Recs if you like Not Quite Dead Yet...

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

If you’re here, like me you might be tired of basically seeing the same plots and storylines over and over. This is a list of ones I’ve enjoyed that are all (mostly) different from each other*. Main thing in common might be the author.

*Can’t guarantee there aren’t similar types of twists/reveals lol.

Ya mystery books

Your Pip-shaped hole deserves nothing less than full-blown mystery mayhem. This list is a survival guide for readers who've finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and are hunting for their next high-stakes obsession with amateur sleuth energy, buried secrets, unlikely sidekicks and adrenaline-fueled twists that demand binge-reading.

Books that take place in New England.

All hail our Lorax style mouthpiece Mr. Noah Kahan.

If you love thriller/mistery you should definitely try at least one of her books

yeah these are just books i really liked okay (the thrashers is like an honorable mention..not on the same level of peak as the rest but good enough to make it)

Thrillers & mysteries that will keep you guessing until the end

Mysteries and thrillers waiting to keep me guessing.

Mystery and thriller reads planned for 2026

Books that will wrench your heart open but leave you wanting for more. Symptoms after reading these books

1. A lot of crying (probably, most probably)

So I noticed that there are heaps of Starter Packs on Quests, but NO YA STARTER PACKS!!!! So here you go, sit back, relax, and enjoy this curation of no-specific-genre YA books!! I'm only including the first book of a series (unless it's a spin-off!!)