Curated category · 2006—2025

Best mystery & crime

Award-winning and editorially recommended mystery & crime across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections: 386
Authors: 306
Lists & prizes: 2

Showing 97–144 of 386

2023Mystery & crime

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

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2023Mystery & crime

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

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2023Mystery & crime

Brooklyn Crime Novel

Jonathan Lethem

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2023Mystery & crime

Brutes

Dizz Tate

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2023Mystery & crime

Crook Manifesto

Colson Whitehead

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2023Mystery & crime

Edith Holler

Edward Carey

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2023Mystery & crime

Holly

Stephen King

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2023Mystery & crime

House of Cotton

Monica Brashears

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2023Mystery & crime

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

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2023Mystery & crime

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

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2023Mystery & crime

Kala

Colin Walsh

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2023Mystery & crime

My Murder

Katie Williams

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2023Mystery & crime

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

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2023Mystery & crime

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

Edgar Award for Best Novel

2023Mystery & crime

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

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2023Mystery & crime

Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

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2023Mystery & crime

Prom Mom: A Thriller

Laura Lippman

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2023Mystery & crime

Sing Her Down

Ivy Pochoda

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2023Mystery & crime

Small Mercies: A Detective Mystery

Dennis Lehane

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2023Mystery & crime

Stolen

Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles

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2023Mystery & crime

Symphony of Secrets

Brendan Slocumb

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2023Mystery & crime

The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

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2023Mystery & crime

The Cuban Heiress

Chanel Cleeton

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2023Mystery & crime

The Enchanters

James Ellroy

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2023Mystery & crime

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

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2023Mystery & crime

The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

Richard Osman

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2023Mystery & crime

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

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2023Mystery & crime

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

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2023Mystery & crime

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

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2023Mystery & crime

The Stolen Coast

Dwyer Murphy

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2023Mystery & crime

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

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2023Mystery & crime

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto

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2022Mystery & crime

Anywhere You Run: A Novel

Wanda M. Morris

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2022Mystery & crime

Are You Sara? A Novel

S.C. Lalli

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2022Mystery & crime

Black Cake: A Novel

Charmaine Wilkerson

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2022Mystery & crime

Cruz: A Novel

Nicolás Ferraro, translated by Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn

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2022Mystery & crime

Dr. No: A Novel

Percival Everett

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2022Mystery & crime

Even Though I Knew the End

C.L. Polk

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2022Mystery & crime

Five Decembers

James Kestrel

Edgar Award for Best Novel

2022Mystery & crime

House of Hunger: A Novel

Alexis Henderson

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2022Mystery & crime

Just Like Home

Sarah Gailey

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2022Mystery & crime

Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn

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2022Mystery & crime

Lute

Jennifer Thorne

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2022Mystery & crime

Monarch: A Novel

Candice Wuehle

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2022Mystery & crime

Mouth to Mouth: A Novel

Antoine Wilson

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2022Mystery & crime

My Annihilation: A Novel

Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Sam Bett

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2022Mystery & crime

Reputation: A Novel

Sarah Vaughan

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2022Mystery & crime

Secret Identity: A Novel

Alex Segura

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