A Quarter-Century Appraisal

ABC Radio National, Australia’s public service network, recently released the results of a poll asking listeners to choose Oz’s “Top 100 Books of the 21st Century” (not necessarily written by Australians). A variety of crime, mystery, and thriller works made the cut, among them Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, and—unsurprisingly—Jane Harper’s outback-set yarn The Dry.

Click here to see Radio National’s complete list.