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21+ Of Your Favorite Historical Thrillers

Kelly Jensen

Editor

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

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Spying and politics and danger and government/crime shenanigans are obviously not modern inventions, which means we’ve got a whole sub-genre of historical fiction to enjoy: the historical thriller. We asked you to share your favorite political thrillers and you answered. Here are 21 of your favorites. Note: many of these authors, like Silva, Baldacci, and Flynn, are big-time writers in this genre:   Absolute Power by David Baldacci The Alienist by Caleb Carr Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Ghost by Robert Harris The God’s Eye View by Barry Eisler HHhH by Laurent Binet His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor It’s About Time by Lyle Howard The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth Private Screening by Richard North Patterson The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk