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"Best" Mysteries by Year

• The Best Crime Novels of the Year, 2019 - Selected by Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times
• The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of the Year, 2019 - Selected by The Washington Post
• The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2019 - Selected by Kirkus Reviews
• The Best Crime and Thrillers of 2019 - Selected by The Guardian
• The Best Crime Fiction of 2019 - Selected by Vicki Briner, Liz French, & Lesa Holstine for Library Journal
• The Best Mystery Books of 2019 - Selected by Publisher's Weekly
• The Top 12 Mystery Novels of 2019 - Selected by The Strand magazine.
• The Best Mystery and Thriller Books of 2019 - As voted upon by the readers at GoodReads.
• The Year's Best Crime Novels, 2019 - Selected by Bill Ott for Booklist, May, 2019

• The Best Crime and Thrillers of 2018 - Selected by Laura Wilson of The Guardian
• The Best Crime Fiction of 2018 - Selected by Marilyn Stasio for The New York Times
• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018 - Selected by The Kirkus Reviews.
• NPR's List of Best Mysteries/Thrillers of 2018
• The 10 Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018 - This list is selected by The Washington Post
• The Top Twenty Novels of 2018 - Many mysteries in this list by The Strand Magazine
• Best Mystery/Thriller Novels of 2018 - Selected by Publishers Weekly.
• The Best Crime Fiction of 2018 - Selected by The Irish Times
• The Best Mystery and Thriller Books of 2018 - Voted upon by the readers at GoodReads.
• The Year's Best Crime Novels 2018 - Selected by Bill Ott for Booklist, May, 2018

• The Best Crime Novels of 2017 - Selected by Marilyn Stasio of the New York Times
• The Best Crime Books and Thrillers of 2017 - Selected by Mark Lawson of The Guardian.
• The Best 10 Thriller and Mysteries of 2017 - Selected by Simone Massoni of The Washington Post.
• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017 - Selected by The Kirkus Reviews.
• The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017 - From the Huffington Post.
• The Top 12 Mystery Novels of 2017 - Selected by The Strand Magazine.
• The Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2017 - The Good Reads Choice Award.
• The Best Crime Novels of 2017 - Selected by Bill Ott for Booklist. May 1, 2017

• The Best Crime Novels of 2016 - From The New York Times
• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2016 - from The Kirkus Reviews
• Best Mystery Books and Thrillers of 2016 - From The Washington Post.
• The Best Mysteries of 2016 - From The Wall Street Journal.
• Best Crime and Thriller Novels of 2016 - From The Telegraph
• The Best Crime and Thriller Books of 2016 - From The Guardian
• Best Mystery and Thriller Books - Selected by the readers of Good Reads.
• Best Summer Mysteries 2016 - From Publisher's Weekly
• The Year's Best Crime Novels 2016 - Selected by Bill Ott, Booklist, May, 2016.

• Best Crime and Thriller Books of 2015 - from The Guardian
• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2015 - From Kirkus Reviews
• The Best Crime Fiction Books for 2015 - From The Telegraph
• The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2015 - From The Washington Post
• Best Mystery Novels of 2015 - From Publisher's Weekly
• Best Mystery and Thriller Books 2015 - Voted for by the members of the web site Good Reads.
• Best Mystery and Thriller Novels - From The Wall Street Journal.
• NPR's Best Mysteries of 2015
• The Year's Best Crime Novels - Selected by Bill Ott in Booklist, May, 2015.
• The 101 Best Crime Novels of the Past Decade - Booklist has compiled a list of all their best crime novels from 2006 to 2015. If you have a lot of time to read, you will find this list quite useful. May, 2015.

• The Best Crime and Thrillers of 2014 - From The Guardian
• Best Mystery Novels 2014 - Selected by Publisher's Weekly.
• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2014 - Selected by Kirkus Reviews.
• The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2014 - Selected by NPR
• The Best Mysteries of 2014 - by The Wall Street Journal. You will need to scroll down the page to find them.
• Best Mystery and Thrillers of 2014 - as voted upon by the members of Good Reads.

2013

• Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2013 - From Kirkus Reviews.
• NPR's Best Books Concierge - Find the category of books from the menu on the left. Note that you can combine categories which will allow you to chose long mysteries or historical mysteries.
• The Best Crime and Thrillers of 2013 - From the Guardian
• Best Summer Mysteries - From Publisher's Weekly.
• Best Mysteries of the Year as Voted by Amazon editors. - Nov. 7, 2013.

• Best Mysteries of 2012 - This list is from Kirkus Reviews.
• The Best Crime Novels of 2012 - This list is by Hallie Ephron of the Boston Globe
• The Best Crime Books of 2012 - From The Guardian
• Best Mysteries of 2012 - This list is from Publisher's Weekly
• The Case Books of 2012 - The best mysteries of the year from The Wall Street Journal.

• Notable Crime Books of 2011 - by Marilyn Stasio, mystery reviewer for the New York Times.
• The Year's Best Crime Novels: 2011 - by Bill Ott for Booklist Online.
• Best Mysteries, 2011 - This list is from the Kirkus Reviews.

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