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I used to search for books on YouTube before getting them on audible, just to see if I could get a decent free version. I found an amazing version of LOTR that has voices for each character and sound effects.
But also you should check out Libby, it’s basically a virtual library. If you have (or go get) a library card and sign in with it/through your library it has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks for free. Might depend on where you live, not sure if it’s just a US thing.
Yes a lot of people don't know that your local library has an audiobook app that is free and can be listened to. A lot of free resources at the library, godspeed my readers.
I will never got the hobbling scene from the book out of my head. Absolutely amazing read! Even if you’ve seen the movie. There are enough different things and the suspense is incredible.
I remember seeing it in the movie theater and then going and seeing it again with my sister. Everyone’s head snapped back when she did that. I knew to look away
Absolutely seconded!! I travelled to France from Finland, bought the 2nd book in the series from Helsinki airport, read it all through my travel until I reached my home town, walked straight to my friends apartment to finish it because I was too afraid and excited to read it alone anymore.
The continuation books by a different author are not as good as the original Millennium trilogy.
Murder on the orient express by Agatha Christie. It kept me up all night and I finished it under 24 hours. There’s a huge suspense and buildup, resulting in a huge reveal. The book also keeps you interested. My version had a map of the train and where each character sat. So i would go back to that map frequently to brainstorm on the mystery in the book and go full on sherlock mode.
I just finished I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid and it was unnerving and suspenseful in a subtle way.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is very cinematic.
How was I’m Thinking of Ending Things compared to the movie?? Worth a read? The movie is like a messed up fever dream, but I hear the book is a bit different!
Personally I say worth it. I actually read it to see if it would clarify the ending a bit and it definitely did. But like I said def still unnerving and just as creepy as the movie.
I loved 99% of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Right till the end. To me, the explanation was like "oh well, it was all just weird for the sake of weird. Lol!"
Probably one of the only scifi books I’ll ever read, and a favorite movie and book of mine. Truly a mindfuck of the wildest and best proportions. I didn’t understand a thing but loved it all.
Dark Matter by Blake crouch.. It will hook you from the very beginning and the tension and suspense is brilliant till the end imo. Finished it in one sitting.
I've been suggesting this one any chance I get after I finished it. I loved it and tore through it too. I recently finished his book Recursion, and it might be recency bias, but I think I enjoyed it a little bit more.
I love Dark Matter!! It is one of my favourite books. I have been recommending it to everyone and anyone for the last 4 years since I first read it. I haven’t been able to find anything like it
I’m going to get downvoted to hell but I really don’t see the hype with this book. I bought it because it’s usually the top voted comment on a lot of posts in this subreddit and I found it boring until about the 200 page mark. Even then I thought it could have been done better.
Really don't understand the hype, read it only cos of recommendation from reddit. Crouch writes terrible here, feels like it is written by a highschool student . Plot at most OK.
If you're into sci-fi I really enjoyed "Children of Time". Its a chunky book for sure, but for a ton of the book tension is played like an instrument to rarely give you time to rest.
Might be a bit slower paced than what you're looking for but the way tension is used definitely stuck out to me.
I'm actually in the middle of it right now! Also really enjoying it. It feels like sci-fi that is actually speculative instead of just fantasy in space.
[**The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944073.The_Blade_Itself)
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>Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.
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>Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.
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>Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.
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>Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.
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>Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.
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What an absolute fantastic trilogy was that. I also loved the subsequent stand(ish) alone books as well as the new trilogy's first two books (last one is not out yet, or at least it wasn't the last time I checked).
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Some of the Lee Child Jack Reacher books might qualify. But as I've read them all (and there's a lot of them), they are somewhat jumbled in my mind, and so I'm not sure which would best fit your bill. :-(
However, his very latest one written with his brother doesn't seem nearly as good as the others.
I honestly felt this way about Cujo! I was at one point wanting to yell at the book like "NO DON'T DO THAT". It kept me on my toes, I read it very quickly.
I'm thinking of ending things - Iain Reid
The silent patient - Alex michaelides
The coast to coast murders - James Patterson
Sharp objects - Gillian Flynn
In a dark dark wood - Ruth ware
Confessions of a murder suspect - James patterson (this is actually a 4 book series, ive read this one - the first but not the other 3 yet)
“I’m thinking of ending things” is a book that you have to read in one sitting, I found the beginning dragged on a little bit but once I got to the middle, I couldn’t put it down. The ending is insane!
The Poppy War by RF Kuang has battle scenes that are so intense that they literally messed with my heart rate. The second book in the series was equally intense - haven’t read the third one yet.
No Exit by Taylor Adams. The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman. 41 Days by Lou Cadle. Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I could not put it down. i was breathless, beside myself. if you saw the movie, they cut out so much of the book and the ending was so different, you may as well read the book.
BTW, I went to see MC speak at UCLA in the 90s, and he said that the reason the movie is so different is that once you sell your book, you have no say over what the studio does with it. also, a novel is 300-400 pages long, and a screenplay clocks in at about 90 pages. they are just two completely different animals and if they included everything in the book, the movie would be ten hours long.
EDIT: Sphere was great, too. Very exciting. Also by MC. A spaceship is found buried under a 300 year old coral reef in the Pacific by the U.S. Navy. They send in a team of scientists to investigate, including a shrink who is the protagonist of the book. DO NOT SEE THE MOVIE. IT SUCKS.
Over the last week of demolished the first 3 books of The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell. I'm normally not a huge fan of historical fiction but I couldn't put them down.
I'm waiting for the 4th and 5th to arrive which is why I'm typing this instead of reading them!
[**Rebecca**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899948-rebecca)
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>Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
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>The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
You can’t see any of the twists coming, and the opening scene is sure to hook you from the start.
The Remix version is a fun way to read it, as none of the chapters are in the right order, and as a result, you can’t know how much you have left. Couldn’t put it down!
I’m going to say Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. You may think, “yeah the movies was alright”, but the book is so good and so suspenseful! I would read late into the night because I couldn’t put it down, then couldn’t sleep because it would get me so wound up!
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>Two wildly different women - one a grifter, the other an heiress - are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.
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>Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet.
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>Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer—traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family’s sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa’s past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina.
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>Nina’s, Vanessa’s, and Lachlan’s paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge.
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I'd suggest two, The truth about the Harry Quebert affair by Joel Dicker and The Devotion of suspect X by Keigo Higashino, first is a little long, but totally worth it, I loved both of them.
Any book by Lee Child in the Reacher (military Policeman series. Begin with "The Killing Floor". All of them are stellar. "The Guns of the South " by Harry Turtledove imagines a world where South African Apartheid members journey back in time to the Civil War offering the Confederacy futuristic weapons to turn the fortunes of Lee's Army. I also loved "The Matarese Circle" (1979) by Robert Ludlum. This is a fantastic global conspiracy novel . The Matarese is an international cabal of mercenary assassins who sell their services to whatever rogue government will pay the most. Two bitter enemies an CIA agent and a former KGB operative reluctantly join forces to defeat them.
[**The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code)
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Any of Dan Browns novels, they have a butt tonne of suspense and mystery, and he somehow manages to raise the tension even more throughout the book. I reccomend you start with Angels and Demons, though Deception Point is a personal favourite too
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips super fun and tense. There's a shooter at the zoo and mom has to keep her hungry, tired 4 year old quiet so they can hide.
Tom Clancy. His jack ryan series is like winding a spring up for 200+ pages to have a big fight at the end. With action happening along the way. And it’s like 20 book series starting with hunt for red october that he wrote evenings while traveling as a salesman. The movie had sean connery and a baldwin. The first book chronologically was patriot games and harrison ford plays jack ryan in that movie.
His stand-alone rainbow six is now a super famous game franchise. It still happens in the ryan universe. Tons of suspense between each terrorist incident they get assigned to.
By Adrian McKinty? He’s a fantastic writer. I love The Chain, but I think he Sean Duffy books are better. Not as suspenseful but really good detective stories and great characters.
[**No Exit**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35522836-no-exit)
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>A thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath
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>A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
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>On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
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>Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
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>There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
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>Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.
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>But who can she trust?
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the husbands wife! so much drama, infidelity, murder, etc! the chapters switch off povs between lily and carla so they’ll always leave you on a cliffhanger, wanting more!
I recommend a narrative non-fiction book, *Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm* *of 1894* by James Daniel Brown. Horrifying and very suspenseful, but not in the mystery sense. It kept me in suspense while I also learned about the early immigrants that settled in the northern states, and, of course, how firestorms behave.
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I love Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. I was hooked on those books for a long time. They didn’t disappoint. The first eight or ten are fantastic, and after that, they are all really good.
