“What are the best Psychological Thriller books?” We looked at 208 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
Last year, in the run-up to Halloween, we looked at the Scariest Books Of All-Time. This year we decided to look at individual genres that make up the horror genera.
The top 18 books, all appearing on 3 or more, “Best Psychological Thriller” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The books include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 180+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
You can also check out our sister website, Cinema Dailies, for a Best Psychological Thriller Movie List.
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Lists It Appears On:
“I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans. The lucky one.
As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.
Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.”
Lists It Appears On:
“To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating–a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.”
Lists It Appears On:
The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. “Some people are better off dead,” Bruno remarks, “like your wife and my father, for instance.” As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
Lists It Appears On:
“EMMA
Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings. But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house retains full control: no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform its occupant—and it does.JANE
After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street she is instantly drawn to the space—and to its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home’s previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people, and experiences the same terror, as the girl before.”
Lists It Appears On:
“One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life.
When Colin decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota instead of delivering her to his employers, Mia’s mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them. But no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family’s world to shatter.
An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a propulsive debut that reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.”
Lists It Appears On:
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcroft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity–that she, in fact, is Lydia–their world crashes in once again. As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, they are forced to confront what really happened on that fateful day.
Lists It Appears On:
“Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou’s known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers–the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between–as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he’s the kind of officer you’re happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.
But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge–and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that’s perfectly all right with him.”
Lists It Appears On:
“Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time.
She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive’s eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy―and dangerous―alliance is born.
It’s almost impossible to live off the grid in the twenty-first century, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret. From heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, we are left to wonder…can she possibly outrun her past?
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Lists It Appears On:
“There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.
Now her husband is dead, and there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.
The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…”
Lists It Appears On:
“Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her…
It all starts with a classified ad. During her commute home one night, while glancing through her local paper, Zoe sees her own face staring back at her; a grainy photo along with a phone number and a listing for a website called FindTheOne.com.
Other women begin appearing in the same ad, a different one every day, and Zoe realizes they’ve become the victims of increasingly violent crimes—including murder. With the help of a determined cop, she uncovers the ad’s twisted purpose…A discovery that turns her paranoia into full-blown panic. Zoe is sure that someone close to her has set her up as the next target.
And now that man on the train—the one smiling at Zoe from across the car—could be more than just a friendly stranger. He could be someone who has deliberately chosen her and is ready to make his next move…”
Lists It Appears On:
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Lists It Appears On:
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
Lists It Appears On:
“EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.UNTIL TODAY
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?”
