16 Top mystery books like The Outsider by Stephen King

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The Outsider

By: Stephen King

4.01

Format: 561 pages, Hardcover

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been str…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Outsider by Stephen King , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Blaze

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the Flap: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Blaze book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got."

-Stephen King, Blaze

"Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be …"

-Stephen King, Blaze

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2. Roadwork

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Roadwork book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"

-Stephen King, Roadwork

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3. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's NOS4A2 book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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4. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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5. The Regulators

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Regulators book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."

-Stephen King, The Regulators

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6. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Long Walk book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

7. The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson , None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more

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8. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Running Man book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

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9. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Troop book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

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10. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Thinner book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

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11. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

Similar categories in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

Cover of Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) by Richard  Chizmar

12. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Only One Left

By: Riley Sager

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Ho… read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's The Only One Left book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever."

-Riley Sager, The Only One Left

Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

14. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

16. How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

3.68

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

Cover of The Outsider by Stephen        King

17. The Outsider

By: Stephen King

4.01

Format: 561 pages, Hardcover

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been str… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Outsider book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

18. Hidden Pictures

By: Jason Rekulak

4.16

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young … read more

Similar categories in Jason Rekulak's Hidden Pictures book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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19. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

20. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

21. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Stephen King's The Outsider

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook

20 must-read fiction books like The Outsider by Stephen King

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Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

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Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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NOS4A2

Joe Hill

4.08

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Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill

3.84

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11 Top fiction books like Roadwork by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

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Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

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Stephen King

3.94

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