If your idea of a great book is a pulse-quickening, fast-moving suspense thriller, have I got a list for you!

The NPR audience voted their Top 100 'Killer Thrillers' of all time and what quality choices they are ~ a terrific mix of classics and popular authors. As you might expect, Stephen King was the most popular author with 6 titles in the top 100, followed by Lee Child with 4, and with 3 each, Michael Crichton, Dennis Lehane and the late Steig Larsson.

The Top 10 are:

1. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
4. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
7. The Shining by Stephen King
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. The Hunt tor Red October by Tom Clancy
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You can read the article, and see the entire list, here.