Horror
Every horror author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Horror is written to unsettle, whether it creeps in quietly or comes straight for the throat. These series are best read with the lights on.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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Alex Michaelides
Alex Michaelides is a screenwriter and author who writes psychological thrillers. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University,...
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Jeneva Rose
Jeneva Rose writes psychological thrillers, suspense novels, and women's fiction. She made her debut as a novelist in 2020 with...
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Alice Feeney
Alice Feeney is a British author who writes psychological thrillers built on unreliable narrators, layered secrets, and endings that reframe...
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J.R. Ellis
J.R. Ellis is a Yorkshire-based author who writes murder mysteries. His Yorkshire Murder Mystery series is set against the backdrop...
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Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is an American suspense author who explores how ordinary lives fracture under the weight of secrets. She built...
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Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. She came to prominence in 2016 with the release of...
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Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey is a novelist who writes legal thrillers. His McMurtrie and Drake series has received multiple awards, with The...
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Riley Sager
Riley Sager is the pen name of American author Todd Ritter, who writes horror and thriller novels. His debut novel,...
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Tana French
Tana French is an American-Irish novelist and theater actress who brings her training in character and tension to psychological mystery....
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Jeanine Cummins
Jeanine Cummins is an American author best known for the novel American Dirt, a #1 New York Times bestseller that...
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Dot Hutchison
Dot Hutchison is an American author who writes adult thrillers and young adult novels. She is known for A Wounded...
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Boo Walker
Boo Walker is an American author who writes thrillers under the name Benjamin Blackmore, and also the novel An Unfinished...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Jane Harper
Jane Harper is an Australian author who writes crime novels. She was born in Manchester, UK, but her family moved...
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Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson is an English author who writes YA thrillers. Born in 1992 and raised in Buckinghamshire, she finished her...
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Jack Carr
Jack Carr writes military thrillers, hosts the Danger Close podcast, and co-authored the nonfiction work Targeted: Beirut, drawing all of...
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Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that excavates grief, family, and what it means to survive...
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Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray is a crime writer and journalist, best known for the Jessica Shaw series, which began in 2019 with...
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Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes is an English-Australian author of thriller novels and a screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, Hayes worked as a...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is a British novelist who writes thrillers that place ordinary people in impossible moral traps. Raised in Tamworth,...
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Matthew FitzSimmons
Matthew FitzSimmons writes thrillers, drawing on a transatlantic sensibility shaped by growing up between worlds, born in Illinois and raised...
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Julie Clark
Julie Clark is a novelist who grew up in Santa Monica, California, reading books on the beach. After attending college...
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Kerri Maniscalco
Kerri Maniscalco is an American author known for her romantasy novels, including the Stalking Jack the Ripper series and the...
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Jackie Kabler
Jackie Kabler is a British author who writes psychological thrillers and the Cora Baxter Mysteries series, bringing the sharp instincts...
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author who writes romantic comedies and has also published journalism in The New York Times,...
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Victoria Aveline
Victoria Aveline writes science fiction romance, creating worlds that explore a unique power dynamic within dominant relationships. She is known...
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David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter who reached readers worldwide with One Day, his 2009 novel about two...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner is an American author who writes historical fiction. Penner traded the ledgers of corporate finance for the shadowed...
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Elle Marr
Elle Marr writes psychological thrillers that explore dark secrets and paranoia. She graduated from UC San Diego before pursuing a...
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose fiction draws on the small-town Connecticut landscape where he grew up. Born and...
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Ania Ahlborn
Ania Ahlborn is a Polish-American author of horror and thriller novels, who made her debut in 2011 with Seed. Born...
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Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington is a British author who writes spy thrillers and is known for her Liz Carlyle series. She is...
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Simone St. James
Simone St. James is a Canadian author who writes historical ghost stories. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare,...
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan writes contemporary romance novels and non-fiction. Before focusing on writing, she worked as an investment banker and taught...
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Gilly Macmillan
Gilly Macmillan is an English author who writes crime fiction, mystery, and suspense novels. She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire,...
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Taylor Adams
Taylor Adams is an American author who writes suspenseful thrillers. Before turning to novels, Adams worked in the film and...
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Welsh author who writes historical fiction, women's fiction, and romance and became the first winner of...
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William P. Young
William P. Young is a Canadian novelist who writes suspense fiction that wrestles with faith, loss, and forgiveness. Raised among...
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Lorna Cook
Lorna Cook is a historical fiction writer who began her career in journalism and PR. Her novels often explore the...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist and screenwriter who gave a generation its defining coming-of-age story with The Perks of...
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