# The best psychological thrillers

The novels that play with the reader's mind and that bookshops and readers recommend most, from Rebecca to The Housemaid.

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- Jul 17, 2026 · medalloversionoriginal
- https://even.best/en/l/3345/the-best-psychological-thrillers

## Top 17

1. **Gone Girl** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gillian Flynn, 2012. A woman vanishes on her anniversary and nothing is what it seems.
2. **The Silent Patient** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alex Michaelides, 2019. A painter who stops speaking after killing her husband.
3. **The Housemaid** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Freida McFadden, 2022. The genre's recent phenomenon.
4. **The Woman in the Window** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A. J. Finn, 2018. A woman who never leaves home thinks she sees a crime.
5. **El día que se perdió la cordura** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Javier Castillo, 2017. The debut of the genre's most read Spanish author.
6. **You** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Caroline Kepnes, 2014. An obsessed bookseller narrates his stalking.
7. **The Girl on the Train** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paula Hawkins, 2015. What a woman sees every day from the train.
8. **Misery** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stephen King, 1987. A writer held captive by his number one fan.
9. **Rebecca** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Daphne du Maurier, 1938. The shadow of the first wife at Manderley.
10. **The Silence of the Lambs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thomas Harris, 1988. Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter.
11. **Blood Wedding** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pierre Lemaitre, 2008. A woman who cannot remember what she has done.
12. **Before I Go to Sleep** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — S. J. Watson, 2011. Every morning she forgets her whole life.
13. **Shutter Island** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dennis Lehane, 2003. A marshal on an asylum island.
14. **The Talented Mr Ripley** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Patricia Highsmith, 1955. The most elegant impostor in literature.
15. **Psycho** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robert Bloch, 1959. The novel behind Hitchcock's film.
16. **Sharp Objects** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gillian Flynn, 2006. A journalist returns to her hometown and her mother.
17. **The Club Dumas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1993. A book hunter and a cursed manuscript.

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