Lists It Appears On:
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house’s current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim’s first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
Lists It Appears On:
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Lists It Appears On:
“As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames “”Buffalo Bill,”” FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.
That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs–an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.”
Lists It Appears On:
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
Lists It Appears On:
S. J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller,reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who,following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form newmemories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is—and whoshe can trust.
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
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| 19 | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine | Addictive Books |
| Waterstones | |||
| 20 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Addictive Books |
| Early Bird Books | |||
| 21 | A Simple Plan | Scott Smith | Addictive Books |
| Huffington Post | |||
| 22 | All the Missing Girls | Megan Miranda | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 23 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | For Reading Addicts |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 24 | Before the Fall | Noah Hawley | Early Bird Books |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 25 | Dark Matter | Blake Crouch | Refinery 29 |
| The ine Up | |||
| 26 | Dark Places | Gillian Flynn | Goodreads |
| Playground Park Bench | |||
| 27 | Dear Daughter | Elizabeth Little | Waterstones |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | |||
| 28 | Defending Jacob | William Landay | Huffington Post |
| Addictive Books | |||
| 29 | Don’t You Cry | Mary Kubica | Goodreads |
| Playground Park Bench | |||
| 30 | Everything You Want Me to Be | Mindy Mejia | Book Bub |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 31 | Good Me, Bad Me | Ali Land | Goodreads |
| Prima | |||
| 32 | I Let You Go | Clare Mackintosh | Goodreads |
| Waterstones | |||
| 33 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | For Reading Addicts |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 34 | In the Blood | Lisa Unger | Early Bird Books |
| Goodreads | |||
| 35 | In the Woods | Tana French | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 36 | Intensity | Dean Koontz | For Reading Addicts |
| Mystery Sequels | |||
| 37 | Into the Darkest Corner | Elizabeth Haynes | Goodreads |
| Mystery Sequels | |||
| 38 | Into the Water | Paula Hawkins | Goodreads |
| Prima | |||
| 39 | Marrow | Tarryn Fisher | Early Bird Books |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | |||
| 40 | Pretty Baby | Mary Kubica | Goodreads |
| Playground Park Bench | |||
| 41 | Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter | Early Bird Books |
| Goodreads | |||
| 42 | The Butterfly Garden | Dot Hutchison | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 43 | The Consequences Series | Aleatha Romig | Goodreads |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | |||
| 44 | The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 45 | The Girl Before | Rena Olsen | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 46 | The Kind Worth Killing | Peter Swanson | Goodreads |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | |||
| 47 | The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted | Andrew E. Kaufman | Hub Pages |
| Mystery Sequels | |||
| 48 | The Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll | Refinery 29 |
| Waterstones | |||
| 49 | The Shining | Stephen King | For Reading Addicts |
| Goodreads | |||
| 50 | The Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware | Goodreads |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 51 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | For Reading Addicts |
| Waterstones | |||
| 52 | What She Knew | Gilly Macmillan | Goodreads |
| Playground Park Bench | |||
| 53 | You | Caroline Kepnes | Goodreads |
| Bookish | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 Lists each) | |||
| 54 | A Death in Summer: A Novel | Benjamin Black | Addictive Books |
| 55 | A Drop of the Hard Stuff | Lawrence Block | Addictive Books |
| 56 | After the Crash | Michel Bussi | Waterstones |
| 57 | Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris | Goodreads |
| 58 | Behind Her Eyes | Sarah Pinborough | Goodreads |
| 59 | Big Little Lies | Playground Park Bench | |
| 60 | Blacklands | Belinda Bauer | Waterstones |
| 61 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | The Guardian |
| 62 | Broken Harbor: A Novel | Tana French | Addictive Books |
| 63 | Bury Me | Tara Sivec | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 64 | Cage of Bones | Tania Carver | Early Bird Books |
