No Spoilers Allowed: The Best Plot Twist Books

Again, no spoilers here, but this galactic space adventure takes some unexpected turns. Andy Weir, the bestselling author of The Martian, delivers another perfect science-based interstellar ride. The only hope for humanity rests with Dr. Ryland Grace — if only he could remember his mission. What could go wrong?

Someone is dead, but nobody is talking. That’s the basis for this web of lies (some little, some big) featuring a captivating cast of characters that is sure to hook readers with suspense. As personal journeys get wrapped up in the drama and suspicion, this story hits a crescendo that will delight all the way to the end.

Twisty is exactly what you want from a thriller, and it’s hard to get any twistier than The Housemaid, which takes you for a ride. You’ll zig and zag throughout, and when you’re done you’ll quickly seek out McFadden’s follow-up, The Housemaid’s Secret.

Alex Michaelides has created one of the most engrossing thrillers in his debut work, The Silent Patient. As our unreliable narrator guides us through a gruesome murder and chilling revelations, we quickly learn that not everything is quite as it seems.

Revealing the darkness that lies behind glittering opulence, this locked-room mystery at sea will keep you awash in suspicion until the very end.

One of the most famous locked-room mysteries of all time, Murder on the Orient Express is a gripping tale of death and deceit from one of our greatest authors.

Gillian Flynn’s encore performance to Gone Girl, Sharp Objects puts the spotlight on Camille, a reporter with an assignment that is way too close to home. As she grapples with the darkness of her mind, as well as her sinister teenage half-sister, the unrelenting tension builds to a twisting climax that must be read to be fully appreciated.

Nothing is quite what it seems in this psychological thriller that follows two U.S. Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient who wind up unveiling a nightmare world of CIA drug trials. You’ll have to read it more than once after the reveal.

Set on the remote Maine coast, The Only One Left straddles the line between suspense and horror while excavating deep family histories perpetuated by myth and rumor. It’s a tantalizing mystery with layers to peel back.

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize, this stream-of-consciousness story builds into a nightmarish chain of events that unravels between past and present.

Rippling with dark humor and creepily compelling, Otessa Moshfegh has created an unforgettable protagonist that you’ll immediately connect with. This is a story packed with surprises, completely unpredictable and abounding with empathy.

This slow build turns itself upside down for an unexpected ride that only intensifies as the plot progresses. After a writer steals an idea for a book, fact and fiction begin to blur, and you’ll start to question everything.

A can’t-miss domestic thriller beginning with a dinner party that spawns a spiral of increasingly wicked twists and surprises. There are plenty of lies, an abundance of deceipt, and the unravelling of a family caught in the middle.

If ever there was a book that defined Chuck Palahniuk in all of his unhinged brilliance, this is it. A gritty, grimy, oft-disturbing story that still manages to effectively explore mental health and masculinity.