The Most Popular Fiction Thriller Books

By Donald Sanders


When a story is told in the first-person point of view, the narrative can sometimes be limited to what that one individual character is thinking, feeling, or experiencing. The Girl on the Train is a book that avoids that problem by delegating the narrator role between three different characters. The fast pace and exciting storyline are what makes this one of the top-selling fiction thriller books.

It would be hard to find a person who read Gone Girl and didn't feel compelled to get all the way to the end to see what happens. This is a novel that uses an unreliable narrator to add to the element of suspense. Although it may not be a happy, feel-good tale, there is something satisfying about reading Gone Girl.

Nothing is better than taking a classic genre like the whodunnit and refashioning it for modern days. That's what is achieved in Into the Water. The story focuses on a series of drownings in a particular river.

Origin is a Dan Brown book that is a part of the famous Robert Langdon series. Readers will not be disappointed with this novel. It has just as much colorful historical details and thrilling plotlines as any of Brown's other great novels.

A lot of people have heard of The Da Vinci Code because of the popular movie starring Tom Hanks, but there are plenty who have never read the book. This is what many people call Dan Brown's finest novel. In it, he introduced his symbologist character that paves the way for a thrilling series.

Before I Go to Sleep is a book written by SJ Watson, and not only was his first novel a success, it was translated into many different languages and became popular around the world. This is one of the thrillers that gets to the reader on a very psychological level since the main character is experiencing a form of amnesia that makes it impossible to form new memories. All that she has to rely on to figure out what has been going on is her own journal, and the more she reads in it, the more she doubts that everything is as it seems.

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard is an interesting tale of deceit. When the protagonist gets caught up in a mischievous game gone awry, things get scary. This is the first book in the Lying Game series.

Out of Australia, Jane Harper is an author who has crafted a book that is mysterious and engaging in her very first work in this genre. The book is called The Dry, and it takes place in an Australian farming town of Harper's own invention. The plot is focused on the big secrets and conspiracies hidden in this seemingly innocent small town, as uncovered by a federal agent who has returned to his hometown for the funeral of a friend.




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