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Best Mystery Books for Book Club - Heidi DischlerOctober 2023 · Updated August 2026
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“So, for this post, I thought it would be great to share with you guys a list of the best mystery books for book club based off of what my book club has read 🙂 I’ll break it up into YA picks, adult picks, the best short pick, and then the top book that ALL my friends talk about.”
Gone for a latte.
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“Owing to the flexibility of the genre, there are many popular mystery series, including Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series, Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad, and the recent Thursday Murder Club series.”
Gone for an Americano.
23 Criminally-Good Thrillers and Murder Mystery Novels — What Is Quinn Reading?November 2025
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“Why you should read ‘Listen For the Lie’: First of all, it’s a top-tier mystery-thriller with killer twists and a prickly, complex heroine. (What more can you ask for in this genre, really?) I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
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“Literary noir maestro Fuminori Nakamura has always been interested in understanding the psychology of crime, and in My Annihilation, a labyrinthine story that contains a mystery inside another mystery, he allows that obsession to shape the entire narrative.”
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The 112 Best Literary Mysteries and Crime NovelsNovember 2019 · Updated August 2026
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“Miller, here is a roundup of the 112 best literary mysteries and crime novels ever written. To compile the final rankings, I assigned a weighted score to each novel appearing on a previous list and combined these scores with votes from readers and authors to produce a cumulative score that distinguished 112 novels as standouts from the pack of over 1,500 novels that garnered at least one vote.”