The editors of Real Simple read and comb through the hundreds of books that get published every month to reveal the best books out there—the novels, memoirs, short story and essay collections, and nonfiction titles that we think you should read next. From edge-of-your-seat psychological thrillers to gripping period crime novels, 2020 is set to be a nail-biting year for crime and thriller books. The Best Books of 2018. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that these best suspense books of 2018 (so far) prey on our anxieties during a turbulent era. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room International). Looking ahead to 2018, it's definite that our Goodreads queues will be getting a whole lot longer.These are the books you'll want to escape into when you're having a hard day. Red, White, Blue Lea Carpenter (Knopf) A daughter tries to piece together the life of her late father, a successful banker who spied for the CIA for 30 years, in the face of accusations that he was really a spy for the Chinese. With these black nights comes the harvest of the best dark fiction of the year. The past 12 months was an interesting time for horror. Kyozo Hayami, of the Tokyo Metropolitan PD, has to figure out how a construction company executive was killed by a crossbow bolt in the unusual figure eight–shaped house that he shared with his parents and two siblings. To add a bit of excitement to your bookshelf, we found some of the best thriller books out there. It's been a tough year. The books here were reviewed in Booklist between May 1, 2017, and April 15, 2018. Our critic rounds up the best crime fiction offerings of the year so far, from JK Rowling's new Strike mystery to a bestseller by South Korea's most popular crime writer Get your to-read list ready: 2018 is a good year for reading. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen return with their gripping third novel, another stunning psychological thriller about a group of women who appear to have it all, while David Baldacci's hero Amos Decker returns in a new action-packed crime thriller. Nov 7, 2018 Esquire. And although fans may know him best as a horror novelist, this is his third win in the Goodreads Choice Awards Mystery & Thriller category (he also earned wins here for End of Watch in 2016 and Mr. Mercedes in 2014). The Best Feminist Books To Spark Your Awakening Study up, ladies, because this is your essential reading list for the next four years. There's nothing like cozying up with a hair-rising psychological thriller read in one hand and a generous glass of red wine in the other, so we compiled a list of the of our favorite thriller books … This year he beat out the debut The Woman in the Window to take the title.