8 Best suspense books like Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) by Josh Malerman

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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

By: Josh Malerman

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person…

"Your baby is smarter than you think."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Your baby is smarter than you think."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

If you liked the suspense plot in Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) by Josh Malerman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sometimes dead is better"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"Well, cats live as long as dogs,"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"A man who lies about beer makes enemies"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch."

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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2. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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3. A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

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4. Carrie

By: Stephen King

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior pr… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Carrie book and Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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6. It

By: Stephen King

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was ju… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

8. 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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9. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

By: Max Brooks

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of… read more

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10. 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 Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • audiobook
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"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

11. The Silence

By: Tim Lebbon

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt b… read more

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12. The Shining

By: Stephen King

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-s… read more

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13. 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 Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

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14. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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15. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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16. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

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17. The Cabin at the End of the World

By: Paul Tremblay

3.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet N… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too many people have smiles that don’t mean what a smile is supposed to mean."

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough."

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"No matter how bleak or dire, end-of-the-world scenarios appeal to us because we take meaning from the end... there's also undeniable allure to witnessing the beginning of the end and perishing alone …"

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"They share another long look. This one is reserved for ill-fated observers in the moments before impending, inescapable calamity, whether it be natural disaster or violent failure of humanity; a look…"

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

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18. 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 Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of You (You, #1) by Caroline Kepnes

19. You (You, #1)

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works,… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Kepnes's You (You, #1) book and Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we’re too old to be young."

-Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)

"You're so clean that you're dirty."

-Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)

"The problem with books is that they end."

-Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)

"In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me."

-Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)

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20. Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

By: Josh Malerman

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) book and Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

  • audiobook
  • post apocalyptic
  • suspense
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"Your baby is smarter than you think."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"You are saving their lives for a life not living."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Some people choose to wait for news and others make their own."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

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21. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

17 must-read fiction books like Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) by Josh Malerman

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Stephen King

4.07

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Joe Hill

3.84

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A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

3.79

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Stephen King

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Nick Cutter

3.42

Little Heaven

Nick Cutter

3.85

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