Suspense books
Suspense books on in prose, ranked by community signal — 23 titles across the catalogue.

Rouge
Mona Awad
2023

The Pumpkin Spice Café
Laurie Gilmore
2023

The Land of Lost Things
John Connolly
2023

The Cloisters
Katy Hays
2022

The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig
2022

Little Disasters
Sarah Vaughan
2021

The Locked Door
Freida McFadden
2021

The End of Her
Shari Lapena
2020

The Outsider
Stephen King
2019

The Outsider
Stephen King
2019

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2019

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018

End of Watch
Stephen King
2017

Finders Keepers
Stephen King
2016

The Martian
Andy Weir
2014

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King
2014

The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
2014

Carrie
Stephen King
2011

Fallen
Karin Slaughter
2011

The Stand
Stephen King
2011

The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2006

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
1999

The Stand
Stephen King
1990
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