Library Journal Best Books - Crime Fiction: Thriller (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2025

The Oligarch's Daughter
(*)
Joseph Finder

Famous Last Words
(*)
Gillian McAllister

This Book Will Bury Me
(*)
Ashley Winstead

The Devil's Kitchen
(*)
Mark Thielman

Cold Burn
(*)
Jon Land

South of Nowhere
(*)
Jeffery Deaver

The Havana Syndrome
(*)
Jeffrey James Higgins

King of Ashes
(*)
S.A. Cosby

The Medusa Protocol
(*)
Rob Hart

The White Crow
(*)
Michael Robotham

Mean Moms
(*)
Emma Rosenblum

Stillwater
(*)
Tanya Scott

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

The Belles
(*)
Lacey N. Dunham

The Break-In
(*)
Katherine Faulkner

Nobody Knows You're Here
(*)
Bryn Greenwood

The Vanishing Place
(*)
Zoe Rankin

Final Orbit
(*)
Chris Hadfield

The Hitchhikers
(*)
Chevy Stevens

Home Before Dark
(*)
Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir

Wild Instinct
(*)
T. Jefferson Parker

Everybody Wants to Rule the World
(*)
Ace Atkins

Huguette
(*)
Cara Black

Award Categories

Christian Fiction

Contemporary Romance

Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction: Mystery

Crime Fiction: Suspense

Crime Fiction: Thriller

Fantasy

Graphic Novels

Historical Fiction

Historical Romance

Horror

LGBTQIA+ Romance

Literary Fiction

Paranormal Romance

Pop Fiction

Romance

Romantasy

Science Fiction

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018