The Godfather

Mario Puzo, Robert Thompson, Peter Bart

★ 4.4

1969

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

★ 4.1

2007

Defending Jacob

William Landay

★ 4.0

2012

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

★ 4.1

2003

Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)

Ally Carter

★ 3.9

2010

In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware

★ 3.6

2015

The Racketeer

John Grisham

★ 3.8

2012

Judge & Jury

James Patterson, Andrew Gross

★ 4.0

2006

Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society, #2)

Ally Carter

★ 4.2

2011

Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger

★ 4.1

2013

Angels Fall

Nora Roberts

★ 4.0

2006

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)

Alan Bradley

★ 4.0

2010

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

Diane Chamberlain

★ 4.1

2006

The City & the City

China Miéville

★ 3.9

2009

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Jeffrey Archer

★ 4.0

1976

Beach Road

James Patterson, Peter de Jonge

★ 3.8

2006

The Good Guy

Dean Koontz

★ 3.8

1989

The Bad Place

Dean Koontz

★ 3.9

1989

The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)

Jasper Fforde

★ 3.9

2005

Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

Louise Penny

★ 4.3

2010

Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10)

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

★ 4.1

2010

The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)

Louise Penny

★ 4.2

2009

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce, #4)

Alan Bradley

★ 4.1

2011

Perfect Scoundrels (Heist Society, #3)

Ally Carter

★ 4.3

2013

Frog Music

Emma Donoghue

★ 3.1

2014

Kraken

China Miéville

★ 3.6

2010

Creation in Death (In Death, #25)

J.D. Robb

★ 4.3

2007

The Weight of Blood

Laura McHugh

★ 3.7

2014

2666

Roberto Bolaño

★ 4.2

2004

The Gate House

Nelson DeMille

★ 3.7

2008

Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)

Kathy Reichs

★ 3.9

2012

Low Pressure

Sandra Brown, Stephen Lang

★ 3.9

2012

Lorna Doone

R.D. Blackmore, Michelle Allen

★ 3.7

1869

Smoke Screen

Sandra Brown

★ 4.0

2008

I Am the Cheese

Robert Cormier

★ 3.7

1977

The Chase (Isaac Bell, #1)

Clive Cussler

★ 3.9

2007

Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown #1)

Josh Bazell

★ 3.8

2008

Turn of Mind

Alice LaPlante

★ 3.6

2011

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

★ 3.4

2015

Broken Grace

E.C. Diskin

★ 3.9

2015

Most Wanted

Lisa Scottoline

★ 3.6

2016

I'll Walk Alone

Mary Higgins Clark

★ 3.8

2011

Half Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

★ 3.6

2011

An Innocent Client

Scott Pratt

★ 4.2

2008

Elizabeth Street

Laurie Fabiano

★ 3.9

2006

Apathy and Other Small Victories

Paul Neilan

★ 3.8

2006

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

★ 4.0

2020

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

★ 4.0

1965

Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger

★ 4.0

1961

Native Son

Richard Wright

★ 4.0

1940

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

★ 4.0

2010

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

★ 4.1

2012

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood, Brigitte Walitzek

★ 4.0

1996

The Regulators

Richard Bachman, Stephen King

★ 3.6

1996

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

★ 4.1

1846

Master of the Game

Sidney Sheldon

★ 4.1

1982

The Whistler

John Grisham

★ 3.9

2016

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe, Byron Glaser, Bill D. Fountain

★ 4.2

1843

Rage of Angels

Sidney Sheldon

★ 3.9

1980

A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #5)

Agatha Christie

★ 4.0

1950

The Seven-Percent Solution

Nicholas Meyer

★ 4.1

1974

V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)

Sue Grafton

★ 3.9

2011

Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

Jacqueline Winspear

★ 4.0

2004

Long Lost (Myron Bolitar #9)

Harlan Coben

★ 3.9

2009

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton

★ 3.8

1975

A Case of Need

Jeffery Hudson, Michael Crichton

★ 3.6

1968

The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson

★ 3.9

1952

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

★ 4.3

2012

The Fuck-Up

Arthur Nersesian

★ 3.6

1997

Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi

★ 4.1

1985

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum, Philip Gabriel

★ 3.9

1997

La Carte et le territoire

Michel Houellebecq

★ 3.9

2010

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden

★ 3.8

2022

The Maid

Nita Prose

★ 3.4

2019

The Perfect Marriage

Jeneva Rose

★ 3.1

2020

The Keeper

Tana French

2026

Dirty Metal

Allison LaMothe

★ 4.0

2026