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We\u2019ve officially reached the point in the season where my reading list feels\u2026stale. I\u2019ve started and abandoned three different books, only to find my mind wandering and my phone somehow back in my hand, pulling me into an accidental doomscroll<\/a>. Needless to say, I\u2019ve officially found myself in a reading slump<\/a>. Whenever I\u2019m struggling to find a book that keeps me turning the pages, there\u2019s one foolproof remedy I always come back to: gripping, twisty thriller books<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thankfully, my favorite source for book recommendations, Goodreads<\/a>, recently released a list of the most popular dark and twisty books readers have been loving so far this year. So, if you\u2019re ready to refresh your TBR list and find your next page-turner, here are the best thriller books and the best horror books of the year so far, according to Goodreads.<\/p>\n Looking for a five-star read in a different genre? Goodreads has even more recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n Debbie Mullen has been running a neighborly advice column, Dear Debbie, for the wives of New England for years. She\u2019s helped countless women through their struggles of being ignored, belittled, or abused by their husbands. Now, she\u2019s just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband has been keeping secrets. She\u2019s done being reasonable, practical, grounded. It\u2019s time to take her own advice and get back at all the people in her life who have wronged her.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Eden Fox is on the brink of artistic success when she returns to discover her home, Spyglass, is no longer her own. A strange woman answers the door. And her husband is insistent that this stranger is his wife. Six months earlier, reclusive Londoner Birdy inherits Spyglass from a long-lost grandmother. But when a shadowy London clinic predicts the date of her death, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. Secrets start to unravel, and the line between truth and lies blurs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes her husband Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can\u2019t find proof because he tracks her every move. Aubrey Price has been haunted by the terrible night that changed her life a decade ago, and she\u2019s convinced Benjamin Bayliss knows something about it. Aubrey and Camille hatch a plan. Aubrey will take Camille\u2019s place. Camille will spy on Ben, and the two women will get the answers they desperately seek. Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different \u201cagainst all odds\u201d survival story. Since their first episode on Joy\u2019s experience with severe narcolepsy, they\u2019ve been the best friends everyone wants to befriend. The problem is, their next survival story may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. Benny is desperate to Joy and her husband, even when the police soon zero in on him as their prime suspect.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Use code ‘TheEverygirl’ to get 3 books for the price of 1 with a new Libro.fm membership<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she\u2019s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn\u2019t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fianc\u00e9e Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty\u2019s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel\u2019s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n From the outside, Catharine West\u2019s childhood sounds idyllic\u2014balmy days spent running barefoot through the gardens, plucking ripe tomatoes straight from the vine as sunlight warmed her skin. For a time, Catharine\u2019s magnetic father was enough to keep the farm thriving and temptation outside its gates. But as she grew older, the farm and family she was raised to love faded into something darker, forcing Catharine to evolve with it. \u200bIt\u2019s now been a decade since Catharine abandoned the farm, and she has done her best to reinvent her life, until an email from a charismatic journalist interrupts her peace. Her first instinct is to ignore the stranger\u2019s prying questions\u2014whether she knew about a mysterious \u201ccult\u201d in central Florida, whether she is the same \u201cCatharine-with-an-A\u201d who lived there for a time. But when she realizes the journalist knows far more than he\u2019s letting on, she reconsiders. If Catharine can stay one step ahead of him, she may be able to find the one person she never wanted to leave behind\u2014her sister, Linna\u2014and make sure her own secrets remain buried too.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Lillian has a plan to lock her situationship, Henry, down. She\u2019ll be the best, most accommodating version of herself until he falls in love with her. But when Henry blindsides Lillian with a breakup, she\u2019s left with no choice but to exact revenge with a hex.<\/p>\n Lillian expects Henry to come crawling back to her, but instead, she becomes a prime suspect in his murder case when he\u2019s found dead. Desperate to control the narrative, clear her name, and assume her rightful place as Henry\u2019s mourning girlfriend, Lillian\u2019s pursuit of the truth will throw her into a dangerous tailspin, which<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he\u2019d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. When she arrives, Jane realizes she has a dark history with this house. The man who answers the door is cagey, and claims to know nothing about the missing teenage girl. Conjuring her memories from 25 years ago, Jane knows this unsettling house holds the key\u2014to the missing teenager, to her own traumatic story, and to the dark secrets of the past.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Want more Lisa Jewell?<\/strong> Read: I Read Every Popular Lisa Jewell Thriller\u2014Here\u2019s How They Rank<\/a><\/p>\n October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn\u2019t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to his father\u2019s new home in Japan. But something is terribly wrong with the house: a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window. One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n When Camille Deming isn\u2019t cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she\u2019s posting about her tradwife lifestyle for her online followers. She takes inspiration from other tradwives on social media, aspiring to be like them, but Camille\u2019s missing a key component: a baby. And contrary to what she posts online, things with her husband, Graham, have been strained. Pressured by her eager followers, Camille fears that without a baby, her relationship will suffer and her social media will never grow out of its infancy. When Camille discovers a mysterious, decrepit well in the wheatfield behind her house, she makes a wish for a baby. Afterward, she has unsettling experiences that she convinces herself are angelic in nature, and when she\u2019s visited one night by a strange creature, her wish comes true. Camille\u2019s pregnancy announcement gets more engagement than anything she\u2019s ever posted\u2014never mind that her pregnancy is developing freakishly rapidly and she\u2019s suddenly craving raw meat. Being a traditional wife is worth it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung\u2019s network reaches throughout the entire building. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds the real power. Until one, Dahye, sets herself apart from the rest. Dahye, ever the romantic, yearns to be cherished after years of living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, who tragically drowned years ago. Only her boyfriend seems to appreciate Dahye. He\u2019s rich, handsome, and generous\u2014and she\u2019d do anything to hold on to the happiness he brings her. But when a hidden camera scandal rocks the city\u2019s elites, Dahye\u2019s dreams of a fairy-tale romance twist into a grotesque nightmare. Her boyfriend abandons her. Her parents reject her. Her grip on reality begins to shatter as visions of her dead sister suddenly appear. And as Junyoung\u2019s interest in Dahye turns to obsession, and the truths of their troubled lives are revealed, Dahye must go to extreme lengths to bring the truth to light . . .<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Poppy Stringer was born to be a star. An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dealing dead bodies across Palm Springs. When her hero, the flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar Eddie Michaels, unexpectedly dies, Poppy gets a call to retrieve his body from the medical examiner\u2019s office for a lucrative sum. It could be the last job she\u2019ll ever need\u2014if everything goes to plan. But the night\u2019s delivery quickly veers off course when Eddie wakes up. Now Poppy must fight for her life if she hopes to survive this blood-soaked joyride of carnage and extravagant entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n window.fd(‘form’, { As an Associate Editor for The Everygirl, Lauren ideates and writes content for every facet of our readers\u2019 lives, from must-read books and behind-the-scenes interviews to beauty products she can\u2019t live without. When she isn\u2019t sitting in an AMC watching the latest buzzy release, she can be found scouring Goodreads for the perfect pick for The Everygirl Book Club<\/a>. There, she co-hosts discussions with members, debating plotlines, fancasting characters, and, of course, tossing in her own recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Products included in graphics linked within article.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0var skimlinks_settings = { The post The Best Thriller & Horror Books of the Year So Far, According to Goodreads<\/a> appeared first on The Everygirl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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