Dark and tense books
Books whose reading profiles include both a dark tone and tension or suspense.
578 book guides · Showing 433–480
3rd Degree
James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Effort 20/100
Summer Knight
Jim Butcher
Effort 40/100
The Fever Code
James Dashner
Effort 39/100
Exile
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 33/100
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Effort 51/100
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Effort 39/100
City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare
Effort 48/100
The Ruins
Scott Smith
Effort 30/100
The Toll
Neal Shusterman
Effort 67/100
White Night
Jim Butcher
Effort 39/100
Tiamat's Wrath
James S. A. Corey
Effort 68/100
The Icebound Land
John Flanagan
Effort 32/100
Blood of the Fold
Terry Goodkind
Effort 59/100
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Effort 66/100
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Effort 43/100
Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen
Effort 29/100
A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie
Effort 30/100
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
Effort 27/100
Medea
Euripides
Effort 47/100
Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card
Effort 55/100
Snuff
Terry Pratchett
Effort 44/100
James
Percival Everett
Effort 47/100
Death Masks
Jim Butcher
Effort 42/100
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Effort 50/100
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Effort 66/100
Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Effort 65/100
NOS4A2
Joe Hill
Effort 45/100
Friday Night Lights
Buzz Bissinger
Effort 43/100
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
Effort 59/100
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Effort 41/100
The 5th Horseman
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Effort 27/100
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
Effort 21/100
The Wager
David Grann
Effort 30/100
Changes
Jim Butcher
Effort 49/100
Crocodile Tears
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 21/100
Rubicon
Tom Holland
Effort 45/100
Soul of the Fire
Terry Goodkind
Effort 55/100
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Effort 64/100
Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez
Effort 42/100
Turn Coat
Jim Butcher
Effort 48/100
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
Effort 60/100
Four Blind Mice
James Patterson
Effort 26/100
The Halfling's Gem
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 30/100
Small Favor
Jim Butcher
Effort 44/100
Deathwatch
Robb White
Effort 17/100
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Effort 60/100
Ghost Story
Jim Butcher
Effort 48/100
