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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Thrillers You Must Read!
4,721 books — 6,602 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,345 books — 1,886 voters

Murder on Family Grounds by Susan RowlandThose Empty Eyes by Charlie DonleaHidden Pictures by Jason RekulakDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbOn Her Watch by Melinda Leigh
Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers
2,100 books — 1,705 voters
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterHeist Society by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally CarterDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
624 books — 1,616 voters

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
I Like Serial Killers
1,016 books — 1,544 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingIt by Stephen KingPet Sematary by Stephen King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Scariest books of all time
639 books — 732 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieMurder on Family Grounds by Susan RowlandMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time
993 books — 719 voters
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn BarnesKiller Instinct by Jennifer Lynn BarnesThe Fixer by Jennifer Lynn BarnesOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManusA Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Young Adult Crime/Murder Mysteries
414 books — 640 voters

Cut & Run by Madeleine UrbanFatal Shadows by Josh LanyonSticks & Stones by Abigail RouxFish & Chips by Abigail RouxThe Dark Tide by Josh Lanyon
Best Novels with a Gay Romance and Crime Solving Plot/Subplot
789 books — 584 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyIt by Stephen KingDracula by Bram Stoker’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Best Monster Books!
575 books — 521 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Most Messed Up
847 books — 515 voters
Cut & Run by Madeleine UrbanZero at the Bone by Jane SevilleFair Game by Josh LanyonFatal Shadows / A Dangerous Thing by Josh LanyonAmong the Living by Jordan Castillo Price
Favorite Gay Thrillers
755 books — 423 voters

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
677 books — 396 voters
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
530 books — 377 voters

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisHannibal by Thomas HarrisRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Serial Killer Books
394 books — 355 voters
The Woman in Black by Susan HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
231 books — 348 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisRedeemed By Fire by C.J. BahrThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Books That You Should Read
673 books — 338 voters
THE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsGone Girl by Gillian FlynnSharp Objects by Gillian FlynnDark Places by Gillian Flynn
Psychological Thrillers/Mystery
290 books — 305 voters

THE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyThe Fairfax Fix by Dorothy May MercerDeadly Secrets by Angel SeferSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferRisky Pursuit by Nancy G. West
Mystery & Suspense
184 books — 248 voters
The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisThe Nameless Dead by Leta SerafimWitch in Disguise by Karen McSpadeShadows of Truth by Barry Finlay
Crime Fiction
523 books — 233 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Guest List by Lucy FoleyAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
52 Book Club 2024: #1 Locked-Room Mystery
190 books — 231 voters
Twist Me by Anna ZairesFear Me by B.B. ReidCaptive in the Dark by C.J. RobertsNotice by K. WebsterMonster in His Eyes by J.M. Darhower
Dark Obsession and Stalker Books
263 books — 228 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle Moran
Royal Fiction
525 books — 226 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsExhale Love by Donn PhillipsThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Favourite Psychological thrillers
276 books — 193 voters

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeAsylum by Madeleine RouxThe Diviners by Libba BrayBad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
146 books — 191 voters
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric IvesThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
87 books — 185 voters

What Angels Fear by C.S. HarrisSilent in the Grave by Deanna RaybournThe Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. KingThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Victorian and Regency Mystery Novels
274 books — 167 voters
COOPER by Elizabeth JacobsRock Chick Rescue by Kristen AshleyWild Man by Kristen AshleyRock Chick Redemption by Kristen AshleyUntil November by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Romantic Suspense-Climatic stories that have our hearts racing
333 books — 161 voters

Vicarious by Paula StokesA Study in Charlotte by Brittany CavallaroThe May Queen Murders by Sarah JudeThe Darkest Corners by Kara ThomasWink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
2016 YA Mysteries
59 books — 117 voters
Death on the Nile by Agatha ChristieMurder in Mesopotamia by Agatha ChristieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithAppointment with Death by Agatha ChristieCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Death in a Warm Climate
322 books — 106 voters

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