Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
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Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 5, 202651 min
  • Arts & culture

What are the best thrillers published since 2000? That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and bookstagrammers. We counted up all those votes and came up with a list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century, available here. In this episode, the host Gilbert Cruz is joined by Tina Jordan, the editor of the Book Review, and Sarah Lyall, a longtime co...

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I'm Wesley Morris. I'm a critic for the New York Times. And I'm the host of a podcast called Cannonball. We're going to talk about that song you can't get out of your head.

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That TV show you watched and can't stop thinking about. And the movie that you saw when you were a kid that made you who you are, whether you like it or not. I was so embarrassed the whole time because it's a bad film. Yeah.

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And I still love it. You can find Cannonball on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. to read a book that's going to send your blood pressure racing or where bad things are looming and there's a sense of tension.

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