Read-in-one-sitting page-turners

Frank Herbert

Spice, sand, and the most influential sci-fi world ever built.

Gillian Flynn

A missing wife, a suspect husband, and the twist everyone still argues about.

Alex Michaelides

She shot her husband and never spoke again. Her therapist needs to know why.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The one book that built modern fantasy — 150 million copies and counting.

J.K. Rowling

The boy under the stairs who restarted a generation's reading habit.

Dan Brown

A murder in the Louvre and a trail of codes through 2,000 years of secrets.

Stieg Larsson

A forty-year-old disappearance, a disgraced journalist, and fiction's fiercest hacker.

Suzanne Collins

Twenty-four children, one arena, all of it televised.

Stephen King

A snowed-in hotel, a struggling writer, and the genre's most famous descent.

Bram Stoker

The Count comes to London — the vampire novel every vampire since has been answering.

Alexandre Dumas

Betrayed, imprisoned, escaped, enriched — literature's greatest revenge, served over 1,200 pages.

Mario Puzo

An offer you can't refuse — the crime novel that became American mythology.

Michael Crichton

Scientists clone dinosaurs; chaos theory does the rest. The techno-thriller at its apex.

George R.R. Martin

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die — fantasy with the safety off.

Douglas Adams

Earth is demolished for a hyperspace bypass; the funniest book science fiction ever produced begins.

Liane Moriarty

A school trivia night ends in a death — working backward through the perfect lives that caused it.

Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again — the gothic thriller that never ages.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A boy chooses a book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books — and someone is burning every copy.

Patrick Rothfuss

The most famous wizard alive tells the true story behind the legend — over three days, in an inn.

Rick Riordan

ADHD, dyslexia, and a vaporized math teacher — turns out Percy's dad is a god.

Donna Tartt

A murder at an elite college, told from the inside by one of the students who did it.

Orson Scott Card

A gifted boy is trained through brutal war games to save humanity — but the games are not what they seem.

Agatha Christie

Ten strangers are lured to an island and killed one by one — and the murderer is among them.

Patricia Highsmith

A charming grifter is sent to Italy to retrieve a rich man's son — and decides he'd rather become him.

Paula Hawkins

A woman who watches a seemingly perfect couple from her commuter train becomes the only witness to their unraveling, if she can trust her own blackouts.

Jojo Moyes

A small-town woman becomes caregiver to a bitter young banker paralyzed in an accident, and each cracks the other open.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A glamorous socialite travels to a crumbling mansion in the Mexican hills to rescue her cousin from something in the walls.

Shirley Jackson

Four strangers spend a summer in a house with a violent history, and the house begins to choose one of them.

Leigh Bardugo

A criminal prodigy assembles six dangerous outcasts for a heist no one has ever survived.

Audrey Niffenegger

A man with a genetic disorder involuntarily time-travels through the life of the woman he loves, meeting her out of order.

Diana Gabaldon

A WWII nurse touches a standing stone in the Scottish Highlands and wakes in 1743, torn between two husbands two centuries apart.

Dennis Lehane

Two U.S. Marshals travel to a hospital for the criminally insane to find a missing patient, and a storm traps them with the truth.

Umberto Eco

A brilliant monk and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a medieval abbey where a forbidden book may be killing readers.

Thomas Harris

A young FBI trainee must win the trust of one imprisoned serial killer to catch another still at large.

Stephen King

Seven kids in a Maine town fight the shape-shifting evil that hunts children, and are pulled back to finish it as adults.

Pierce Brown

A lowly miner on Mars discovers his caste has been enslaved by a lie, and infiltrates the academy that breeds the ruling elite to bring it down.

Ernest Cline

In a bleak future, a teenager hunts for a dead billionaire's fortune hidden inside a vast virtual universe built from 1980s pop culture.

Richard Osman

Four residents of a retirement village who meet weekly to pick over cold cases suddenly have a fresh, real murder on their doorstep.

Colleen Hoover

A struggling writer hired to finish a bestselling author's series finds an unpublished manuscript in the woman's house, a confession that should never have been written.

Freida McFadden

A desperate woman takes a live-in housekeeping job for a wealthy couple and quickly learns that the locked attic room, and the wife's behavior, hide something terrible.

Lucy Foley

A glamorous wedding on a remote Irish island turns deadly when the lights go out and a body is found, and every guest has a motive.

Blake Crouch

A physics professor is abducted, wakes in a life that isn't his, and must fight across infinite versions of his own world to get back to the family he chose.

Andy Weir

Stranded and presumed dead on Mars, an astronaut has to science the hell out of everything, one problem at a time, to stay alive long enough to be rescued.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A respectable doctor concocts a potion to separate his two natures, and unleashes the monstrous self he thought he could control.

Scott Lynch

Gillian Flynn

Robert Louis Stevenson

Alexandre Dumas