NPR has published a list of the top 100 "Killer Thrillers." The NPR audience nominated about 600 novels to the poll and cast over 17,000 ballots. Stephen King has six titles in the top 100 list. Below is the top ten. You can see the complete list here.
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Shining by Stephen King
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Hunt tor Red October by Tom Clancy
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle