TOP 10 FAVORITE THRILLER/HORROR BOOKS 

I love how enthusiastic she explain how good the books are. I saved like all of the books to my TBR. 😂

"Fried Green Tomatoes meets Dracula" is such a great description.

I’m too wimpy for most scary books, but so many of these sound so good!

"Behind her eyes, nobody is going to guess the twist" i'll take that challenge after reading: yup

Behind Her Eyes is one of my favorites! The ending is so unpredictable! 😍🤩

Jessie, you are so persuasive at book recommendations! I don't even typically read this genre but want to read all of these! 💕

These all sound good! I have read quite a few Stephen King books and they are hit or miss for me, but I keep hearing how great the Shining is so I am going to have to read it.

Behind Closed Doors is what got me into thrillers and I want a sequel.

I also LOVED the Millenium trilogy. Thanks to these books I got hooked on thrillers. Started reading Jo Nesbo, Simon Beckett, Chris Carter, etc afterwards and nowadays I read all kinds of thriller authors. I can HIGHLY recommend anyone who loved the character Lisbeth Salander the book "Secrets of the Tattooed Girl" by Dan Burstein et al.

The Millennium Trilogy is one of my all time favs and no one talks about it. So so so good. Those books made me love mystery books.

Your energy was incredible. You really enjoyed revisiting the moments ❤️

This is the first time I’ve seen someone else say their favorite book was Imaginary Friend!!! So amazing

Just yesterday I read my first horror book: It by Stephen King and I LOVED IT! It’s awesome! I don’t really intend to read a lot of horror books, because I’m a scared cat, but this one was worth it. Really. I really really loved it. For me, it was a very good choice to start reading Stephen King and I highly recommend. I’ve already chose the next one: 11/22/63.

I truly enjoyed the Sun Down Motel. The twist at the end was interesting, for sure, but I rated similar to you. It was a bit of a step outside of what I usually read, but I'm happy I took that step and opened that door. I have not read The Shining, but I am thinking October will be a great month to read it. I would encourage you to try Carrie, it's one of my Stephen King favorites. It's a different writing format, but a relatively fast read. And, Alex North is definitely on my list of future purchases. 😊

New subscriber!!!! My favorite books are psychological thriller, horror, suspenseful! The scarier the better!!!! I’m reading The Shinning now for the first time! The Last Mrs. Parrish will be my next book to read! Thanks!

One of my favourite videos of all time, Jessie! 😍 ah, I loved the content of this SOOOO much! Plus your enthusiasm for these titles always sees me adding these to my neverending TBR 😅 I definitely want to check out The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Dry, Behind Closed Doors and The Last Mrs Parrish!! 😁 plenty more reading to get me through these dark months! For me The One, The Woman in the Window, The Whisper Man and Final Girls are recent thrillers which stand out. Btw I’m loving your hair - the colour really suits you 😍🤗💜

Omg awwwww! Thank you for the shout out.. you're awesome! ❤❤❤❤

Jessie, you are the first person I’ve seen in this community who loves The Shining as much as me! It’s my favorite Stephen King novel. I just hauled The Whisper Man and Imaginary Friend. Hope to get to them this fall. Also have a few Riley Sager novels to read. Have you read any of his books? Is their one you recommend?

I've had 2 months of readers block and then out of the blue about a week ago I all of a sudden fancied reading a book and I remembered watching this video a while ago and I've literally sought it out trying to find out the title of Imaginary friends and I'm so glad I found this video again 😀😀 It just came this morning and I cannot wait to start it. It sounds like my sort of thing but you definitely inspired me to check it out, so thank you!! 😊

Watching this in April anxiously anticipating spooky season. Hurry up October! Great video!

I love how you explain it without saying too much about the story. Some here in yt says too much and I feel like they are spoilers

I LOVED The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires...I suggest ready Horrorstor by Grady as well, enjoy!!

The southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires sounds great ;-) going to pick it up definitely. For spooky season ill be picking up Sleeping Beauties by Stephan and Owen King. I have already read The Shining its one of my favorite Stephan King books of all time.

I have just finished The Whisper Man. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was going to take a supernatural turn at one point too. Definitely going to read his next book.

I feel like no one talks about The Millennium Trilogy and it’s one of my favorites of all time 🙌🏾🙌🏾

The Shinning, No Exit, Eyeshot, Carrie, The Chain, The Troop, The Firm .

I subbed just bcuz of your descriptions and how excited you are about these...in short love, love, love your "book" energy!!!

Really loved the hook for" behind her eyes " Thanks for Recommending

Loved Behind Closed Doors

I love the enthusiasm! I definitely put a few of these on my list based on your video. I love the movie The Shining but I've seen it so many times that I never got around to reading the book because I figured it would be about the same, but it sounds like it has its own character to it so I'm excited to check it out!

