Dark and tense books
Books whose reading profiles include both a dark tone and tension or suspense.
578 book guides · Showing 97–144
Your Fault
Mercedes Ron
Effort 30/100
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
Effort 35/100
The Wicked King
Holly Black
Effort 43/100
Reckless
Lauren Roberts
Effort 37/100
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani
Effort 27/100
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Effort 46/100
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Effort 43/100
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
Effort 36/100
Cujo
Stephen King
Effort 34/100
The Long Walk
Stephen King
Effort 35/100
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
Effort 49/100
1st to Die
James Patterson
Effort 28/100
Brutal Prince
Sophie Lark
Effort 22/100
Crank
Ellen Hopkins
Effort 33/100
God of Malice
Rina Kent
Effort 28/100
Cell
Stephen King
Effort 21/100
Under the Dome
Stephen King
Effort 49/100
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Effort 33/100
Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer
Effort 44/100
Restore Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 54/100
The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden
Effort 25/100
Insurgent
Veronica Roth
Effort 44/100
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Effort 43/100
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
Koyoharu Gotouge
Effort 7/100
Bared to You
Sylvia Day
Effort 23/100
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
Effort 40/100
Solitaire
Alice Oseman
Effort 30/100
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Effort 47/100
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell
Effort 39/100
World War Z
Max Brooks
Effort 51/100
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
Effort 45/100
Needful Things
Stephen King
Effort 50/100
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 55/100
Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 45/100
Heir of Fire
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 56/100
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Effort 57/100
Killing Floor
Lee Child
Effort 22/100
Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King
Effort 25/100
Playground
Aron Beauregard
Effort 23/100
Deception Point
Dan Brown
Effort 27/100
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Effort 36/100
Corrupted Chaos
Shain Rose
Effort 23/100
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 54/100
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
Effort 38/100
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Effort 41/100
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Effort 52/100
Queen of Shadows
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 59/100
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
Effort 40/100
