A good scare
Someone is standing behind the door. Leave the light on.
Thrillers, horror and everything read with held breath: tension is the criterion here, not the genre. Ordered by readers’ ratings, with a series shown once, by its first volume.
936 books behind this door, a series counted once · Conspiracy · Missing & kidnapped · Spies
Narrow it down in the finder →The best, according to readers
- 1Lonesome Dove
9.19.1 / 10 - 2Rhythm of War
9.09.0 / 10 - 3Project Hail Mary
9.09.0 / 10 - 4Mistborn: The Final Empire
8.98.9 / 10 - 5Watchmen
8.98.9 / 10 - 6The Trouble with Peace
8.98.9 / 10 - 7The Martian
8.88.8 / 10 - 8Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8.88.8 / 10 - 9Say Nothing
8.88.8 / 10 - 10Crooked Kingdom
8.88.8 / 10 - 11A Game of Thrones
8.78.7 / 10 - 12A Drop of Corruption
8.78.7 / 10 - 13Caliban's War
8.68.6 / 10 - 14A Thousand Splendid Suns
8.68.6 / 10 - 15House of Chains
8.48.4 / 10 - 16Red Rising
8.48.4 / 10 - 17All Systems Red
8.38.3 / 10 - 18Death Masks
8.28.2 / 10 - 19The Lost Hero
8.28.2 / 10 - 20Jade City
8.28.2 / 10 - 21Soulsmith
8.18.1 / 10 - 22The Eye of the World
8.18.1 / 10 - 23Throne of Glass
7.87.8 / 10 - 24A Court of Thorns and Roses
7.47.4 / 10
Ways in through this door
Moods behind this door
Horror or thriller, what is the difference?
Horror wants to frighten you, a thriller wants to not let go. Both are behind this door; the motifs in the tool (ghosts, vampires, murder mystery) let you pick one.
Are there books here that are not too violent?
Yes, tension does not need blood. Choose the mood “Mysterious” instead of “Dark” in the tool and the list shifts towards the puzzle.
Which of these books have adaptations?
Tick “Filmed” in the tool; you will see only books with a film or series, still ordered by the rating of the book, not the film.