27 must-read thriller books like Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle

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Kill Monster

By: Sean Doolittle

3.61

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the Steamship Arcadia from a Kansas corn fiel…

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Cover of Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1) by David Baldacci

1. Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

By: David Baldacci

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

He did not force the door open. He was in no hurry. When Amos Decker returned home to find the b… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light."

-David Baldacci, Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

"Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget."

-David Baldacci, Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

"But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit."

-David Baldacci, Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

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2. Midnight Mass

By: F. Paul Wilson

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

4. The Crimson Campaign (Powder Mage, #2)

By: Brian McClellan

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

The hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a… read more

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5. Banana Hammock

By: J.A. Konrath

3.22

Format: 224 pages,

Private Detective Harry McGlade is hired by an Amish woman who suspects her husband is cheating on … read more

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6. 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

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

7. The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage, #3)

By: Brian McClellan

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The capital has fallen... Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the f… read more

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8. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

12. The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look li… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The 6:20 Man (The 6:20 Man, #1)

By: David Baldacci

4.13

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and b… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21) by Douglas Preston

15. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21)

By: Douglas Preston

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Con… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

16. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Cover of The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) by Craig Johnson

17. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18) by Craig Johnson

18. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Treasure State (Cassie Dewell, #5; Highway Quartet, #6) by C.J. Box

19. Treasure State (Cassie Dewell, #5; Highway Quartet, #6)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box's Treasure Stat… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Violence

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generati… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

21. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes

3.85

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"I'm afraid I was buried in thought. Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'...."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

Cover of Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

22. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

23. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lightning Rod (Escape Artist, #2) by Brad Meltzer

24. The Lightning Rod (Escape Artist, #2)

By: Brad Meltzer

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Zig and Nola are back--in the hugely entertaining, highly anticipated follow-up to Brad Meltzer's #… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

25. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

26. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Sanctuary

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

3.55

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owne… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

28. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

Cover of Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

29. Before the Fall

By: Noah Hawley

3.72

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s hard to be sad when you’re being useful."

-Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

"We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough"

-Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

"Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer."

-Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

"...people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths..."

-Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

30. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle

31. Kill Monster

By: Sean Doolittle

3.61

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the Steamship Arcadia from a Kansas corn fiel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

27 best-selling fiction books like Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle

Transform Your Habits

Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

David Baldacci

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Midnight Mass

F. Paul Wilson

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Troop

Nick Cutter

3.84

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21 Best fiction books like The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

Transform Your Habits

The Exchange

John Grisham

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

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