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Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,371 books — 2,847 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Best Spy Novels
1,267 books — 2,208 voters

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterHeist Society by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally CarterDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
602 books — 1,611 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAngels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson1984 by George OrwellThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Conspiracy Fiction
1,235 books — 1,359 voters

Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyThe Martian by Andy WeirDaemon by Daniel Suarez
Best Technothrillers Ever
668 books — 1,282 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Espionage
1,029 books — 1,074 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieGone Girl by Gillian FlynnTriptych by Karin SlaughterAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieBlindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Best Female Crime/Mystery/Thriller Writers
1,263 books — 748 voters
Storm Front by Jim ButcherThe Land by Aleron KongA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinMonster Hunter International by Larry CorreiaKilling Floor by Lee Child
Best violent action novels
341 books — 525 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHiroshima by John HerseyUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)
645 books — 448 voters
A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two by Michael G. KramerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiThe Boy From Block 66 by Limor RegevMagenta by John Payton Foden
Military Fiction
803 books — 370 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
425 books — 281 voters
Still Life by Louise PennyA Fatal Grace by Louise PennyThe Cruelest Month by Louise PennyDéjà Dead by Kathy ReichsBury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Mysteries/Suspense/Thrillers Set in Canada
289 books — 195 voters

Black Ice by Anne StuartCold As Ice by Anne StuartHard Kill by Charlie FlowersIce Blue by Anne StuartFire and Ice by Anne Stuart
Spy Romance
212 books — 182 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBeneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. SullivanCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinLilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
WW2: The Resistance - Fiction & Non-Fiction
268 books — 173 voters

Big Money by James HudsonThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le CarréBodyguard of Deception by Samuel MarquisMiami Spy Games by Armand RosamiliaEye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Spy Thrillers that stand apart from the rest!
190 books — 144 voters
Unthinkable Consequences by Bob RectorThe Saladin Strategy by Norm ClarkIt Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Tight Plot Novels
90 books — 124 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Crime, Detective and Mystery Fiction
186 books — 117 voters
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieEye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Historical Thrillers
194 books — 114 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanStasiland by Anna Funder
The Cold War (nonfiction)
347 books — 93 voters
Casino Royale by Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love by Ian FlemingMoonraker by Ian FlemingLive and Let Die by Ian FlemingOn Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
Best James Bond Books
94 books — 90 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
473 books — 81 voters
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterThey Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. MaclaganDagger by Steven dos SantosOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally CarterDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Young Adult Espionage
98 books — 80 voters

The Saladin Strategy by Norm ClarkThe Roca Group by J. Jaye GoldAgency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid MuhammadAhriman by Puja GuhaThe Adventures of Sarah Ann Lewis and the Memory Thieves by Joshua C. Carroll
Great Books About Spying
61 books — 70 voters
The Slush Pile Brigade by Samuel MarquisIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonFatherland by Robert HarrisDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Dysfunctional Sleuths
125 books — 62 voters

Night Shift by Charlaine HarrisThe Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. KingJourney to Munich by Jacqueline WinspearWhen Falcons Fall by C.S. HarrisPushing up Daisies by M.C. Beaton
2016 Mysteries
75 books — 60 voters
Hard Kill by Charlie FlowersThe Terminal Connection by Dan NeedlesThe Chimera Vector by Nathan M. FarrugiaGridlock by Alvin ZieglerNocturne, Opus 1 by Norene Moskalski
2013 Techno-Thrillers
32 books — 58 voters

The Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonIbil by Adeerus GhayanThe Last Sword Maker by Brian NelsonBeat by Jared GarrettThe Cobra Event by Richard Preston
Fiction: Bioterrorism/Biological Warfare
124 books — 58 voters
Red Sparrow by Jason MatthewsSlow Horses by Mick HerronPalace of Treason by Jason MatthewsThe Tourist by Olen SteinhauerDead Lions by Mick Herron
Best Post-Cold War Espionage/Spy Novels
48 books — 48 voters

Black Ice by Anne StuartOn Thin Ice by Anne StuartExtreme Measures by Elisabeth NaughtonIce Blue by Anne StuartCold As Ice by Anne Stuart
Contemporary Spy Romance
52 books — 40 voters
The Great War of Our Time by Michael MorellSpy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel Saneeb باسل صنيبGhost Wars by Steve CollThe Triple Agent by Joby WarrickThe Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti
The CIA and the War on Terror (nonfiction)
71 books — 24 voters

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