Recs if you like The Perfect Marriage...

| 2026 | every summer after: june 10 the odyssey: july 17 verity: october 2 sense & sensibility: october 16 sunrise on the reaping: november 20 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

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 💕

A curated collection of stories told through cracks, mirrors, and shifting truths. These narrators bend memory, distort reality, and reshape the world to fit their own needs. Some lie with intention, others with fear, and some simply because the truth is too heavy to hold. These are the books that linger. The ones that make you question what you know. The ones you leave and don’t really know what just happened.

Thrillers I read or want to read. Variety of authors.

Suspense & Thrillers

red herring: 1. a dried smoked herring, which is turned red by the smoke. 2. a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting. these will make you go on a fishing expedition, if you will. this list will feature books highlighting the second definition.

As the title suggests, this list of books is recommended on the purely bad vibes. I think the sentiment "If I had to read it, so do you" is what applies here.

This is not to say they are atrociously bad. Some will make you sob your eyes out, some will make you throw the book out the window of a moving vehicle, all of them will make you say What the F***.

Mystery and thriller reads planned for 2026

It takes a strong reader to admit that they liked a Colleen Hoover book- but if that book is Verity, and you read another CoHo book for more thriller romance, you might be realizing that's not usually her cup of tea. So read these books instead.

duologies from every Genre you can quickly finish

Some books stay with us for a lifetime. These are the stories that have made millions laugh, cry, and think—over and over again. Welcome to a celebration of the most beloved books of all time.

Trying to expand my reading palate so I got recs from TikTok

my favourite sub-genre. You'll find Gillian Flynn & Nick Hornby here. I haven't read all of these, so correct me if I'm wrong.

So when i recommending this to my mutual i can remind them about the troupe

Next on the list to read