50 Best Suspense Books of All Time

Given by reedsyDiscovery

50 Works 453,787 Books 17,250 Reviews ½ 3.9
A list of the 50 books that best build up suspense for the reader as decided by the literary blog reedsyDiscovery.
Work
The Wrath and the Dawn (2015) by Renée Ahdieh
Memory Man (2015) by David Baldacci
A Simple Favor (2017) by Darcey Bell
The Da Vinci Code (2003) by Dan Brown
Social Creature (2018) by Tara Isabella Burton
Stillhouse Lake (2017) by Rachel Caine
Necessary Lies (2013) by Diane Chamberlain
Killing Floor (1997) by Lee Child
And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
Where Are the Children? (1975) by Mary Higgins Clark
Tell No One (2001) by Harlan Coben
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
Wolf in White Van (2014) by John Darnielle
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Woman in the Window (2018) by Daniel Mallory
Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects (2006) by Gillian Flynn
In the Woods (2007) by Tana French
The Surgeon (2001) by Tess Gerritsen
Long Man (2014) by Amy Greene
The Dry (2016) by Jane Harper
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Thomas Harris
The Girl on the Train (2015) by Paula Hawkins
The Wife Between Us (2017) by Greer Hendricks
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
Descent (2015) by Tim Johnston
You (2014) by Caroline Kepnes
Misery (1987) by Stephen King
The Shining (1977) by Stephen King
The Dinner (2009) by Herman Koch
Intensity (1995) by Dean Koontz
The Couple Next Door (2016) by Shari Lapeña
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Stieg Larsson
Bird Box (2014) by Josh Malerman
The Silent Patient (2019) by Alex Michaelides
Big Little Lies (2014) by Liane Moriarty
The Husband's Secret (2013) by Liane Moriarty
The Snowman (2010) by Jo Nesbø
Little Fires Everywhere (2017) by Celeste Ng
Vanishing Girls (2015) by Lauren Oliver
White is for Witching (2009) by Helen Oyeyemi
Serena (2008) by Ron Rash
The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Baby Teeth (7) by Zoje Stage
The Kind Worth Killing (2015) by Peter Swanson
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) by Ruth Ware
Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
Before I Go to Sleep (2011) by S. J. Watson

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