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July 14, 2005

Must-Read Thrillers Book List

Looking for thrill a minute reading this summer? The International Thriller Writers has created a list of Must-Read Thrillers. The first thrillers were written in the early to mid 1800s. The genre has continued to be one of the most popular with readers and moviegoers as many of the books are the basis for movies. Get ready for an exciting, thrilling, seat of the pants read with these books.

1838
Edgar Allan Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery-even death.

1995
David Baldacci. Absolute Power
A burglar in the bedroom of a mansion has his work interrupted by the arrival of the mistress of the house with the president of the U.S. The couple have a fight and she is killed. The burglar flees, taking along a blood-stained letter opener as evidence, but is spotted by presidential bodyguards. The White House chief-of-staff, an ambitious woman, has him tracked and killed, but not before the burglar has told his story to a lawyer. The lawyer realizes he is next, but how to save oneself from the government?