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The best psychological thriller books of all time

The books our community loved the most.

Loved by 52 people

Rebecca

By Daphne du Maurier ,

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Loved by 38 people

Yellowface

By R. F. Kuang ,

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Loved by 29 people

The Talented Mr. Ripley

By Patricia Highsmith ,

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Loved by 29 people

The Secret History

By Donna Tartt ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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Loved by 29 people

All the Colors of the Dark

By Chris Whitaker ,

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Loved by 23 people

The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 20 people

Big Little Lies

By Liane Moriarty ,

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Loved by 19 people

And Then There Were None

By Agatha Christie ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 17 people

'Salem's Lot

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 16 people

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 16 people

The Housemaid

By Freida McFadden ,

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Loved by 15 people

Sharp Objects

By Gillian Flynn ,

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Loved by 15 people

I Am Pilgrim

By Terry Hayes ,

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Loved by 14 people

My Sister, the Serial Killer

By Oyinkan Braithwaite ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 14 people

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad ,

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Loved by 14 people

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Loved by 14 people

Carrie

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 13 people

The Plot

By Jean Hanff Korelitz ,

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Loved by 13 people

The Guest List

By Lucy Foley ,

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Loved by 12 people

Shutter Island

By Dennis Lehane ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 12 people

Wrong Place Wrong Time

By Gillian McAllister ,

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Loved by 11 people

Misery

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 10 people

The Last House on Needless Street

By Catriona Ward ,

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Loved by 10 people

Verity

By Colleen Hoover ,

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Loved by 10 people

The Metamorphosis

By Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold (translator) ,

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Loved by 10 people

Fight Club

By Chuck Palahniuk ,

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Loved by 10 people

The Alienist

By Caleb Carr ,

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Loved by 9 people

The Magus

By John Fowles ,

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Loved by 9 people

The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins ,

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Loved by 9 people

The Woman in the Window

By A. J. Finn ,

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What You Made Me Do

By Barbara Gayle Austin ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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The Stillwater Murders

By Victoria Twead ,

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Loved by 9 people

Birnam Wood

By Eleanor Catton ,

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Loved by 9 people

None of This is True

By Lisa Jewell ,

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Loved by 9 people

First Lie Wins

By Ashley Elston ,

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Loved by 9 people

Here One Moment

By Liane Moriarty ,

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Loved by 8 people

The Luminous Dead

By Caitlin Starling ,

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Loved by 8 people

Red Dragon

By Thomas Harris ,

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Loved by 8 people

A Head Full of Ghosts

By Paul Tremblay ,

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Loved by 8 people

Before I Go to Sleep

By S.J. Watson ,

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Loved by 8 people

The Killer Inside Me

By Jim Thompson ,

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Loved by 8 people

Defending Jacob

By William Landay ,

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Loved by 8 people

Elizabeth Is Missing

By Emma Healey ,

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Loved by 8 people

The Bone Collector

By Jeffery Deaver ,

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Loved by 8 people

One by One

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Loved by 8 people

Dark Places

By Gillian Flynn ,

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Loved by 7 people

Bird Box

By Josh Malerman ,

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Loved by 7 people

Jamaica Inn

By Daphne du Maurier ,

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Loved by 7 people

The Light Between Oceans

By M.L. Stedman ,

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Loved by 7 people

Behind Her Eyes

By Sarah Pinborough ,

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Loved by 7 people

Milkman

By Anna Burns ,

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Loved by 7 people

Deliverance

By James Dickey ,

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Loved by 7 people

The Girls

By Emma Cline ,

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Loved by 7 people

The Vegetarian

By Han Kang , Deborah Smith (translator) ,

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Loved by 7 people

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

By Italo Calvino , William Weaver (translator) ,

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Loved by 7 people

Strangers on a Train

By Patricia Highsmith ,

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Loved by 6 people

Eileen

By Ottessa Moshfegh ,

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Loved by 6 people

The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Bowles ,

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Loved by 6 people

Behind Closed Doors

By B.A. Paris ,

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Loved by 6 people

The Couple Next Door

By Shari Lapena ,

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Loved by 6 people

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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Loved by 6 people

The Family Upstairs

By Lisa Jewell ,

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Loved by 6 people

Skinny Dip

By Carl Hiaasen ,

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Loved by 6 people

Cujo

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 6 people

NOS4A2

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Loved by 6 people

The Writing Retreat

By Julia Bartz ,

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Loved by 6 people

Jaws

By Peter Benchley ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Kind Worth Killing

By Peter Swanson ,

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Loved by 5 people

The House on the Strand

By Daphne du Maurier ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Marsh King's Daughter

By Karen Dionne ,

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Loved by 5 people

Foucault's Pendulum

By Umberto Eco ,

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Loved by 5 people

Night Film

By Marisha Pessl ,

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Loved by 5 people

Brighton Rock

By Graham Greene ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Historian

By Elizabeth Kostova ,

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Loved by 5 people

Mystic River

By Dennis Lehane ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Chain

By Adrian McKinty ,

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Loved by 5 people

Relic

By Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child ,

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Loved by 5 people

Home Before Dark

By Riley Sager ,

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Loved by 5 people

Rock Paper Scissors

By Alice Feeney ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Man Who Was Thursday

By G.K. Chesterton ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Sanatorium

By Sarah Pearse ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Life We Bury

By Allen Eskens ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Stranger Diaries

By Elly Griffiths ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Outsider

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Likeness

By Tana French ,

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Loved by 5 people

Coma

By Robin Cook ,

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Loved by 5 people

The Only One Left

By Riley Sager ,

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Loved by 5 people

Upgrade

By Blake Crouch ,

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Loved by 5 people

Bright Young Women

By Jessica Knoll ,

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Loved by 5 people

We Used to Live Here

By Marcus Kliewer ,

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Loved by 4 people

The Butcher Boy

By Patrick McCabe ,

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Loved by 4 people

Confessions on the 7

By Lisa Unger ,

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Loved by 4 people

A Legacy of Spies

By John le Carré ,

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Loved by 4 people

The Fireman

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Loved by 4 people

The Bad Seed

By William March ,

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Loved by 4 people

The Heat of the Day

By Elizabeth Bowen ,

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Loved by 4 people

The Hunting Party

By Lucy Foley ,

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Loved by 4 people

A Flicker in the Dark

By Stacy Willingham ,

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Loved by 4 people

Going After Cacciato

By Tim O'Brien ,

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Loved by 4 people

Raven Black

By Ann Cleeves ,

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Loved by 4 people

The Green Mile

By Stephen King ,

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Loved by 4 people

Little Eyes

By Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell (translator) ,

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