The best psychological thrillers
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Gone Girl · The Silent Patient · The Housemaid. (Updated Jul 17, 2026.)
The novels that play with the reader's mind and that bookshops and readers recommend most, from Rebecca to The Housemaid.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 17
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, 2012. A woman vanishes on her anniversary and nothing is what it seems.
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2
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, 2019. A painter who stops speaking after killing her husband.
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, 2022. The genre's recent phenomenon.
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The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn, 2018. A woman who never leaves home thinks she sees a crime.
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El día que se perdió la cordura
Javier Castillo, 2017. The debut of the genre's most read Spanish author.
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6
You
Caroline Kepnes, 2014. An obsessed bookseller narrates his stalking.
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The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, 2015. What a woman sees every day from the train.
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Misery
Stephen King, 1987. A writer held captive by his number one fan.
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9
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier, 1938. The shadow of the first wife at Manderley.
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10
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris, 1988. Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter.
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Blood Wedding
Pierre Lemaitre, 2008. A woman who cannot remember what she has done.
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12
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson, 2011. Every morning she forgets her whole life.
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13
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane, 2003. A marshal on an asylum island.
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14
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith, 1955. The most elegant impostor in literature.
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15
Psycho
Robert Bloch, 1959. The novel behind Hitchcock's film.
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Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn, 2006. A journalist returns to her hometown and her mother.
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The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1993. A book hunter and a cursed manuscript.
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