| 65 | Captured | Neil Cross | Early Bird Books |
| 66 | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | For Reading Addicts |
| 67 | Comfort Food | Kitty Thomas | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 68 | Copycat | Gillian White | Early Bird Books |
| 69 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Addictive Books |
| 70 | Damage | Josephine Hart | Early Bird Books |
| 71 | Dangerous Girls | Abigail Haas | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 72 | Dark Corners | Liz Schulte | Hub Pages |
| 73 | Dead Woman Walking | Sharon Bolton | Prima |
| 74 | Dear Mr. M | Herman Koch | Book Bub |
| 75 | Degree of Guilt | Richard North Patterson | Addictive Books |
| 76 | Dillinger | Jack Higgins | The ine Up |
| 77 | Dirty Snow | Georges Simenon | Addictive Books |
| 78 | Disclaimer | Renee Knight | Waterstones |
| 79 | Don’t Try to Find Me | Bookish | |
| 80 | Drowning Ruth: A Novel | Christina Schwarz | Addictive Books |
| 81 | End of the Wasp Season | Denise Mina | Addictive Books |
| 82 | Endless Night | Agatha Christie | Waterstones |
| 83 | Enduring Love | Ian McEwan | Mystery Sequels |
| 84 | Every Dead Thing | John Connolly | The Guardian |
| 85 | Every Secret Thing | Laura Lipmann | The Guardian |
| 86 | Everything We Keep | Kerry Lonsdale | Playground Park Bench |
| 87 | Exposed | Liza Marklund | Addictive Books |
| 88 | Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff | Refinery 29 |
| 89 | Fever | Friedrich Glauser | Addictive Books |
| 90 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Addictive Books |
| 91 | Follow You Home | Mark Edwards | Goodreads |
| 92 | Galveston: A Novel | Nic Pizzolatto | Addictive Books |
| 93 | Gaudy Nights | Dorothy L. Sayers | Addictive Books |
| 94 | Girl Last Seen | Nina Laurin | Refinery 29 |
| 95 | Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel | Dennis Lehane | Addictive Books |
| 96 | Good as Gone | Amy Gentry | Refinery 29 |
| 97 | Hannibal | Thomas Harris | Goodreads |
| 98 | Harriet Said | Beryl Bainbridge | Early Bird Books |
| 99 | Here and Gone | Haylen Beck | Prima |
| 100 | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Lois Duncan | Huffington Post |
| 101 | I Saw a Man | Owen Sheers | Waterstones |
| 102 | I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Iain Reid | Goodreads |
| 103 | In a Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware | Goodreads |
| 104 | In Matto’s Realm | Friedrich Glauser | Addictive Books |
| 105 | Innocent Blood | P. D. James | Addictive Books |
| 106 | Jane Doe January | Bookish | |
| 107 | Jeremy’s Loss | Jeff Menapace | Hub Pages |
| 108 | Jezebel | K. Larsen | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 109 | Just What Kind of Mother Are You? | Paula Daly | Mystery Sequels |
| 110 | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy | Early Bird Books |
| 111 | Little Deaths | Emma Flint | Book Bub |
| 112 | Lush Life: A Novel | Richard Price | Addictive Books |
| 113 | Max | D.M. Mitchell | Hub Pages |
| 114 | Messiah | Boris Starling | Mystery Sequels |
| 115 | Miracle Man | William R. Leibowitz | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 116 | Misery | Stephen King | Goodreads |
| 117 | Moral Defense | Marcia Clarke | Refinery 29 |
| 118 | Mortal Memory | Thomas Cook | Early Bird Books |
| 119 | Mr Clarinet | Nick Stone | The Guardian |
| 120 | Mud Vein | Tarryn Fisher | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 121 | Mystic River | Dennis Lehane | Addictive Books |
| 122 | Nemesis: A Novel | Jo Nesbø | Addictive Books |
| 123 | Night Film | Marisha Pessl | Refinery 29 |
| 124 | No Good Deed | M.P. McDonald | Hub Pages |
| 125 | One Kick: A Novel (Kick Lannigan Book 1) | Chelsea Cain | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 126 | Only Daughter | Anna Snoekstra | Book Bub |
| 127 | Primal Fear | William Diehl | Addictive Books |
| 128 | Psycho | Robert Bloch | Addictive Books |
| 129 | Quiet River | Natasha A. Salnikova | Hub Pages |
| 130 | Rattle | Fiona Cummins | Prima |
| 131 | Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel | Kimberly McCreight | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 132 | Red Dragon | Thomas Harris | Goodreads |
| 133 | Ripley’s Game | Patricia Highsmith | Addictive Books |
| 134 | Rush of Blood | Mark Billingham | Mystery Sequels |
| 135 | S | J.J. Abrams | Addictive Books |
| 136 | Second Life | S.J. Watson | Goodreads |
| 137 | See Jane Run | Joy Fielding | Huffington Post |
| 138 | Serial Killers Case Files | R.J. Parker | Addictive Books |
| 139 | Shelter | Harlan Coben | Huffington Post |
| 140 | Snow White Must Die | Nele Neuhaus | Addictive Books |
| 141 | Sometimes I Lie | Alice Feeney | Prima |
| 142 | Still Missing | Chevy Stevens | Goodreads |
| 143 | Storm | Boris Starling | Mystery Sequels |
| 144 | Swerve | Vicki Pettersson | Early Bird Books |
| 145 | Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader | Addictive Books |
| 146 | The 7th Victim | Alan Jacobson | Early Bird Books |
| 147 | The Alienist | Caleb Carr | Addictive Books |
