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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!
5,029 books — 7,063 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
1,400 books — 2,034 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
2,164 books — 1,890 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
636 books — 1,627 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
1,023 books — 1,553 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
1,021 books — 763 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
640 books — 735 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
425 books — 648 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
799 books — 594 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
866 books — 526 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!
574 books — 521 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
768 books — 433 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
704 books — 430 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
533 books — 387 voters

Reprisal Road by Lynn-Steven JohansonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Books That You Should Read
683 books — 377 voters
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisHannibal by Thomas HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Serial Killer Books
403 books — 363 voters

The Woman in Black by Susan HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
245 books — 361 voters
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsGone Girl by Gillian FlynnSharp Objects by Gillian FlynnTHE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyDark Places by Gillian Flynn
Psychological Thrillers/Mystery
307 books — 328 voters

Pretty Girl-13 by Liz ColeyThe Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisShadows of Truth by Barry FinlayThe Nameless Dead by Leta Serafim
Crime Fiction
539 books — 267 voters
The Fairfax Fix by Dorothy May MercerDeadly Secrets by Angel SeferSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferTHE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyDeadly Thyme by R.L. Nolen
Mystery & Suspense
199 books — 253 voters

Twist Me by Anna ZairesFear Me by B.B. ReidCaptive in the Dark by C.J. RobertsMonster in His Eyes by J.M. DarhowerNotice by K. Webster
Dark Obsession and Stalker Books
269 books — 238 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
539 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
191 books — 233 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
280 books — 205 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
173 books — 193 voters
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric IvesThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
88 books — 189 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
338 books — 176 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
275 books — 169 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
56 books — 116 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
327 books — 110 voters

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