the library I got Vincent Flynn and Clive Cusseler and Andy McNab. 😊

[@billfreeman5914]

When I think about thrillers something that immediately comes to mind is the duology by Daniel Suarez - Daemon & Freedom. They’re probably sub-classified as “techno-thrillers” and could also be considered sci-fi but they were real page-turners for me! 👍

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I used to love techno-thrillers, been a while since I read one so might check these out. Thanks!

[@RyanLisbon]

Red Dragon, a brilliant and gripping thriller which introduces Hannibal Lecter to the world. Hannibal is not the main villain but Red Dragon is even more mind blowing and jaw dropping than its iconic sequel, Silence of the Lambs.

[@BobbyHall-eu1xv]

Thriller is way too broad a term, we need subcategories! I have often found on book-tube that top 10/20/whatever number thriller book videos tend to favour a particular kind of Thriller depending on the creators taste - perhaps dominated by crime and mystery thrillers and so bereft of Action Adventure Thriller's with a 'tough-guy protagonist' like a Jack Reacher, Jason Bourne or John Rain. Thriller is probably the broadest category in terms of what could be considered a Thriller, Gone Girl, The Davinci Code and A Clean Kill In Tokyo are all very different books to one another.

[@JohnJohnson-ys6tp]

I used to be a fan of thrillers, but after a decade of reading them, I found them to be, to me, as unsatisfying as romances have mostly been to me. There is a pedestrian aspect, again speaking only for myself, common to both genres, where, after the author has considered you reeled in, begins to waste many pages about unromantic/non-thrilling navel gazing stuff. Plus all of the authors that I used to like peaked simultaneously, and the genre became a sort of lost civilisation to me, if that makes sense.

[@M-J]

Shocker, I know - I’m not a fan of thrillers. 😂😂 Nice explanation, but yeah - not for me.

[@mediumjohnsilver]

My favorite thriller is _7 Steps to Midnight_ (1993) by Richard Matheson. In it, a mathematician is driving home after 3 AM in a borrowed car, since his own car went missing, and picks up a hitch hiker who challenges him to try to separate what is real from what is unreal. And the story goes at breakneck speed from there.
I’ve read that book at least three times.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That's a great premise! I need to read more of Mathesons non-horror work

[@PokhrajRoy.]

People do use the term ‘Thriller’ very liberally. To me, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ also counts as a thriller.

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Good luck with what you choose to read, I hope you get some great stories. Currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo. Very good but I maybe some time!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That is a big one!

[@cjgaeilge4350]

u mentioned Le Carre, I've read Spy who came in, one of the best movies books ever, any thoughts?

[@krisprepolec5616]

I always think the sign of a good thriller is if it feels like being on a roller coaster. The girl with the dragon tattoo series was like that once you get past all the financial reporting stuff. I really liked State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny for that feeling.

[@marianamorais4608]

To me my favorite thrilllers are the ones Chris Carter writtes for instance I Am Death, one of my favourite . They are gripping as well as shoking.

[@sarahcountryman1776]

The Stillhouse Lake series! I cannot put those books down once I start!

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

Thirllers I love are; I love Dan Brown's DaVinci Code and Origin. The Eye of the Needle, The Bone Collector, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold😄

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I really need to reread Eye of the Needle!

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

@@CriminOllyBlog It's a wonderful book, the movie is great too😄

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

@@CriminOllyBlog It's a really good novel and the movie is great too!

[@wendyvilla2904]

🖤💚

[@dittekyhn1754]

Intensity by Koontz

[@tyler2610]

I consider Dean Koontz largely to be a thriller writer with elements of horror whose novels often are classified as horror