Mystery Books
Mystery fiction is structured around a central puzzle -- usually a crime -- that the reader is invited to solve alongside the protagonist. From cozy village whodunits to hardboiled noir, the genre runs on clues, red herrings, and the satisfaction of a well-constructed reveal.
188 books
Dystopian
1Q84
Thriller
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Mystery
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Non-Fiction
A Scanner Darkly
Young Adult
A Study in Charlotte
Absolution by Murder
Mystery
Absolution by Murder
Thriller
All Is Not Forgotten
Mystery
All That Is Secret
Thriller
American Tabloid
Thriller
Among Thieves
Mystery
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Mystery
And Then There Were None
Thriller
Beautiful Ugly
Young Adult
Belladonna
Mystery
Bittersweet
Bluebeard's Castle
Mystery
Bluebeard's Castle
Thriller
Bright Young Women
Mystery
Broken Harbor
Horror
Carmilla
Contemporary Fiction
Case Histories
Non-Fiction
Centennial
Thriller
City on Fire
Mystery
Clockers
Science Fiction
Company Town
Non-Fiction
Count Zero
Thriller
Dare Me
Thriller
Dark Places
Mystery
Death Comes as Epiphany
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Mystery
Dissolution
Mystery
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Thriller
Does It Hurt
Thriller
Eileen
Mystery
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Romance
Fallen
Young Adult
Family of Liars
Horror
Final Girls
Thriller
Final Girls
Thriller
Firekeeper's Daughter
Thriller
First Lie Wins
Fantasy
Fledgling
Mystery
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Horror
Gerald's Game
Thriller
Gone Girl
Mystery
Gone for Good
Mystery
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Horror
Hidden Pictures
Mystery
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Mystery
I Am the Messenger
Mystery
I Have Some Questions for You
Thriller
If We Were Villains
Comedy
In Cold Blood
Mystery
In the Woods
Thriller
Killing Floor
Thriller
Labyrinth
Thriller
Lacy Eye
Thriller
Long Bright River
Crime
Magpie Murders
Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Thriller
Missing You
Thriller
Motherless Brooklyn
Mystery
Murder on the Orient Express
Romance
My Cousin Rachel
Literary Fiction
My Name Is Red
Thriller
Mystic River
Thriller
Never Lie
Horror
Night Film
Thriller
None of This Is True
Thriller
One Good Deed
Romance
One of Us Is Lying
Young Adult
One of Us Is Lying
Mystery
Over Sea, Under Stone
Young Adult
People Like Us
Thriller
Pines
Mystery
Pretty Little Liars
Mystery
Rebecca
Thriller
Reykjavik
Thriller
Run Away
Fantasy
Sharp Objects
Thriller
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Mystery
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Mystery
Still Life
Thriller
Survivor
Mystery
The Appeal
Mystery
The Bandit Queens
Thriller
The Black Echo
Thriller
The Blue Zones
Thriller
The Boy from the Woods
Mystery
The Cartographers
Non-Fiction
The Caves of Steel
Horror
The Chain
Thriller
The Chalet
The Cliffs
Literary Fiction
The Cliffs
The Club Dumas
Thriller
The Club Dumas
Thriller
The Codex
Thriller
The Couple Next Door
Mystery
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thriller
The Da Vinci Code
Thriller
The Dante Club
Mystery
The Decagon House Murders
Horror
The Devil and the Dark Water
Thriller
The Eight
Mystery
The Flanders Panel
Mystery
The Forgotten Garden
Mystery
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Mystery
The Frozen River
Thriller
The Girl on the Train
Thriller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Literary Fiction
The Glass Hotel
Mystery
The God of the Woods
Non-Fiction
The Gone World
Fantasy
The Hollow Places
Mystery
The House on Biscayne Bay
Fantasy
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Thriller
The Hunting Party
Young Adult
The Inheritance Games
Mystery
The Inheritance Games
Comedy
The Intuitionist
Thriller
The It Girl
Mystery
The Jack Reacher Novels
Horror
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Literary Fiction
The Last House on Needless Street
Mystery
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Thriller
The Last Templar
Thriller
The Last Thing He Told Me
Thriller
The Likeness
Mystery
The Maid
Thriller
The Maidens
Thriller
The Match
Thriller
The Memory of Animals
Thriller
The Midnight Feast
The Montalbano Series
Mystery
The Montalbano Series
Literary Fiction
The Name of the Rose
Young Adult
The Naturals
The New Couple in 5B
Thriller
The New Couple in 5B
Thriller
The New Girl
Thriller
The Omega Factor
Horror
The Overnight
Thriller
The Paris Apartment
Thriller
The Plot
Mystery
The Redbreast
Thriller
The Return of Ellie Black
Mystery
The Ritual
Horror
The Screaming Staircase
Thriller
The Secret Place
Mystery
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Literary Fiction
The Shadow of the Wind
Horror
The Silence
Horror
The Silence of the Lambs
Non-Fiction
The Sirens of Titan
The Spenser Series
Crime
The Spenser Series
Mystery
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Historical Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Thriller
The Stranger in the Mirror
Mystery
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club
Thriller
The Twyford Code
Thriller
The Vatican Secret
Literary Fiction
The Virgin Suicides
Literary Fiction
The Waterworks
Horror
The Whisper Man
Mystery
The White Tiger
Thriller
The Wolf of Sarajevo
Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10
Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10
Mystery
The Woman in White
Literary Fiction
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Thriller
There There
Young Adult
They Wish They Were Us
Mystery
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Mystery
Tiny Pretty Things
Young Adult
Truly Devious
Mystery
Truly Devious
Thriller
Turn of Mind
Young Adult
Two Can Keep a Secret
Thriller
Unsolved
Mystery
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Thriller
Watching You
Mystery
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Young Adult
We Were Liars
Horror
What Moves the Dead
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Young Adult
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Thriller
Where You End
Literary Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing
Mystery
Winter Counts
Thriller