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The list below is from the book The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2004), written by Daniel S. Burt. This list was originally published in 2004 and was added to this site over 10 years ago.
- The Lions of Lucerne
- Spymaster
- Use of Force
- Takedown
- Full Black
- Foreign Influence
- Backlash
After nearly 20 novels, Brad Thor’s sensational debut is still hard to beat, and remains among the best examples of post-9/11 military fiction. On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kid...
Thor’s 18th Scot Harvath book is one of his best, with Harvath moving into new territory that makes this an excellent starting point for new Thor fans. A rumor, a remote cabin in Norway, and an American intelligence operative charged with stopping the next world war before it begins – Scot Harvath’s mission is one of the deadliest he has ever under...
Thor’s 16th Scott Harvath book was published after Osama Bin Laden’s death, marking a major shift from post-9/11 fiction to a new threat posed by ISIS. The book follows the intrepid operative as he is called upon to stop an ISIS-led plot to destroy the Vatican. As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the...
In the years after 9/11, scores of political thrillers fantasized about what would happen if Islamic extremists carried out another major attack on American soil. Perhaps no book made more of this fear than Thor’s fifth Harvath thriller, Takedown. After years without a terrorist attack on American soil, one group has picked the 4th of July weekend ...
Given Hollywood’s passion for making movies about the movie industry, this one earns our vote for the most likely to be made into a massive blockbuster. “FULL BLACK” is a term used to describe the most sensitive – most deadly and secretive of black operations. In Thor’s brilliant 2011 novel, Thor describes what happens when one such mission goes ho...
Thor’s ninth book was a fictional reflection of a marked change in the way the United States fought terrorism in the decade after 9/11. Both covert ground missions and the highly controversial drone program were highly proactive enterprises, with few rules and no regrets. In Foreign Influence, buried within the black ops budgets of the Department o...
The cliffhanger ending in Brad Thor’s previous Scot Horvath entry, Spymaster, made Backlashone of the year’s most hotly anticipated books. The new novel, Thor’s 19th in the series, picks up where Spymaster leaves off. The book opens with a revelation of tragedy, as Harvath’s love interest and others are murdered in a supposed safe haven. More inter...
Nov 4, 2015 · With the newest book in the long running detective series published yesterday and the second season of the highly rated Amazon television show in the works, we decided to sit down and comb through the Bosch world and picked the top five Bosch stories.
Jul 9, 2022 · In this unofficial Summer of Crichton with fresh “Jurassic” and “Westworld” stories on the big and small screens, you might be inspired to do so. Here are my rankings of all the techno-thriller progenitor’s novels, from pulpy to prescient, whether writing under his own name or pseudonyms.
Dec 28, 2021 · That’s what I expected when I picked up “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which was voted the best book of the past 125 years by readers in a recent New York Times poll. Two decades had passed since...
I collected over 35 lists of the best books and best literature of all time and combined them into one meta-list. Here are the results: every book (or body of work) on at least three of the original source lists, organized by rank, that is, with the literary works on the most lists at the top.
Jul 21, 2024 · The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction,...
