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Blake Crouch · 2012 · US · thriller · science fiction
Book 1 of 3 in Wayward Pines
★ 3.89 Hardcover · 778 ratings

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke wakes after a car crash in Wayward Pines, Idaho, a picture-perfect town where he can't reach his family or his office, and every road out seems to lead back in.

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Phantoms

Dean Koontz · 1983 · US 94% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 82,973 ratings
shares: mountainous, propulsive, small town · fast-paced, suspenseful

Jenny Paige, a doctor, brings her teenage sister Lisa home to Snowfield, a ski town in the California mountains, and finds its five hundred residents dead or vanished.

The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,756,112 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Maze Runner
shares: amnesia, claustrophobic, mysterious · fast-paced, suspenseful

Thomas wakes in a lift with no memory except his name and arrives in the Glade, a clearing walled in by an enormous maze whose walls move every night, where a community of boys has been looking for a way out for two years.

Pieces of Her

Karin Slaughter · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 158,727 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Andrea Oliver
shares: twisty, propulsive, conspiracy · suspenseful, easy read

On her thirty-first birthday, Andrea Oliver watches her mother Laura, a calm small-town speech therapist, stop a gunman in a Georgia diner with cold precision, and the video that spreads online sends Andrea across the country to learn who her mother used to be.

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson · 2011 · UK 93% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 377,346 ratings
shares: amnesia, claustrophobic · suspenseful, easy read

Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.

Home Before Dark

Riley Sager · 2020 · US 93% match ★ 3.90 Hardcover · 498 ratings
shares: twisty, eerie · suspenseful, easy read

Twenty-five years after her father wrote a bestselling memoir about the family fleeing their Vermont house, Baneberry Hall, after twenty days of haunting, Maggie Holt, who remembers none of it and thinks it was a lie, inherits the house and moves in.

Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · 2016 · US 93% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 145,557 ratings
shares: twisty, propulsive, conspiracy · fast-paced, suspenseful

Two weeks after burying her husband Joe, shot in front of her in Central Park, former Army helicopter pilot Maya Stern checks the nanny cam she hid to watch her daughter's sitter and sees Joe playing with their little girl.

Inferno

Dan Brown · 2013 · US 92% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 612,565 ratings
Book 4 of 6 in Robert Langdon
shares: amnesia, propulsive, conspiracy · fast-paced, suspenseful

Robert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last two days, and with a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, he flees an assassin through the city, following clues hidden in Dante's Inferno towards a scheme that threatens millions.

Daemon

Daniel Suarez · 2006 · US 92% match ★ 4.17 Hardcover · 584 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Daemon
shares: propulsive, series starter, conspiracy · fast-paced, plain prose

After the death of Matthew Sobol, a legendary designer of online games, a program he left behind starts carrying out his plans, killing programmers and recruiting followers, and a detective in Thousand Oaks is drawn into the hunt for it.

Under the Dome

Stephen King · 2009 · US 91% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 333,075 ratings
shares: claustrophobic, propulsive, small town · fast-paced, suspenseful

On a fine autumn morning an invisible barrier drops around Chester's Mill, Maine, cutting the town off from the world, and Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran working as a short-order cook, finds himself up against Big Jim Rennie, the used-car dealer who means to run the place.

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera · 2024 · US 89% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 650,377 ratings
shares: amnesia, twisty, small town · easy read, fast-paced

Five years after she was found wandering covered in her best friend's blood with no memory of the night, Lucy Chase goes home to her small Texas town, where a true-crime podcaster has come to reopen the case.

Five Survive

Holly Jackson · 2022 · UK 89% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 322,068 ratings
shares: twisty, claustrophobic · fast-paced, suspenseful

Six friends on a spring-break road trip in an RV break down in the middle of nowhere, and a sniper in the dark tells them that one of them has a secret worth killing for, and they have until dawn to give it up.

The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 2023 · US 89% match ★ 3.87 Hardcover · 724 ratings
shares: twisty, eerie · easy read, earnest

In 1983 Kit McDeere, a disgraced caregiver, is sent to Hope's End, a crumbling cliffside mansion in Maine, to look after Lenora Hope, who as a girl in 1929 was said to have killed her family and now can only communicate through a typewriter.