Mystery Books
Mystery fiction is structured around a central puzzle -- usually a crime -- that the reader is invited to solve alongside the protagonist. From cozy village whodunits to hardboiled noir, the genre runs on clues, red herrings, and the satisfaction of a well-constructed reveal.
188 books
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村上春樹
Thriller
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Mystery
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
Non-Fiction
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Young Adult
A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro
Absolution by Murder
Mystery
Absolution by Murder
Peter Tremayne
Thriller
All Is Not Forgotten
Wendy Walker
Mystery
All That Is Secret
Patricia Raybon
Thriller
American Tabloid
James Ellroy
Thriller
Among Thieves
Douglas Hulick
Mystery
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears
Mystery
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Thriller
Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney
Young Adult
Belladonna
Adalyn Grace
Mystery
Bittersweet
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Bluebeard's Castle
Mystery
Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller
Thriller
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll
Mystery
Broken Harbor
Tana French
Horror
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
Contemporary Fiction
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
Non-Fiction
Centennial
James Michener
Thriller
City on Fire
Don Winslow
Mystery
Clockers
Richard Price
Science Fiction
Company Town
Madeline Ashby
Non-Fiction
Count Zero
William Gibson
Thriller
Dare Me
Megan Abbott
Thriller
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
Mystery
Death Comes as Epiphany
Sharan Newman
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Mystery
Dissolution
C.J. Sansom
Mystery
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Deepa Anappara
Thriller
Does It Hurt
H. D. Carlton
Thriller
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Mystery
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson
Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Romance
Fallen
Lauren Kate
Young Adult
Family of Liars
E. Lockhart
Horror
Final Girls
Riley Sager
Thriller
Final Girls
Riley Sager
Thriller
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Thriller
First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston
Fantasy
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
Mystery
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg
Horror
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
Thriller
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Mystery
Gone for Good
Harlan Coben
Mystery
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Horror
Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak
Mystery
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin
Mystery
I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
Mystery
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
Thriller
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
Comedy
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Mystery
In the Woods
Tana French
Thriller
Killing Floor
Lee Child
Thriller
Labyrinth
Kate Mosse
Thriller
Lacy Eye
Jessica Treadway
Thriller
Long Bright River
Liz Moore
Crime
Magpie Murders
Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
Thriller
Missing You
Harlan Coben
Thriller
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Mystery
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Romance
My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier
Literary Fiction
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Thriller
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane
Thriller
Never Lie
Freida McFadden
Horror
Night Film
Marisha Pessl
Thriller
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
Thriller
One Good Deed
David Baldacci
Romance
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Young Adult
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Mystery
Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper
Young Adult
People Like Us
Dana Mele
Thriller
Pines
Blake Crouch
Mystery
Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard
Mystery
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Thriller
Reykjavik
Ragnar Jonasson
Thriller
Run Away
Harlan Coben
Fantasy
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
Thriller
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Hoeg
Mystery
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
Mystery
Still Life
Louise Penny
Thriller
Survivor
Dean Koontz
Mystery
The Appeal
Janice Hallett
Mystery
The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff
Thriller
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
Thriller
The Blue Zones
Andrew Gross
Thriller
The Boy from the Woods
Mystery
The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd
Non-Fiction
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Horror
The Chain
Adrian McKinty
Thriller
The Chalet
Catherine Cooper
The Cliffs
Literary Fiction
The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan
The Club Dumas
Thriller
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Thriller
The Codex
Douglas Preston
Thriller
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
Mystery
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Thriller
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Thriller
The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl
Mystery
The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
Horror
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
Thriller
The Eight
Katherine Neville
Mystery
The Flanders Panel
Mystery
The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton
Mystery
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins
Mystery
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
Thriller
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Thriller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Literary Fiction
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Mystery
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
Non-Fiction
The Gone World
Tom Sweterlitsch
Fantasy
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher
Mystery
The House on Biscayne Bay
Chanel Cleeton
Fantasy
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs
Thriller
The Hunting Party
Lucy Foley
Young Adult
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Mystery
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Comedy
The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead
Thriller
The It Girl
Ruth Ware
Mystery
The Jack Reacher Novels
Lee Child
Horror
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Literary Fiction
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
Mystery
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Stuart Turton
Thriller
The Last Templar
Raymond Khoury
Thriller
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Thriller
The Likeness
Tana French
Mystery
The Maid
Nita Prose
Thriller
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides
Thriller
The Match
Harlan Coben
Thriller
The Memory of Animals
Claire Fuller
Thriller
The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley
The Montalbano Series
Mystery
The Montalbano Series
Andrea Camilleri
Literary Fiction
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Young Adult
The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The New Couple in 5B
Thriller
The New Couple in 5B
Lisa Unger
Thriller
The New Girl
Daniel Silva
Thriller
The Omega Factor
Steve Berry
Horror
The Overnight
Ramsey Campbell
Thriller
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
Thriller
The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Mystery
The Redbreast
Jo Nesbo
Thriller
The Return of Ellie Black
Emiko Jean
Mystery
The Ritual
Shantel Tessier
Horror
The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud
Thriller
The Secret Place
Tana French
Mystery
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
Literary Fiction
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Horror
The Silence
Thomas Harris
Horror
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
Non-Fiction
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
The Spenser Series
Crime
The Spenser Series
Robert B. Parker
Mystery
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carre
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historical Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thriller
The Stranger in the Mirror
Liv Constantine
Mystery
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Thriller
The Twyford Code
Thriller
The Vatican Secret
David Leadbeater
Literary Fiction
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Literary Fiction
The Waterworks
E.L. Doctorow
Horror
The Whisper Man
Steve Mosby
Mystery
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Thriller
The Wolf of Sarajevo
Matthew Palmer
Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
Literary Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
Mystery
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Literary Fiction
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
Thriller
There There
Tommy Orange
Young Adult
They Wish They Were Us
Jessica Goodman
Mystery
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carre
Mystery
Tiny Pretty Things
Sona Charaipotra
Young Adult
Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson
Mystery
Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson
Thriller
Turn of Mind
Alice LaPlante
Young Adult
Two Can Keep a Secret
Karen M. McManus
Thriller
Unsolved
James Patterson
Mystery
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Thriller
Watching You
Lisa Jewell
Mystery
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Young Adult
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
Horror
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Young Adult
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Thriller
Where You End
Abbott Kahler
Literary Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Mystery
Winter Counts
Thriller
Zero Day
David Baldacci
