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Best Psychological Suspense

Rank Title Author Added

1

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,059 members

292 reviews

4

2 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963

2

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,702 members

430 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, bovical

3

by Gillian Flynn

8,542 members

415 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, bovical

4

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,114 members

423 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, bovical

5

by Erica Spindler

396 members

8 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, bovical

6

The Wasp Factory

7,067 members

200 reviews

3.8

2 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963

7

5,050 members

123 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

8

by Emma Donoghue

14,304 members

977 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,181 members

475 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,499 members

138 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

11

by Gillian Flynn

22,052 members

1,542 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

12

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,537 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: blackdove07

13

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,167 members

194 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

14

by Alan Jacobson

501 members

18 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

15

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,113 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

16

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

by Stephen King

9,271 members

151 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

17

The Girl Before

1,927 members

143 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bovical

18

The Invisible Man

10,900 members

253 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

19

10,205 members

583 reviews

3.8

Member: bovical

20

5,608 members

318 reviews

4

Member: bovical

21

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,421 members

630 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

22

The Secrets She Keeps

by Michael Robotham

604 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

23

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,628 members

374 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

24

by Chuck Palahniuk

6,864 members

85 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

25

by Pauline Réage

3,635 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

26

by Gillian Flynn

9,686 members

537 reviews

½ 3.7

27

by Dennis Lehane

7,498 members

299 reviews

3.9

28

by Dennis Lehane

5,870 members

138 reviews

4.1

29

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,457 members

131 reviews

½ 3.7

30

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,558 members

86 reviews

½ 3.7

31

1,887 members

58 reviews

3.9

32

by Patrick McGrath

1,505 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

33

The Bird's Nest

by Shirley Jackson

558 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: sturlington
May 2014
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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