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Ranked lists, subgenre guides and the books readers are opening this week.

Best Mystery Lists

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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On the shelf this week

The books readers opened most in the last days. Every title links to Amazon.

Lists readers keep coming back to

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The series readers binge: pick one and see every book of it, from the first.

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Pick a subgenre

All 26 subgenres of the site, A to Z.

Read the full guide to the subgenres