| 148 | The Andalucian Friend | Alexander Soderberg | Addictive Books |
| 149 | The Black Tower | P. D. James | Addictive Books |
| 150 | The Breakdown | B.A. Paris | Goodreads |
| 151 | The Chemist | Stephanie Meyer | Refinery 29 |
| 152 | The Darkest Room: A Novel | Johan Theorin | Addictive Books |
| 153 | The Dinner | Herman Koch | Addictive Books |
| 154 | The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | Addictive Books |
| 155 | The Drowning Pool | Ross Macdonald | Addictive Books |
| 156 | The Fall Guy | James Lasdun | Book Bub |
| 157 | The Fifth Woman | Henning Mankell | Addictive Books |
| 158 | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson | Refinery 29 |
| 159 | The Grownup | Gillian Flynn | Goodreads |
| 160 | The Honeymoon | Tina Seskis | Prima |
| 161 | The House of the Wicked | D. M. Mitchell | Hub Pages |
| 162 | The Husbands Secret | Playground Park Bench | |
| 163 | The Ice Beneath Her | Camilla Grebe | Book Bub |
| 164 | The Ice Harvest | Scott Phillips | The Guardian |
| 165 | The Inquisitor | Peter Clement | Hub Pages |
| 166 | The Judas Child | Carol O’Connell | Early Bird Books |
| 167 | The Lake of Darkness | Ruth Rendell | Addictive Books |
| 168 | The Last Days of Night | Graham Moore | Refinery 29 |
| 169 | The Leopard | Jo Nesbø | Addictive Books |
| 170 | The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens | Playground Park Bench |
| 171 | The Likeness | Tana French | Goodreads |
| 172 | The Magpies | Mark Edwards | Goodreads |
| 173 | The Man Who Smiled | Henning Mankell | Addictive Books |
| 174 | The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | Georges Simenon | Addictive Books |
| 175 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | Addictive Books |
| 176 | The Murderer Next Door | Rafael Yglesias | The ine Up |
| 177 | The Never List | Koethi Zan | Mystery Sequels |
| 178 | The Night Visitor | Lucy Atkins | Prima |
| 179 | The Nightwalker | Sebastian Fitzek | Book Bub |
| 180 | The Party | Elizabeth Day | Refinery 29 |
| 181 | The Perfect Girl | Gilly Macmillan | Book Bub |
| 182 | The Perfect Neighbors | Sarah Pekkanen | Book Bub |
| 183 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | Addictive Books |
| 184 | The Safe Room | B. A. Shapiro | The ine Up |
| 185 | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Refinery 29 |
| 186 | The Sister | Louise Jensen | Goodreads |
| 187 | The Strangers in the House | Georges Simenon | Addictive Books |
| 188 | The Straw Men | Michael Marshall | The Guardian |
| 189 | The Talented Mr. Ripley. | Patricia Highsmith | Addictive Books |
| 190 | The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel | Stef Penney | Addictive Books |
| 191 | The Trespasser | Tana French | Refinery 29 |
| 192 | The Woman in White | Collins, Wilkie | Addictive Books |
| 193 | The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The ine Up |
| 194 | They All Fall Down | Tammy Cohen | Prima |
| 195 | Those Who Walk Away | Patricia Highsmith | Addictive Books |
| 196 | Tony and Susan: Now the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals | Austin Wright | Waterstones |
| 197 | Tropic Moon | Georges Simenon | Addictive Books |
| 198 | Truly Madly Guilty | Playground Park Bench | |
| 199 | Twisted Truth | Joanne Clarey | Hub Pages |
| 200 | Underneath | Kealan Patrick Burke | Hub Pages |
| 201 | Waltz into Darkness | Cornell Woolrich | Addictive Books |
| 202 | Watching Edie | Camilla Way | Book Bub |
| 203 | We Could Be Beautiful | Swan Huntley | Book Bub |
| 204 | Where They Found Her: A Novel | Kimberly McCreight | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 205 | With Malice | Eileen Cook | Book Bub |
| 206 | With Visions of Red: Broken Bonds, Book One | Trisha Wolfe | Maryse’s Book Blog |
| 207 | Wreckage | Emily Bleeker | Playground Park Bench |
| 208 | You Will Know Me | Megan Abbott | Refinery 29 |
| Source | Article |
| Addictive Books | Psychological Thrillers |
| Book Bub | 14 New Psychological Thrillers You Probably Haven’t Read, But Should |
| Bookish | Sophie Hannah’s Six Favorite Psychological Thrillers |
| Early Bird Books | 15 Psychological Thriller Books That Mess with Your Head |
| For Reading Addicts | 10 Best Psychological Thrillers Everyone Should Read |
| Goodreads | Popular Psychological Thriller Books |
| Hub Pages | 10 Best Psychological Thriller Novels |
| Huffington post | 10 Psychological Thrillers That Will Absolutely Terrify You |
| Maryse’s Book Blog | Highly Recommended Psychological Thriller Books |
| Mystery Sequels | 5 Popular Psychological Thriller Books Worth Reading |
| Playground Park Bench | 15 AWESOME PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BOOK IDEAS FOR BOOK CLUB |
| Prima | The best psychological thrillers you need to read this year |
| Refinery 29 | If You Liked Gone Girl, You’ll Love These Suspense Thrillers |
| The Guardian | Alex Barclay’s top 10 psychological thrillers |
| The ine Up | 8 Psychological Thriller Books That Will Torment You For Days |
| Waterstones | The Thrill is All Mine |
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