Thriller Books
Thrillers move at speed, structuring their narratives around mounting tension, ticking clocks, and characters under pressure. The best entries in this genre make you check the locks on your doors and question every stranger on the train.
264 books

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11/22/63

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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A Head Full of Ghosts

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All Is Not Forgotten

Crime
All the Sinners Bleed

Science Fiction
Altered Carbon

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American Assassin

Horror
American Psycho

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American Tabloid

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Among Thieves

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An Anonymous Girl

Literary Fiction
An Untamed State

Philosophy
Anathem

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Angels & Demons

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Apples Never Fall

Non-Fiction
Armada

Non-Fiction
Artemis

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Beautiful Ugly

Romance
Beautiful Venom

Romance
Beautifully Cruel

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Before I Go to Sleep

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Behind Closed Doors

Young Adult
Belladonna

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Big Little Lies

Horror
Bird Box

Mystery
Bittersweet

Romance
Black Sheep

Romance
Bound by Honor

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Bright Young Women

Romance
Butcher & Blackbird

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By a Thread

Crime
City in Ruins

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City on Fire

Non-Fiction
Code Name Verity

Literary Fiction
Creation Lake

Young Adult
Dangerous Girls

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Dare Me

Science Fiction
Dark Matter

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Dark Places

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Demons

Horror
Devolution

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Does It Hurt

Horror
Dolores Claiborne

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Don't Let Go

Horror
Dracula

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Eileen

Mystery
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You

Romance
Fallen

Horror
FantasticLand

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Fever Dream

Horror
Final Girls

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Final Girls

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Firekeeper's Daughter

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First Lie Wins

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Five Decembers

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Five Survive

Young Adult
Genuine Fraud

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Girl A

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Gone Girl

Young Adult
Haunting Adeline

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Headhunters

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Heat 2

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Her Every Fear

Horror
Hidden Pictures

Horror
Holly

Horror
Home Before Dark

Horror
House of Leaves

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House of Spies

Mystery
How to Solve Your Own Murder

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I Am Pilgrim

Young Adult
I Hunt Killers

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If We Were Villains

Literary Fiction
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Literary Fiction
In a Dark, Dark Wood

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Jar City

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Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle

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Killing Floor

Young Adult
Killing November

Crime
King of Ashes

Romance
King of Wrath

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Labyrinth

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Lacy Eye

Romance
Leather & Lark

Literary Fiction
Leave the World Behind

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Leaving Berlin

Romance
Lights Out

Romance
Lights Out

Romance
Lights Out

Young Adult
Little Monsters

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Lock Every Door

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Long Bright River

Young Adult
Looking for Smoke

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Low Town

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Miracle Creek

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Missing You

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Monster

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Motherless Brooklyn

Horror
My Best Friend's Exorcism

Romance
My Cousin Rachel

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Mystic River

Horror
Needful Things

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Never Lie

Horror
Night Film

Young Adult
None Shall Sleep

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None of This Is True

Romance
Northanger Abbey

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Odd Thomas
Once You're Mine
Romance
Once You're Mine

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One Good Deed

Romance
One of Us Is Lying

Young Adult
One of Us Is Lying

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Orphan X

Young Adult
People Like Us

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Pines

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Point of Impact

Crime
Prayers for the Stolen

Mystery
Pretty Little Liars

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Quicksilver

Non-Fiction
Reamde

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Recursion

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Reykjavik

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Rock Paper Scissors

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Rock Paper Scissors

Horror
Roses

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Run Away

Romance
Run Posy Run

Romance
Run Posy Run

Romance
Scythe & Sparrow

Fantasy
Sharp Objects

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Shiver

Literary Fiction
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sinners Retreat
Romance
Sinners Retreat

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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Sometimes I Lie
Splinters
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Splinters

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Survivor

Fantasy
Swan Song

Romance
The 5th Wave

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The Anomaly

Mystery
The Appeal

Mystery
The Bandit Queens

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The Black Echo

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The Blue Zones

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The Bourne Identity

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The Boy from the Woods

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The Boy in the Suitcase

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The Cabin at the End of the World

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The Cartel

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The Chalet

Young Adult
The Cheerleaders

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The Chestnut Man
The Club Dumas
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The Club Dumas

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The Codex

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The Couple Next Door

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The Da Vinci Code

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The Dante Club

Mystery
The Decagon House Murders

Horror
The Devil and the Dark Water

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The Eight

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The Firm

Literary Fiction
The Girl Before

Horror
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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The Girl on the Train

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The Girl with All the Gifts

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Mystery
The God of the Woods

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The Good Girl

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The Gray Man

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The Gray Man

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The Guest List

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The Heron

Fantasy
The Hollow Places

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The House Across the Lake

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The Housemaid

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The Hunting Party

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The Huntress

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The Identicals

Mystery
The Inheritance Games

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The Institute

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The It Girl

Crime
The Killer Inside Me

Horror
The Last Days of Jack Sparks

Literary Fiction
The Last House on Needless Street

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The Last Kingdom

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The Last Mrs Parrish

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The Last Mrs. Parrish

Mystery
The Last Murder at the End of the World

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The Last Templar

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The Last Thing He Told Me

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The Last Time I Lied

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The Likeness

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The Lions of Lucerne

Horror
The Long Run

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The Lover

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The Lying Game

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The Maidens

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The Match

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The Memory of Animals

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The Midnight Feast

Young Adult
The Naturals

Fantasy
The Need
The New Couple in 5B
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The New Couple in 5B

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The New Girl

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The Omega Factor

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The Only One Left

Literary Fiction
The Other Black Girl

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The Paris Apartment

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The Plot

Crime
The Power of the Dog

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The Push
The Queen of the South
Crime
The Queen of the South

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The Return of Ellie Black

Romance
The Risk

Horror
The Ruin

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The Sea of Monsters

Literary Fiction
The Secret History

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The Secret Place

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The Secrets We Kept

Horror
The Silence

Horror
The Silence of the Lambs

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The Silent Patient

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The Snowman

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The Stranger in the Mirror

Romance
The Sweetest Oblivion

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The Terminal List

Horror
The Troop

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The Turn of the Key

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The Twyford Code

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The Vatican Secret

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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Science Fiction
The Water Knife

Horror
The Whisper Man

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The Wife Between Us

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The Wife Upstairs

Young Adult
The Wilde Trials

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The Wolf of Sarajevo

Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10

Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10

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The Woman in the Window

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There There

Young Adult
They Wish They Were Us

Mystery
Tiny Pretty Things

Romance
Tormentor Mine

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Transfer of Power

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Turn of Mind

Young Adult
Two Can Keep a Secret

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Under the Skin

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Unsolved

Mystery
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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Verity

Science Fiction
Version Control

Romance
Vicious

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Watch Over Me

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Watchers

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Watching You

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Where You End

Mystery
Winter Counts

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Winter in Madrid

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World Without End

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Wrong Place Wrong Time

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Zero Day

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