Dark and tense books
Books whose reading profiles include both a dark tone and tension or suspense.
578 book guides · Showing 529–576
Audition
Ryū Murakami
Effort 23/100
The Auctioneer
Joan Samson
Effort 32/100
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Effort 44/100
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
Effort 40/100
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan
Effort 46/100
Dead Man's Walk
Larry McMurtry
Effort 38/100
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
Effort 67/100
The Getaway
Jim Thompson
Effort 32/100
The Big Nowhere
James Ellroy
Effort 44/100
The Ax
Donald E. Westlake
Effort 27/100
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
Effort 72/100
The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
Effort 37/100
The Grifters
Jim Thompson
Effort 25/100
The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis
Effort 49/100
Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
Effort 35/100
Resurrection Dreams
Richard Laymon
Effort 23/100
Warlock
Oakley Hall
Effort 57/100
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
Effort 56/100
Milkman
Anna Burns
Effort 72/100
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Charles Willeford
Effort 34/100
The Man with the Getaway Face
Richard Stark
Effort 20/100
Miami Blues
Charles Willeford
Effort 25/100
The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
Effort 52/100
Funland
Richard Laymon
Effort 24/100
The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb
Effort 30/100
Dynasty
Tom Holland
Effort 49/100
Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama
Effort 44/100
The Outfit
Richard Stark
Effort 22/100
Freaky Deaky
Elmore Leonard
Effort 28/100
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 48/100
The Traveling Vampire Show
Richard Laymon
Effort 27/100
Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
Effort 65/100
Galveston
Nic Pizzolatto
Effort 26/100
A Hell of a Woman
Jim Thompson
Effort 40/100
Condominium
John D. MacDonald
Effort 41/100
The Hunter
Richard Stark
Effort 22/100
Cogan's Trade
George V. Higgins
Effort 41/100
Conquistador
Buddy Levy
Effort 40/100
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Effort 80/100
Mr. Majestyk
Elmore Leonard
Effort 17/100
After Dark, My Sweet
Jim Thompson
Effort 24/100
The Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara
Effort 51/100
In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides
Effort 46/100
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
Effort 42/100
Positively Fifth Street
James McManus
Effort 50/100
The Mourner
Richard Stark
Effort 21/100
The Score
Richard Stark
Effort 20/100
The White Cascade
Gary Krist
Effort 28/100