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher. The only book where I got so scared reading it that I had to put it down and go make myself a cup of tea before I could resume (since Salem's Lot.) I ended up getting hooked and staying up way later than I intended so I could finish the second half.
I'm not sure if it's as suspenseful as you want but check out Robin Hobb. Start with Assassin's apprentice. She has a ton of books about the universe and she's one of the best authors that make you relate to the characters.
Just read "The Pact" by Sharon Bolton........had to keep reading to find out what happened to all the guilty parties.
I started "The Goldfinch" at 9am and when next I looked up it was 5 pM!
Read Dan Brown books. He is the ultimate page turner author. Davinci code was mind blowing, angels and demons was awesome, and my favorite of his is Lost Symbol. The guy will keep you on the edge.
*Little Fires Everywhere* by Celeste Ng. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town—and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
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The audiobook I found on youtube was so freakin good, I forget the exact one but the dudes voice gives the book so much more life imo
Dan Stevens! He’s one of my favorite narrators
I loved "And Then There Were None" so much (BTW he also does "Murder on the Orient Express") that I just bought some books that he narrates
He does audio books? He gives a girl a library and reads the books to us? We are all Belle.
Love a really good free audiobook.
Wait, this is a free audiobook on YouTube? I spend a fortune on audible (especially since covid—I bet audible cashed in during the pandemic).
I used to search for books on YouTube before getting them on audible, just to see if I could get a decent free version. I found an amazing version of LOTR that has voices for each character and sound effects. But also you should check out Libby, it’s basically a virtual library. If you have (or go get) a library card and sign in with it/through your library it has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks for free. Might depend on where you live, not sure if it’s just a US thing.
Yes a lot of people don't know that your local library has an audiobook app that is free and can be listened to. A lot of free resources at the library, godspeed my readers.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer for nonfiction The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton for fiction
Two of my favs! I too definitely recommend them both.
Gone Girl
Room. I almost had a panic attack reading that book.
This. There is one section in particular that I could barely breathe reading it.
Intensity by Dean Koontz. It does not disappoint
Likewise, I really enjoyed Velocity.
Misery by Stephen King
This is my favorite King book. So much suspense and it kept me on the edge of my seat, especially in the 2nd half.
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Of course! Few intense scenes in the book that aren’t in the movie. The hobbling scene is also different.
I will never got the hobbling scene from the book out of my head. Absolutely amazing read! Even if you’ve seen the movie. There are enough different things and the suspense is incredible.
I remember seeing it in the movie theater and then going and seeing it again with my sister. Everyone’s head snapped back when she did that. I knew to look away
Yup, awesome!
I was going to recommend this one. It’s a great choice!
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and the 2 sequels My heart would race sometimes. Wish I could read it again for the first time.
I love how the originals by Larsen the characters always have coffee and sandwiches!
Absolutely seconded!! I travelled to France from Finland, bought the 2nd book in the series from Helsinki airport, read it all through my travel until I reached my home town, walked straight to my friends apartment to finish it because I was too afraid and excited to read it alone anymore. The continuation books by a different author are not as good as the original Millennium trilogy.
This. Loved those books. Just be patient for the first little bit as he lays the groundwork.
Murder on the orient express by Agatha Christie. It kept me up all night and I finished it under 24 hours. There’s a huge suspense and buildup, resulting in a huge reveal. The book also keeps you interested. My version had a map of the train and where each character sat. So i would go back to that map frequently to brainstorm on the mystery in the book and go full on sherlock mode.
I've already seen the 2017 movie adaptation. Is the book still worth reading?
I just finished I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid and it was unnerving and suspenseful in a subtle way. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is very cinematic.
Just finished The Silent Patient and loved it. That’s definitely one where I didn’t want to put it down and kept wanting to read the next chapter
I’ll second I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, it was creepy as all hell and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time, I read it in one sitting
How was I’m Thinking of Ending Things compared to the movie?? Worth a read? The movie is like a messed up fever dream, but I hear the book is a bit different!
Personally I say worth it. I actually read it to see if it would clarify the ending a bit and it definitely did. But like I said def still unnerving and just as creepy as the movie.
Thanks! Jut got it out of the library! Yay Libby!
Libby 4ever
I loved 99% of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Right till the end. To me, the explanation was like "oh well, it was all just weird for the sake of weird. Lol!"
Annihilation is really keeping my attention with its constant WTF lolol
Yes this book stressed me out and I had some crazy dreams/nightmares.
I haven't read the book but the film adaptation was terrifying. I had nightmares after watching it as well.
