Dark and tense books
Books whose reading profiles include both a dark tone and tension or suspense.
578 book guides · Showing 385–432
Hell House
Richard Matheson
Effort 27/100
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
Effort 52/100
The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket
Effort 21/100
The Poison Jungle
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 43/100
Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 51/100
Psycho
Robert Bloch
Effort 35/100
Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
Effort 44/100
The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket
Effort 21/100
Scorpia
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 26/100
The Slippery Slope
Lemony Snicket
Effort 38/100
Fool Moon
Jim Butcher
Effort 20/100
Count Zero
William Gibson
Effort 58/100
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Effort 48/100
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Effort 51/100
The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket
Effort 38/100
The Vile Village
Lemony Snicket
Effort 31/100
The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket
Effort 31/100
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Effort 51/100
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Effort 62/100
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket
Effort 53/100
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Effort 54/100
One Second After
William R. Forstchen
Effort 28/100
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
Effort 26/100
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 55/100
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Effort 42/100
Pop Goes the Weasel
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox
Effort 36/100
The 57 Bus
Dashka Slater
Effort 33/100
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Effort 34/100
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Effort 36/100
The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen
Effort 35/100
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 40/100
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Effort 70/100
The Carnivorous Carnival
Lemony Snicket
Effort 42/100
Roadwork
Stephen King
Effort 39/100
Sold
Patricia McCormick
Effort 26/100
The Outsider
Stephen King
Effort 46/100
Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs
Effort 50/100
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Effort 46/100
Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 20/100
Snakehead
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 21/100
Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović
Effort 24/100
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Effort 28/100
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Effort 48/100
Double Cross
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Effort 63/100
Stone of Tears
Terry Goodkind
Effort 67/100
Antigone
Sophocles
Effort 40/100
