#Mystery

8 books tagged with mystery, sorted by rating.

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

5/5

fiction fantasy

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

5/5

fiction

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

4/5

fiction

Ring

by Koji Suzuki

4/5

horror

Leviathan Wakes

by James S.A. Corey

4/5

sci-fi

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

fiction

We Were Liars

by E. Lockhart

4/5

young-adult fiction

The Maze Runner

by James Dashner

3/5

young-adult sci-fi

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

5/5

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building. Its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands of statues. Within it are an ocean, clouds, and tides. Piranesi lives there, cataloguing its wonders. But when messages begin to appear, he must unravel the mystery of who he is and how he came to be there.

fiction fantasy

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

5/5

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. Kya Clark is the abandoned girl who raised herself in the dangerous marshlands, becoming an expert naturalist. When the local star quarterback is found dead, the community immediately suspects her.

fiction

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

4/5

A failed bank robber locks himself in a Swedish apartment with eight strangers during an open house viewing. As the police surround the building, the hostages and their bumbling captor begin to connect in the most unexpected ways. A poignant comedy about the enduring human capacity for compassion.

fiction

Ring

by Koji Suzuki

4/5

After four teenagers die simultaneously of heart failure, journalist Asakawa discovers they all watched a mysterious videotape exactly one week before their deaths. His investigation into the tape's origin leads to the vengeful spirit of Sadako. The novel that launched J-horror as a global phenomenon.

horror

Leviathan Wakes

by James S.A. Corey

4/5

Humanity has colonized the solar system, but tensions between Earth, Mars, and the Belt are reaching a breaking point. When a missing-person case and a derelict ship converge, detective Miller and Captain Holden uncover a conspiracy that threatens all of human civilization.

sci-fi

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

fiction

We Were Liars

by E. Lockhart

4/5

Cadence Sinclair Eastman comes from a beautiful, wealthy family that summers on a private island. But something happened during her fifteenth summer — something she can't remember. As fragments of memory return, the truth proves more devastating than she could have imagined.

young-adult fiction

The Maze Runner

by James Dashner

3/5

Thomas wakes up in a mysterious elevator with no memory, finding himself in the Glade — a community of boys surrounded by an ever-changing, monster-filled maze. To survive and escape, he must piece together his forgotten past and solve the maze's deadly puzzle.

young-adult sci-fi