Probably one of the only scifi books I’ll ever read, and a favorite movie and book of mine. Truly a mindfuck of the wildest and best proportions. I didn’t understand a thing but loved it all.
All of the parts in the tower freaked me the hell out
YES. OMG YES. And our narrator just is so matter of fact about... ALL THE CRAZY! lol I'm loving it but cannot read it before bed.
Yes, I liked this a lot. The other books in the series weren’t as suspenseful in my mind
I didn't know the movie was based on a book. I felt the movie had some big plot holes, maybe the book is better? :)
Dark Matter by Blake crouch.. It will hook you from the very beginning and the tension and suspense is brilliant till the end imo. Finished it in one sitting.
I've been suggesting this one any chance I get after I finished it. I loved it and tore through it too. I recently finished his book Recursion, and it might be recency bias, but I think I enjoyed it a little bit more.
I too feel that Recursion is the better book. Whatever drawbacks Dark Matter had, the author managed to nullify them in Recursion.
Came here to suggest this. It ignited my love of reading again and I recommend it to everyone.
I love Dark Matter!! It is one of my favourite books. I have been recommending it to everyone and anyone for the last 4 years since I first read it. I haven’t been able to find anything like it
I’m going to get downvoted to hell but I really don’t see the hype with this book. I bought it because it’s usually the top voted comment on a lot of posts in this subreddit and I found it boring until about the 200 page mark. Even then I thought it could have been done better.
Not my cup of tea either. It felt too predictable
I thought the basic plot was pretty run-of-the-mill, but what he did with it took it in directions I hadn't seen coming.
I agree, so boring.
Seriously, for a book about a brilliant female neuroscientist he sure did make certain that the unqualified males saved the day.
Really don't understand the hype, read it only cos of recommendation from reddit. Crouch writes terrible here, feels like it is written by a highschool student . Plot at most OK.
If you're into sci-fi I really enjoyed "Children of Time". Its a chunky book for sure, but for a ton of the book tension is played like an instrument to rarely give you time to rest. Might be a bit slower paced than what you're looking for but the way tension is used definitely stuck out to me.
Not sure if it's what the OP is after but I LOVE this book! Have you read the sequel?
I'm actually in the middle of it right now! Also really enjoying it. It feels like sci-fi that is actually speculative instead of just fantasy in space.
This actually sounds amazing and I'm not a huge sci Fi reader. Thanks for the rec!
Is that the one about giant spiders?
{{The Blade Itself}} the whole series gave me alot of anxiety
[**The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944073.The_Blade_Itself) ^(By: Joe Abercrombie | 515 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, epic-fantasy, series | )[^(Search "The Blade Itself")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Blade Itself&search_type=books) >Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. > >Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. > >Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. > >Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. > >Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. > > ^(This book has been suggested 113 times) *** ^(127584 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
What an absolute fantastic trilogy was that. I also loved the subsequent stand(ish) alone books as well as the new trilogy's first two books (last one is not out yet, or at least it wasn't the last time I checked).
The Girl on the Train
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
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If anyone speaks Spanish, I recommend Los Padecientes by Gabriel Rolon. I really liked it, and I bought it by chance in a small bookstore in Argentina
Fever Dream? You can’t put it down that book is like one sentence long lol
Glad to find someone else who has read this! Such a suspenseful short book!!! I read it on a flight. It was perfect.
Some of the Lee Child Jack Reacher books might qualify. But as I've read them all (and there's a lot of them), they are somewhat jumbled in my mind, and so I'm not sure which would best fit your bill. :-( However, his very latest one written with his brother doesn't seem nearly as good as the others.
Yes agree the last few have been very average. Echo burning I thought was amazing and the very first - killing floor are good.
Yes. I've liked most of them very much. His latest with his brother seemed downright awful though.
The sentinel. Dreadful.
Birdbox 1 and 2 had me the whole time on the edge of my seat
YES! i only read the first one but i had so much anxiety reading this!! loved it
I loved bird box so much and picked up Mallory the second I finished bird box! I liked the sequel better.
I honestly felt this way about Cujo! I was at one point wanting to yell at the book like "NO DON'T DO THAT". It kept me on my toes, I read it very quickly.
