Dark and tense books
Books whose reading profiles include both a dark tone and tension or suspense.
578 book guides · Showing 145–192

A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 60/100

The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 35/100

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Effort 32/100

Christine
Stephen King
Effort 47/100

God of Wrath
Rina Kent
Effort 28/100

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
Effort 75/100

Hooked
Emily McIntire
Effort 23/100

Too Late
Colleen Hoover
Effort 21/100

A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
Effort 82/100

Eldest
Christopher Paolini
Effort 58/100

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
Effort 27/100

Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King
Effort 74/100

The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
Effort 32/100

A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Effort 72/100

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris
Effort 25/100

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson
Effort 22/100

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 60/100

The Locked Door
Freida McFadden
Effort 24/100

Firestarter
Stephen King
Effort 41/100

White Fang
Jack London
Effort 29/100

After We Collided
Anna Todd
Effort 43/100

Allegiant
Veronica Roth
Effort 48/100

Glass Sword
Victoria Aveyard
Effort 37/100

The Waste Lands
Stephen King
Effort 53/100

The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
Effort 46/100

Suicide Med
Freida McFadden
Effort 33/100

Othello
William Shakespeare
Effort 58/100

Refugee
Alan Gratz
Effort 33/100

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Effort 44/100

The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Effort 28/100

The Girl in Room 105
Chetan Bhagat
Effort 22/100

Thinner
Stephen King
Effort 25/100

God of Fury
Rina Kent
Effort 28/100

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Effort 29/100

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
Effort 34/100

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Effort 43/100

Defy Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 46/100

The Queen of Nothing
Holly Black
Effort 40/100

Little Stranger
Leigh Rivers
Effort 18/100

Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 19/100

The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 29/100

Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard
Effort 27/100

Different Seasons
Stephen King
Effort 46/100

The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Effort 27/100

The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber
Effort 40/100

Rose Madder
Stephen King
Effort 45/100

The Burning Maze
Rick Riordan
Effort 32/100

Four Past Midnight
Stephen King
Effort 39/100