Theseus and the Minotaur --
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey --
William Shakespeare's Macbeth --
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe --
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus --
James Fenimore Cooper's The last of the Mohicans --
Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket --
Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo --
Wilkie Collin's The woman in white --
Jules Verne's Mysterious island --
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's mines --
Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde --
Anthony Hope's The prisoner of Zenda --
H.G. Wells's The war of the world --
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The hound of the Baskervilles --
Joseph Conrad's The riddle of the sands --
Jack London's The sea wolf --
Baroness Emma Orczy's The scarlet pimpernel --
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the apes --
Marie Belloc Lowndes's The lodger --
John Buchan's The thrity-nine steps --
E. Phillips Oppenheim's The great impersonation --
Richard Connell's "The most dangerous game" --
W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden or The British agent --
P.G. Wodehouse's Summer lightning --
Edgar Wallace's King Kong --
Lester Dent's Doc Savage: The man of bronze --
James M. Cain's The postman always rings twice --
Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca --
Agatha Christie's And then there were none --
Eric Ambler's A coffine for Dimitrios --
Geoffrey Household's Rogue male --
Helen Macinnes's Above suspicion --
Cornell Woolrich's "Rear window" --
Kenneth Fearing's The big clock --
Graham Greene's The third man --
Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train --
Mickey Spillane's One lonely night --
Jim Thompson's The killer inside me --
Ernest K. Gann's The high and the mighty --
Jack Finney's Invasion of the body snatchers --
Hammond Innes's The wreck of the Mary Deare --
Ian Fleming's From Russia, with love --
Alistair MacLean's The guns of Navarone --
Richard Condon's The Manchurian candidate --
Len Deighton's The IPCRESS file --
Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey's Seven days in May --
Lionel Davidson's The rose of Tibet --
Richard Starck's (Donald E. Westlakes's) The hunter aka Point blank --
John le Carre's The spy who came in from the cold --
Wilbur Smith's When the lion feeds --
Evelyn Anthony's The rendezvous --
Michael Crichton's The Andromeda strain --
James Dickey's Deliverance --
Frederick Forsyth's The day of the jackal --
Brian Garfield's Death wish --
David Morrell's First blood --
Trevanian's The eiger sanction --
Charles McCarry's The tears of autumn --
William Goldman's Marathon man --
James Grady's Six days of the condor --
Jack Higgin's The eagle has landed --
Joseph Wambaugh's The choirboys --
Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic! --
Ira Levin's The boys from Brazil --
Ken Follett's Eye of the needle --
Ross Thomas's Chinaman's chance --
John D. MacDonald's The green ripper --
Justin Scott's The shipkiller --
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne identity --
Eric VanLustbader's The ninja --
THomas Harris's Red dragon --
Jack Ketchum's Off season --
Thomas Perry's The butcher's boy --
Tom Clancy's The hunt for Red October --
F. Paul Wilson's The tomb --
Nelson Demille's The charm school --
Dean Koontz's Watchers --
Katherine Neville's The eight --
John Grisham's The firm --
R.L. Stine's Silent night --
James Patterson's Along came a spider --
Stephen Hunter's Point of impact --
John Lescroart's The 13th juror --
Sandra Brown's The witness --
David Baldacci's Absolute power --
Gayle Lynd's Masquerade --
Lee Child's Killing floor --
Jeffrey Deaver's The bone collector --
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code.
