The phrase "thrilling novel" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are discussing a book that is particularly exciting, or full of suspense. For example: "I just finished reading a thrilling novel about a woman caught up in a dangerous adventure."
He would rather read a good fancy advertisement than a thrilling novel any day.
Mary Shelley's hauntingly thrilling novel Frankenstein is a much loved classic horror - and is perceived to be the first sci-fi novel in history!
For me, it's a thrilling novel.
"The Da Vinci Code," with its tale of an age-old Catholic brotherhood willing to do anything to protect the secret about the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, may be a thrilling novel.
"A thrilling novel," Harper's Magazine said, adding, "The danger is electric and ever-threatening".
Jonathan Meades Atomised by Michel Houllebecq (Heinemann) is the most thrilling novel I've read in several years.
But accuracy isn't always artistry, and, while pangs of recognition can be thrilling — novels set in your Brooklyn neighborhood, a reference to a bottle of Sriracha in the fridge, scenes scored with your favorite indie band — it's intellectually disingenuous to allow that recognition to masquerade as some higher order of feeling.
Many of the school librarians have told me that it's a great experience for the kids because the book is about all sorts of varied experiences and it's influenced by my life, but it's also connected to the traditions of great world adventures, of art and other thrilling novels.
If you come home from work or school, watch a lot of TV, listen to music or read thrilling novels, then your mind can often be in overdrive, or worn out and these will not be the right times to meditate.
Our reviewer, Lee Siegel, found it a "thrilling, important novel," by turns "eloquent, crude, despairing and heartbrokenly hopeful".
That turned into The Catalyst, a thrilling, magical novel that was published to acclaim when she was just 15.
