Books to shock you
Thousands of book community members have contributed to this survey so far, with these 78 books being the most frequently mentioned for books that left them surprised.
shocking book recommendations
books to leave you surprised
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie || Don't Let the Forest In - C G Drews || Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams || Lock Every Door - Riley Sager || Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn || The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji || The Last One- Will Dean || The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett || The Trees - Percival Everett || These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever || William - Mason Coile || The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks || The Fifth Season- NK Jemisin || Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough || Earthlings - Sayaka Murata || Hurricane season - Fernanda Melchor || No Exit - Taylor Adams || Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane || The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang || The Last Word - Taylor Adams || The Physicists - Friedrich Dürrenmatt || The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett || They Never Learn - Layne Fargo || Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAlistar || Liar- Justine Lorbalestier || The Bright Lands- John Fram || Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang || Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik || I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Ian Reid || Penpal by Dathan Auerbach || Stay Awake - Megan Goldin || The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark || The Last Word - Taylor Adams || The Poppy War - RF Kuang || The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica || Verity - Colleen Hoover || comfort me with apples - Catherine M. Valente || Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin || The Kiss of Deception- Mary E Pearson || Confessions - Kanae Minato || Fingersmith - Sarah Waters || Jade City - Fonda Lee || Piranesi by Susanna Clarke || Tender Is The Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica || The Examiner - Janice Hallett || The Mad Wife - Meagan Church || The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden || The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen || Walking Practice - Min Dolki || Perfume - Patrick Süskind || The Physicists- Friedrich Durrenmatt || We Were Liars- e. lockhart || Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney || Foe - Iain Reid || Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister || Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter || That's Not My Name - Megan Lally || The House Across the Lake - Riley Sager || The Membranes - Chi Ta-Wei || The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton || The Will of the Many - James Islington || We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler || The Last Mrs. Parrish- Liv Constantine || American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis || The Only One Left- Riley Sager || Dark Matter - Blake Crouch || Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn || Kill For Me, Kill For You - Steve Cavanaugh || Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte || The Bee Sting - Paul Murray || The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward || The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie || The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides || There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm || When the wolf comes home - Nat Cassidy || The Nickel Boys- Colson Whitehead || His & Hers- Alice Feeney ||