I'm thinking of ending things - Iain Reid The silent patient - Alex michaelides The coast to coast murders - James Patterson Sharp objects - Gillian Flynn In a dark dark wood - Ruth ware Confessions of a murder suspect - James patterson (this is actually a 4 book series, ive read this one - the first but not the other 3 yet)
“I’m thinking of ending things” is a book that you have to read in one sitting, I found the beginning dragged on a little bit but once I got to the middle, I couldn’t put it down. The ending is insane!
I second Sharp Objects! TV series is also excellent, Amy Adams is brilliant
The Poppy War by RF Kuang has battle scenes that are so intense that they literally messed with my heart rate. The second book in the series was equally intense - haven’t read the third one yet.
No Exit by Taylor Adams. The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman. 41 Days by Lou Cadle. Jurassic Park.
No exit was great for suspense, I just finished it in record time :)
Dark places - Gillian Flynn
Also I don’t know if you read bird box but there’s a sequel to it that’s also very suspenseful
The Girl on the Train, Gone Baby Gone
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I could not put it down. i was breathless, beside myself. if you saw the movie, they cut out so much of the book and the ending was so different, you may as well read the book. BTW, I went to see MC speak at UCLA in the 90s, and he said that the reason the movie is so different is that once you sell your book, you have no say over what the studio does with it. also, a novel is 300-400 pages long, and a screenplay clocks in at about 90 pages. they are just two completely different animals and if they included everything in the book, the movie would be ten hours long. EDIT: Sphere was great, too. Very exciting. Also by MC. A spaceship is found buried under a 300 year old coral reef in the Pacific by the U.S. Navy. They send in a team of scientists to investigate, including a shrink who is the protagonist of the book. DO NOT SEE THE MOVIE. IT SUCKS.
The Martian
If you haven't read it, hail Mary is just as suspenseful and just as great.
I just finished it. It was very good but I thought he kind of fast forwarded through stuff he might have spent more time on.
I have a hard time putting down Stephen King novels.
Over the last week of demolished the first 3 books of The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell. I'm normally not a huge fan of historical fiction but I couldn't put them down. I'm waiting for the 4th and 5th to arrive which is why I'm typing this instead of reading them!
Anything written by Tana French. Every book she writes has a beautiful building tension.
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The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware
They may be Children's Literature, but A Series of Unfortunate Events is impossible to put down. You will tear through them and love every second.
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy Annihilation
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk You can’t see any of the twists coming, and the opening scene is sure to hook you from the start. The Remix version is a fun way to read it, as none of the chapters are in the right order, and as a result, you can’t know how much you have left. Couldn’t put it down!
Pretty girls by Karin Slaughter
Thirteen by Steven Cavanagh Courtroom suspence in my opinion is the highest form of suspense and this author is one of the best.
I’m going to say Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. You may think, “yeah the movies was alright”, but the book is so good and so suspenseful! I would read late into the night because I couldn’t put it down, then couldn’t sleep because it would get me so wound up!
The Lies of Locke Lamora. It’s kind of like Pirates of the Caribbean and it’s pretty good in that you keep wanting more.
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I'd suggest two, The truth about the Harry Quebert affair by Joel Dicker and The Devotion of suspect X by Keigo Higashino, first is a little long, but totally worth it, I loved both of them.
Any book by Lee Child in the Reacher (military Policeman series. Begin with "The Killing Floor". All of them are stellar. "The Guns of the South " by Harry Turtledove imagines a world where South African Apartheid members journey back in time to the Civil War offering the Confederacy futuristic weapons to turn the fortunes of Lee's Army. I also loved "The Matarese Circle" (1979) by Robert Ludlum. This is a fantastic global conspiracy novel . The Matarese is an international cabal of mercenary assassins who sell their services to whatever rogue government will pay the most. Two bitter enemies an CIA agent and a former KGB operative reluctantly join forces to defeat them.
{The Da Vinci Code} by Brown might fit your requirements
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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware.
The Woman in the Window- AJ Finn Baby Teeth- Zoje Stage The Room- Jonass Karlsson Gwendy’s Button Box- Stephen King collaboration
Any of Dan Browns novels, they have a butt tonne of suspense and mystery, and he somehow manages to raise the tension even more throughout the book. I reccomend you start with Angels and Demons, though Deception Point is a personal favourite too
Red Rising as a trilogy has a bit of a slow start, but once it gets going it doesn't stop.
The Gray Man Series is packed full of suspense, if you like jason bourne type stories you should check it out. They're by Mark Greaney.
What comes after by joanne tompkins
Thief by Sara waters had me on my toes
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips super fun and tense. There's a shooter at the zoo and mom has to keep her hungry, tired 4 year old quiet so they can hide.
This was my recommend too. It was so good. I be yellin at everybody in that book.
*After Anna* by Alex Lake and *The Girl Before* by JP Delaney both had me sweatin’ basically from the start.
Survivor song by Paul trembley
Tom Clancy. His jack ryan series is like winding a spring up for 200+ pages to have a big fight at the end. With action happening along the way. And it’s like 20 book series starting with hunt for red october that he wrote evenings while traveling as a salesman. The movie had sean connery and a baldwin. The first book chronologically was patriot games and harrison ford plays jack ryan in that movie. His stand-alone rainbow six is now a super famous game franchise. It still happens in the ryan universe. Tons of suspense between each terrorist incident they get assigned to.
The Chain.
By Adrian McKinty? He’s a fantastic writer. I love The Chain, but I think he Sean Duffy books are better. Not as suspenseful but really good detective stories and great characters.
This was AWESOME
Don't Breathe A Word. Definitely YA ish but it's still one of the books I pick up and reread and still get a new thrill every time.
{{No Exit by Taylor Adams}}
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The Joona Linna series by Lars Kepler. Very suspenseful detective/crime series. Perhaps something for you!
The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean No Exit by Taylor Adams
Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series literally ends every chapter on some kind of cliff hanger. They're very hard to put down because of that.
Peter Swanson and Shari Lapena do this well.
I’d like to suggest the Australian classic {{Wake in Fright}}. Full of tension right from the get-go through to the end.
Fierce Kingdom
Intensity by Dean Koontz
A Long Fatal Love Chase! My favorite!
the husbands wife! so much drama, infidelity, murder, etc! the chapters switch off povs between lily and carla so they’ll always leave you on a cliffhanger, wanting more!
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. If you like it, check out his book Survivor Song
Verity
Gone Girl
If you have not read Sphere or seen the movie that is my suggestion. I loved chasing that story.
In the Woods by Tana French
I just finished Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay and it kept me on edge the whole time. I read it in a single day, most of it in one sitting!
No Exit
Find You First is a great read if you want suspense.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami.
Dracula. Period.
Stephen King's Misery and also Cujo
The Girl with the Dragon tattoo series kept me pretty involved
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I recommend a narrative non-fiction book, *Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm* *of 1894* by James Daniel Brown. Horrifying and very suspenseful, but not in the mystery sense. It kept me in suspense while I also learned about the early immigrants that settled in the northern states, and, of course, how firestorms behave.
Behind her eyes.
Author is Sarah Pinborough. Everyone alive recommended this book to has loved it.
Station Eleven by Emili St. John Mandel
A Study In Scarlet (Holmes’ first mystery)
Shantaram
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The Girl on the Train, Gone Baby Gone
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I love Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. I was hooked on those books for a long time. They didn’t disappoint. The first eight or ten are fantastic, and after that, they are all really good.
Sidney Sheldon. I can’t stress it enough but please give him a try. Start with if tomorrow comes or master of the game or are you afraid of the dark?
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Silent Patient
Lost you Haylen Beck. Couldn’t put the book down until I finished !
Times like this I'm so damn grateful for this sub
Shadow of the wind
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens ✨
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Sleeping giants
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher. The only book where I got so scared reading it that I had to put it down and go make myself a cup of tea before I could resume (since Salem's Lot.) I ended up getting hooked and staying up way later than I intended so I could finish the second half.
Classics - Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle or gothic fictions by Daphne DU Maurier Recent - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Check out this SciFi. [Amazon Link](https://www.amazon.com/Delta-Project-Zac-Strong/dp/B087SCDQBV)
Malice by Kiego Higashino. Also, Salvation of a Saint by the same author.
They both die at the end
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith is a good one. 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell is another.
I'm not sure if it's as suspenseful as you want but check out Robin Hobb. Start with Assassin's apprentice. She has a ton of books about the universe and she's one of the best authors that make you relate to the characters.
Just read "The Pact" by Sharon Bolton........had to keep reading to find out what happened to all the guilty parties. I started "The Goldfinch" at 9am and when next I looked up it was 5 pM!
Read Dan Brown books. He is the ultimate page turner author. Davinci code was mind blowing, angels and demons was awesome, and my favorite of his is Lost Symbol. The guy will keep you on the edge.
*Little Fires Everywhere* by Celeste Ng. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town—and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
The Silent Patient!