Thriller Novels /Thriller-Novels.html All about thriller novels - the genre and sub genres, my favourites, video trailers and the like. What are thriller novels? Wikipaedia includes 10 sub-categories (though I prefer the term sub-genre), and I think that the definition they use, as of today, is too specific. thriller novel thriller drama thriller espionage thriller poltical thriller action thriller thriller novels what are they so what is a thriller novel as of today in 2011 wikipaedia says that thriller novels are a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them and it further qualifies that, too the entry is disappointing, as it doesn t properly address sub-genres also, i find the statement essentially ordinary heroes to be completely meaningless after all, the word hero means that he is not ordinary and so too for heroines, of course villains too need not be present in a thriller think about a thriller involving a natural disaster - one could hardy paint mother nature as a villain to me, a thriller novel is, simply, a novel which provides the reader with thrills i write more about this in the first entry, anatomy of the thriller novel and in where did they come from i ve used several categories or sub-genres, as i see them subpage_bullet_links_with_descriptions