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Police procedurals, cozy mysteries, psychological thrillers, true crime: whatever your mystery flavor, we’ve got recommendations on the best mystery books out there, from diverse authors writing in every mystery sub-genre. Get your whodunit (orwhatdunit, if you like a supernatural mystery) fix with posts from our mystery/thriller-reading contributors. Now go crack those cases!

Do You Read Books From Series Out of Order?

An experiment in reading a series completely out of order.

The End Of The World As We Know It: On THE LAST POLICEMAN Series

For decades, post-apocalyptic novels have been a mainstay of science-fiction. But lately it’s starting to get a little, well, constant. ...

Peek Over Our Shoulders: What Rioters Are Reading On July 10, 2014

This is a new feature at Book Riot. We tell you our favorite books of the month. We tell you ...

Her Name Was Trouble With a Capital L

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

5 Books To Watch For In July

We are going all-supernatural in this month’s Books to Watch, with dragons and vampires and ladies that are cities and ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in June

American Gods by Neil Gaiman  I’ve been putting this one off for a while. Sure, it’s probably the most widely ...

An Interview With Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of the novels The End of Everything, Queenpin, The Song is You, Die ...

Is GONE GIRL a Misogynist Novel?

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What to Read If You Love Hitchcock Movies

Recommended Hitchcockian books.

Genre Kryptonite: International Thrillers and Serial Killer Novels

This is a guest post by Roxane Gay. Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Best ...