The 30 Best Thriller Books to Read Next

If you’ve seen the movie but haven’t gotten around to reading the book, now’s your chance. When a suburban housewife Amy Dunne suddenly goes missing, her shady and evasive husband Nick becomes the first suspect in her suspected murder.

This one hardly needs an introduction. Big Little Lies follows a group of women as they deal with abusive husbands, family secrets, school scandals, and tragic murders.

Forty years after Harriet Vanger’s disappearance, a journalist and computer hacker team up to investigate (what they believe to be) her murder.

Over the course of his career, Stephen King has brought us killer clowns, murderous fans, and, of course, haunted hotels. When Jack Torrance takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, he becomes possessed by the building’s supernatural forces.

Speaking of Stephen King, Misery is another essential read. When Paul gets into a near-fatal car accident, he’s rescued by his “number one fan” Annie. She then becomes his captor and keeps him imprisoned for weeks in her secluded home.

The infamous Charles Manson murders are front and center in Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. And this one gives an insider account—one of the book’s authors, Vincent Bugliosi, was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial.

Widely regarded as one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, In Cold Blood tells the story of four members of a family who were murdered in 1950s Kansas.

Before her untimely death in 2016, Michelle McNamara became enamored with a man whom she dubbed “the Golden State Killer.” I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is the result of her search for the enigmatic predator.

Dr. John Hammond creates a theme park where genetically cloned dinosaurs roam. When he invites his family and fellow scientists to tour the facility, things quickly go awry.

An Italian crime family—headed by the patriarch Vito Corleone—fights to stay on top in the years following World War II. As a bonus, the 50th-anniversary edition includes an introduction by the film’s director Francis Ford Coppola.

Get to know the real-life story behind the gangsters in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family tracks the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate who later turns into an informant.

Psycho follows Norman Bates while he works as a caretaker of an isolated motel and deals with the tumultuous and strange relationship that he has with his mother.

If you’ve seen the film directed by David Fincher, then you’ll love the book, which features exclusive content like the unreleased letters that the Zodiac Killer left behind.

Known as “The Angel of Death,” registered nurse Charlie Cullen was responsible for the death of hundreds of his patients. The Good Nurse includes wiretap recordings, interviews with informants, and never-before-seen police records. After reading the book, check out the Netflix film adaptation starring Jessica Chastain.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein conducts an experiment to create a sentient being, the creature he makes ends up being more grotesque and sinister than he could have imagined.

Though Colson Whitehead is mostly known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, he’s also dabbled in other genres. After a plague takes over lower Manhattan, a man named Mark and two other civilians are tasked with clearing Chinatown of remaining zombies.

In this classic novella, legal practitioner Gabriel Utterson investigates a series of unusual incidents between his old friend Dr. Jekyll and a killer criminal Mr. Hyde. However, he soon realizes that Jekyll and Hyde are one and the same.

Tom Ripley meets a wealthy man who hires him to bring his son Dickie back from Italy. But while on assignment, Tom soon becomes obsessed.

An FBI trainee named Clarice Starling enlists the help of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in order to track down an infamous serial killer.

In his memoir, the former stockbroker Jordan Belfort takes you behind the scenes of his time as a sleazy entrepreneur. Be prepared for a story filled with greed, capitalism, drugs, and power.