Riot Recommendation

40 Of The Best Twisty Reads!

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

This Riot Recommendation listing the best twisty reads you’ve read is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney.

I Know Who You Are cover imageMeet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very well. They know who she is and they know what she did.

 

 

 

 


We are strapped in and ready for a ride! Seriously, books that take twists and turns and leave us spinning and shouting “We never saw that coming!” are so much fun we can’t get enough. That’s why last week we asked you for the best twisty reads you’d read! And now we’re all going for a ride thanks to all the best twisty reads you shouted at us! Enjoy!

Like your books twisty and turny? You'll love these 40 titles. book lists | twisty books | books with great twists | great mysteries | books with twists

Kill the Next One by Federico Axat

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy by Stieg Larsson

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Night in Question by Nic Joseph

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton

The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Night Film by Marisa Pessel

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

Desert Places by Blake Crouch

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Unfortunate Expiration of Mr. David S. Sparks by William Aicher

The Things You Find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett