14 must-read thriller books like Misery by Stephen King, Robin Waterfield

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Misery

By: Stephen King , Robin Waterfield

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Simplified adaptation with language-learning materials. [Penguin Readers Level 6] Paul Sheldon …

"I am your number one fan."

-Stephen King, Misery

"I am your number one fan."

-Stephen King, Misery

"I'm your number one fan - Annie Wilkes"

-Stephen King, Misery

"I'm your number one fan - Annie Wilkes"

-Stephen King, Misery

If you liked the thriller plot in Misery by Stephen King, Robin Waterfield , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

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2. Misery

By: Stephen King

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition . Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his bigges… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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3. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • 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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4. Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"Despair has its own calms."

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

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5. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • 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

6. 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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7. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • 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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8. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

9. The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

By: Thomas Harris

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator w… read more

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10. Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

By: Thomas Harris

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Will Graham stands in a silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a gift … read more

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11. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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12. The Green Mile: The Screenplay

By: Stephen King , Frank Darabont

4.66

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Tells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the g… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

13. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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14. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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15. 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

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • novels
  • 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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16. 1984

By: George Orwell

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother i… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Power is not a means; it is an end."

-George Orwell, 1984

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

-George Orwell, 1984

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."

-George Orwell, 1984

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

-George Orwell, 1984

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17. Tender Is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Carcass."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"She had the human look of a domesticated animal."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"un matadero debería ignorarse, fundirse con el paisaje y nunca llamarse por lo que realmente es."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"No entiendo por qué nos parece atractiva la sonrisa de una persona. Con la sonrisa uno está mostrando el esqueleto"."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

Cover of Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton

18. Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

4.11

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Welcome...to Jurassic Park!"

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

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19. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Cover of Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) by Josh Malerman

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

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

Cover of The Da Vinci Code: The Young Adult Adaptation by Dan       Brown

21. The Da Vinci Code: The Young Adult Adaptation

By: Dan Brown

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The greatest conspiracy of the past 2,000 years is about to unravel. Robert Langdon, professor o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

16 Best fiction books like Misery by Stephen King, Robin Waterfield

Transform Your Habits

Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Misery

Stephen King

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Regulators

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Dracula

Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

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Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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