The NY Times asked hundreds of writers, editors, booksellers and librarians for their favourite thrillers, compiling the results into the “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century”. Top of the list is Gillian Flynn’s “tour de force” Gone Girl, while others include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men; Emma Donoghue’s Room; We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver; and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.