The Best Mystery Books to Read Next

Mystery earns its reputation the hard way — a bad one is just a plot with padding, a good one makes you cancel plans. These are the ones that made that trade worth it, from lighter cozy mysteries to books that mess with how much you trust the narrator.

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

The twist that made an entire generation stop trusting narrators.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most memorable characters in modern thrillers.

Cover of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

The blueprint for basically every locked-room mystery that came after it.

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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

One of the cleanest final-page twists in recent thriller writing.

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Equal parts courtroom mystery and love letter to the natural world.

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The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

The definition of a book you cannot put down, chapter after chapter.

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The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The book that basically invented dark academia as a vibe.

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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Sharp, funny, and surprisingly moving underneath the domestic-drama surface.

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The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A love letter to books and libraries wrapped in a genuine mystery.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

A genuinely different way of seeing the world, told with real warmth.

Cover of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

Proof that a mystery can be genuinely clever and genuinely cozy at once.

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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Flynn's darkest and most unsettling book, which is saying something.

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In the Woods

Tana French

A mystery that cares more about psychology than tidy answers.

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Strange, beautiful, and unlike almost anything else you've read.

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Old-school gothic horror with a sharp, modern point of view.

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