The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward really kept me on my toes.
WindSprenn on
Girl With All The Gifts. Never saw that ending coming.
Edit: written by M.R. Carey
pocket-sauce on
Ender’s Game
MunchkinBumm on
And Then There We’re None by Agatha Christie
Acirelav on
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
FavoriteSocks on
Fingersmith by Sara Waters
shoes_have_sou1s on
we were liars
sashavie on
Killers of The Flower Moon – it’s a historical account of the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s — also Martin Scorcese’s film version is coming out in a few weeks
A relatively brisk but gripping read that definitely has some unexpected turns
geetodd on
A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World
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The red wedding scene in A Storm of Swords. I mean damn.
mitchxout on
Shutter Island
enlenar on
Silent Patient
Girl On the Train
The Bone Collector
Rhud91 on
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
The whole way through is filled with unexpected twists and turns. Felt like every chapter left me on a cliff edge
lone_wattie on
Jude the obscure
Dusty_Jetstream on
Green Eggs and Ham. He didn’t want to eat them but then he did. I was like “No way! He fucking ate the green eggs and ham! I did not see that coming.”
ChefDodge on
“The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead has a pretty big twist, but you have to wait awhile for it.
bookluvr2 on
sharp objects–you spend the entirety of the book thinking one thing, and then the epilogue happens.
clydecooper on
Tender is the flesh….that ending still pisses me off
TinyHippoTrain on
Never Lie by Frieda McFadden. I like how it signals a certain plot twist the entire time—and then has a completely different one
Live_Perspective3603 on
A few different Agatha Christie stories, especially Witness For the Prosecution. Also And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder In Retrospect, and Murder On the Orient Express. Read the original works by Christie, don’t just watch the movies that were based on her stories because they always change the plot and the movies never quite make sense.
Live_Perspective3603 on
Piranesi by Susanna Clark.
Delta_Hammer on
Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The twists completely blindsided me.
NeverEatDawnSoap on
*The Thief* by Megan Whalen Turner
It’s middle grade, but what a twist! Do NOT read the summaries for any subsequent books in the series or it’ll ruin the first book for you.
theclapp on
Harrow The Ninth.
lady_lane on
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Nerdbaba on
Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
queenkitsch on
Sarah Waters—Fingersmith. There are several twists!
Samiiiibabetake2 on
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Mrsowens93 on
The wife between us
YardOutside8642 on
My Sisters Keeper
darktowerseeker on
Fight Club.
But the ending, the ending you’re warned against by the author, to the Dark Tower books is insanity.
jeniviva on
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. The slow realization killed me.
Ashcrashh on
I was reading the snail and the whale to my daughter the other day and I was not expecting to cry like a baby. Even my 4 year old daughter thought I was ridiculous. I think I was just extra emotional that day, but that damn book got me in a certain part and it’s a children’s book lol
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Rebecca
Mo2129 on
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Never even crossed my mind that Christie would dare to go where she did with that ending, caught me completely off-guard.
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From the top of my mind – gone girl
The Summer That Melted Everything
Rock Paper Scissors
Gone Girl
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward really kept me on my toes.
Girl With All The Gifts. Never saw that ending coming.
Edit: written by M.R. Carey
Ender’s Game
And Then There We’re None by Agatha Christie
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Fingersmith by Sara Waters
we were liars
Killers of The Flower Moon – it’s a historical account of the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s — also Martin Scorcese’s film version is coming out in a few weeks
A relatively brisk but gripping read that definitely has some unexpected turns
A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World
The red wedding scene in A Storm of Swords. I mean damn.
Shutter Island
Silent Patient
Girl On the Train
The Bone Collector
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
The whole way through is filled with unexpected twists and turns. Felt like every chapter left me on a cliff edge
Jude the obscure
Green Eggs and Ham. He didn’t want to eat them but then he did. I was like “No way! He fucking ate the green eggs and ham! I did not see that coming.”
“The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead has a pretty big twist, but you have to wait awhile for it.
sharp objects–you spend the entirety of the book thinking one thing, and then the epilogue happens.
Tender is the flesh….that ending still pisses me off
Never Lie by Frieda McFadden. I like how it signals a certain plot twist the entire time—and then has a completely different one
A few different Agatha Christie stories, especially Witness For the Prosecution. Also And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder In Retrospect, and Murder On the Orient Express. Read the original works by Christie, don’t just watch the movies that were based on her stories because they always change the plot and the movies never quite make sense.
Piranesi by Susanna Clark.
Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The twists completely blindsided me.
*The Thief* by Megan Whalen Turner
It’s middle grade, but what a twist! Do NOT read the summaries for any subsequent books in the series or it’ll ruin the first book for you.
Harrow The Ninth.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Sarah Waters—Fingersmith. There are several twists!
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The wife between us
My Sisters Keeper
Fight Club.
But the ending, the ending you’re warned against by the author, to the Dark Tower books is insanity.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. The slow realization killed me.
I was reading the snail and the whale to my daughter the other day and I was not expecting to cry like a baby. Even my 4 year old daughter thought I was ridiculous. I think I was just extra emotional that day, but that damn book got me in a certain part and it’s a children’s book lol
Rebecca
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Never even crossed my mind that Christie would dare to go where she did with that ending, caught me completely off-guard.
I have:
* [“best plot twist ever books”](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10e6rkm/best_plot_twist_ever_books/) (r/suggestmeabook; 17 January 2023)—extremely long
* [“Unreliable narrator, plot twists.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10l3ag3/unreliable_narrator_plot_twists/) (r/suggestmeabook; 11:52 ET, 25 January 2023)
* [“Books with the craziest plot twists”](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/13cr5x2/books_with_the_craziest_plot_twists/) (r/booksuggestions; 10:12 ET, 9 May 2023)
* [“Books like the Netflix series, Black Mirror.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/14bir2j/books_like_the_netflix_series_black_mirror/) (r/suggestmeabook; 01:50 ET, 17 June 2023)—”Something that’s creative(very out of the box), twisty, and unsettling!”
* [“Need a book that will leave me thinking about it for days after finishing”](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/15cqeob/need_a_book_that_will_leave_me_thinking_about_it/) (r/booksuggestions; 07:51 ET, 29 July 2023)—plus plot twist