16 best-selling thriller books like Foe by Iain Reid

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Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. …

"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

If you liked the thriller plot in Foe by Iain Reid , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

2. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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3. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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4. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

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5. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • adult
  • fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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6. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

Similar categories in Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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7. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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8. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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9. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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10. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

Similar categories in Naben Ruthnum's Helpmeet book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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11. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Foe by Iain Reid

12. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's Foe book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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13. 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

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • 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

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

14. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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15. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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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

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • 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. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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18. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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 Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

Similar categories in Amber Tamblyn's Any Man book and Iain Reid's Foe

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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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

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Iain Reid's Foe

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

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