Most Popular Thriller Books

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Vera Stanhope #11

The Dark Wives

Ann Cleeves

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

August 27, 2024

Jack Noble #16

Never Look Back

L.T. Ryan

Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Thriller

June 13, 2024

Jonathan Quinn #16

The Taken

Brett Battles

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

November 14, 2023

John Decker Supernatural Thrillers #14

Night Wraith

Anthony M. Strong

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

November 20, 2023

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

September 5, 2023

An Agathas Mystery #2

The Night in Question

Kathleen Glasgow, Liz Lawson

Young Adult · Mystery · Thriller

May 30, 2023

Sisterhood #35

Rock Bottom

Fern Michaels

Mystery · Thriller

December 26, 2023

The Inheritance Games #4

The Brothers Hawthorne

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Young Adult · Mystery · Thriller

August 29, 2023

Susan Ryeland #2

Moonflower Murders

Anthony Horowitz

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

August 20, 2020

Detective Louise Blackwell #2

The Descent

Matt Brolly

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

July 23, 2020

Eden

Tim Lebbon

Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

April 7, 2020

This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

September 4, 2019

The Passengers

John Marrs

Science Fiction · Thriller

May 2019

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Mystery · Romance · Thriller

December 7, 2018

Luke Stone #6

Our Sacred Honor

Jack Mars

Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

September 19, 2017

Stillhouse Lake #2

Killman Creek

Rachel Caine

Thriller

December 2017

Nailbiters

Paul Kane

Horror · Crime Fiction · Psychological Horror · Short Stories · Thriller

February 2017

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine

Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

Joe R. Lansdale

Thriller

March 14, 2017

Jane Hawk #1

The Silent Corner

Dean Koontz

Thriller

June 19, 2017

Ayahuasca

Jonathan Huls

Horror · Thriller

August 2016

Lawless #2

Lawless and the Flowers of Sin

William Sutton

Mystery · Thriller

July 12, 2016

The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story

Don Swaim

Horror · Historical Fiction · Mainstream · Thriller

February 2016

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine

Hap and Leonard

Joe R. Lansdale

Short Stories · Thriller

March 11, 2016

Joel Sorrell #2

Sonata of the Dead

Conrad Williams

Thriller

July 4, 2016

The Death House

Sarah Pinborough

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult · Thriller

February 24, 2015

Cellar #1

The Cellar

Natasha Preston

Psychological Thriller · Young Adult · Mystery · Thriller

2014

Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets

David Thomas Moore

Fantasy · Anthology · Mystery · Thriller

October 2014

The Galaxy Club

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Thriller

February 2014

Triage X #5

Triage X: Volume 5

Shouji Sato

Thriller · Comics

January 2014

Triage X #4

Triage X: Volume 4

Shouji Sato

Thriller · Comics

October 29, 2013

Triage X #3

Triage X: Volume 3

Shouji Sato

Thriller · Comics

June 25, 2013

Triage X #2

Triage X: Volume 2

Shouji Sato

Thriller · Comics

February 26, 2013

Mila 2.0 #1

Mila 2.0

Debra Driza

Science Fiction · Young Adult · Thriller

March 7, 2013

Stone Barrington #24

Severe Clear

Stuart Woods

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

September 18, 2012

Kill Decision

Daniel Suarez

Science Fiction · Thriller

July 2012

Dominion

C. J. Sansom

Spy Thriller · Alternate History · Thriller

2012