Sometimes we all need an easy read. The best ones are actually about identity anyway. /thrillers, detective novels, true crime, dark academia
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Thrillers
Mystery
Complex and beautiful
Thrillers
Classical crime novels you can read in one night and analyze for weeks.
I asked myself, “So who's lying?” like a million of times
The Guest: A Novel
Here you can find a plot twist on a plot twist after a plot twist
The Therapist: A Novel
Who's lying?
None of This Is True: A Novel
True crime – if you were ever interested in what's going on inside those people minds
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
If I didn't know, I'd assume it was a nordic noir book
The Echo Man: A Novel
It's a history and true crime – probably one of the first and the best crime novels I've ever read
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
For the first time while reading a thriller, I had no theories!
When I Kill You: A Novel
Mystery
This is a fun read. I'm pretty sure I read it listening exclusively to Berlioz
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
Witty, but thought provoking. (Second book of a Thursday Murder Club series.)
The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
The humor in this one is probably the loudest and the darkest – in the best possible way. (Third book of a Thursday Murder Club series)
The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
The anxiety is off the chart with this one
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick
I had shivers and I don't even know why
Strange Pictures: A Novel
Complex and beautiful
Longer and more elaborate novels. The ones you'll need to spend some time with
It took Donna Tartt 10 years to write this book and you're about to acquire a new favorite author
The Secret History
Strike #1. This is my favorite series of detective novels ever written. They are complex, thought-through and addictive. Currently 8 books are out and I've never had enough. If you haven't read them, I envy you tremendously
The Cuckoo's Calling
Second book of a Cormorant Strike series, made me stick with it for the next 10 years
The Silkworm
Third book of a Cormorant Strike series Strike series
Career of Evil
Fourth book of a Cormorant Strike series
Lethal White
Seemingly impossible case to solve, but Strike still finds his way through human psyche
Troubled Blood
Creative, dark, artistic
The Ink Black Heart: A Cormoran Strike Novel
This was a hard one to read, for multiple reasons, but worth it.
The Running Grave: A Cormoran Strike Novel
A lot of people said this book is too complicated. But so far this is my favorite one from the whole series. I loved every moment of it, and I hope you will too
The Hallmarked Man: A Cormoran Strike Novel
It might be hard to keep up, but I hope you do
The Goldfinch
At first, made me dizzy and confused. At last, made me more dizzy and more confused
The Anomaly: A Novel
If you liked “The Secret History”, this book is very similar setting-wise
