Favorite Thrillers/Suspense Novels

[Doc Creed]

I apologize if people are weary of my unbridled interest in everyone's reading tastes and habits but I hope there are others equally enthusiastic about different genres and the path to developing and maintaining a personal library.
I want to know your favorite thrillers or any book that nearly killed you with suspense. Here are some that I remember reading like it was yesterday. (Some are horror, literary crossovers. A few of my favorites:

A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Drowning Ruth - Amanda Schwartz
The Collector - John Fowles
Deliverance - James Dickey
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
One Foot In Eden - Ron Rash
The Golden Egg - Tim Krabbe
Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

Please share some of yours. What kept you frantically turning pages past your bedtime?

 

[champ1966]

How many suspense authors does it take to change a light bulb?

Spoiler

two, one to put it in, and the other to give it a little twist at the end

 

[Doc Creed]

How many suspense authors does it take to change a light bulb?

Spoiler

two, one to put it in, and the other to give it a little twist at the end

 

[Doc Creed]

FYI: The King thrillers that I liked are Misery, Gerald's Game and The Dark Half.

 

[champ1966]

FYI: The King thrillers that I liked are Misery, Gerald's Game and The Dark Half.

I feel like I re-read The Dark Half, the last couple of days , trying to find that bloody cologne

 

[champ1966]

I think my favourites in this genre are detective books. So Mo Hayder's books would have to be up there:
Birdman
The Treatment
Tokyo
Pig Island
Ritual

 

[Doc Creed]

I feel like I re-read The Dark Half, the last couple of days , trying to find that bloody cologne

Bahahahahaha! Oh yeah...well, to give you a hint it's near the half way point, towards the climax. Thad gets a phone call from Stark at a convenience store. I think it is around this area.

 

[Doc Creed]

I think my favourites in this genre are detective books. So Mo Hayder's books would have to be up there:
Birdman
The Treatment
Tokyo
Pig Island
Ritual

When I worked at the library his name came up frequently. I'll try to look on Amazon for them. I think Danie recommended them, too. danie

 

[champ1966]

Bahahahahaha! Oh yeah...well, to give you a hint it's near the half way point, towards the climax. Thad gets a phone call from Stark at a convenience store. I think it is around this area.

I quite literally went all the way through on my kindle, then started again. I think I need therapy. I'll find it.

 

[champ1966]

When I worked at the library his name came up frequently. I'll try to look on Amazon for them. I think Danie recommended them, too. danie

Try looking in the female author section Doc, you might have more luck

 

[Doc Creed]

I quite literally went all the way through on my kindle, then started again. I think I need therapy. I'll find it.

sorry, bro...I think you'll find it now that I've given you a hint. I didn't mean to make it so challenging. I think different details stick with different readers for different reasons.

 

[Doc Creed]

Try looking in the female author section Doc, you might have more luck

My bad. That's one of those cases like people thinking Evelyn Waugh is a woman and Sidney Sheldon a woman.

 

[champ1966]

I'm getting the words....'Berol Black Beauty'.. I bet SK never had to buy one again

 

[Arcadevere]

John Grisham books, i love it actually. If you count it as thriller, i like Dan Brown Books too

 

[Doc Creed]

I'm getting the words....'Berol Black Beauty'.. I bet SK never had to buy one again

Yeah, it's funny how those details stick with you. I remember all kinds of name brands from his books, both real and fictional. The Dark Half is in my top 15 King books. When I first read it at 16 I couldn't get the phrase 'the sparrows are flying again' out of my head. I still remember a vivid nightmare that I had as a result. Loved it.

 

[Doc Creed]

My sleeping pill is kicking in...it's late here across the pond, haha. Good luck on finding the answer!

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Many on your list...and yeah, I'm with Champ, the cologne is driving me nuts. Heh! Stark used some Glenlivet on his face in the bathroom, thought that was it.
The Silent Wife, A.S.A. Harrison and many see comparisons here to
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Girl on the Train, Paul Hawkins

I really liked the telling in The Silent Wife, present tense for what that's worth, a back-and-forth narrative he said she said kind of thing, somewhat like the story I'm on now Hopeful Monsters just a tad of suspense in this one.

John Sandford's Prey Series
James Lee Burke
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (read this one if you haven't)
True Evil, Greg Iles
Jo Nesbo...Norwegian writer...or is he Danish?
Bunch of Koontz stories...Watchers, Night Chills, Phantoms, Strangers, Fear Nothing, Seize the Night

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I quite literally went all the way through on my kindle, then started again. I think I need therapy. I'll find it.

Are you looking for something specific? If so, use the search function and it will bring up every instance of when a particular word, name, city, etc. is used. I love the search function!

 

[GNTLGNT]

....some of my favorights!....

 

[mal]

I used to read R. Ludlum and L. Sanders back in the eighties or thereabouts. I quit when their books still came out under their brand after they died. I hope Mr. King does not have that happen to him.