Your Stephen king book from Barnes and noble is so cool 😻

I loved Sundown Motel. Also loved Lock Every Door and Home Before Dark by Riley Sager. Going to read Imaginary Friend, it sound interesting

Love your energy! First video of yours that I've seen but immediately subscribed! 💙

Yes!!! Southern Book Club’s - 5 🌟 Gone Girl - 5 🌟 . The Last Mrs. Parrish was so freaking good! Loved it. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo I read in high school and it blew me away (will need to reread). So excited to pick up the ones I haven’t read on the list. 😅

Love the fall decorations on your bookshelf! The Shining is so good... so different from the movie!!! So so different, but I loved the book way more. I think you should read Misery if you haven't, that's also one of my favorite Stephen King books... outside of The Dark Tower, anyway. That series totally blew my mind. Always wanted to get around to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. Good recommendations :) I'll have to check out a few that I haven't read before.

*Southern Guide to Slaying Vampires* has just been borrowed and I should be getting to it in the next couple of days & *Sundown Motel* is on hold. I have been interested in reading *The Girl with Dragon Tattoo* trilogy since LOVING Rooney Mara as Lisbeth in the film adaptation. *The Shinning & Gone Girl* are two of my favorites too!

Yay! I'm reading The Shining next month! :D I've been looking for something super creepy/scary so I had to watch this asap. Oooh Alex North! I have his follow up on my shelf and I need to read it! Oh man... Imaginary Friend again.... I *really* want to read that one!

omg i LOVED the last mrs. parrish! I have all of your recommendations bookmarked in good reads haha thank you !

Two recommendations: The Tommyknockers By: Stephen King Intensity By: Dean Koontz My favs ❤❤❤

I felt the same way about Behind Her Eyes and also Behind Closed Doors! I’m excited to read The Whisper Man and also to see how I feel about Imaginary Friend!

What a great list! I've read half of them and love all but one (Gone Girl, sadly, doesn't do it for me). Sundown Motel was my kind of spooky. Grady Hendrix is excellent pulp with pathos. And The Shining is an absolute classic. You should definitely make time for Salem's Lot this fall. It is simultaneously a love story, a moving portrait of a small town, and a downright frightening horror novel. Based on what you said here, you would LOVE it. This was my first time stumbling across your channel, and you won me over. Liked and subscribed! Thanks for putting out excellent videos like this one.

The Dry and The Whisper Man both sound amazing because they seem to have more depth than your typical thriller novel. I have a hard time finding thrillers/suspense novels that I love because they seem to be kind of shallow, I guess. I completely agree with you on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. It is an amazing series! I absolutely loved My Best Friend’s Exorcism.

Loved your recommendation some of them are books that I have a red in the past and I love your mini review of them and you don’t give anything away

This video made me SO happy 😃. I’ve yet to come across one I relate to like this. I own half of these books and haven’t read them yet!! Currently reading The Shining! THANK YOU for this video 🙌!

omg jessie your hair looks so good in this i-

Wow. Great job and so much fun to watch. You have something special.

No exit by Taylor adams is amazing the whole book is so engaging

You convinced me. I ordered Imaginary Friend to read over my Christmas break 😀

Behind Her Eyes blew my tiny mind.

I don't read many thrillers (I'm more into fantasy) but I've been meaning to change that, thank you for your recommendations : they all seem amazing!

I don’t think I have ever read a horror book now that I’m really thinking. Definitely thrillers but nothing explicitly horror. I guess I’ll have to try!

I really want to read the southerner's book club's guide to slaying vampires! That title alone makes me intrigued. I'm reading Behind closed doors and the Last Mrs Parrish in October and I'm so excited!

Omg Behind Closed Doors is soooo good... Gone Girl is the book that introduced me to bookstagram... great choices... great video as usual 😊

Read Behind Closed Doors in two days. One of the greatest and most sadistic villains ever and the ending is brilliant. Started The Whisper Man this morning and so far feeling dread of what is coming up - very well written.

Oooo I own a copy of Behind Her Eyes but I hadn’t heard much about it, so I’m excited for it now! I’m reading The Shining this month!

I have Imaginary Friend on my TBR for October! I have a feeling I’m going to love it 😍 I also added Behind Her Eyes and The Dry to my endless Goodreads TBR 😁

I read a few of these titles, and agree with you on all I've read. In fact, I just finished Imaginary Friend today! While I do think it dragged (just a bit) I agree that it's a great read with some intriguing characters. I've been recommending to family since about 40 pages in. Plus, Ambrose is the man. Thanks for the list ( I'm ordering TSBCGtSV currently, based on your recommendation. Also, thank you for your unflinching enthusiasm for reading.; it's quite refreshing as we strive on in a world dripping in screen addiction. Peace to you, and happy reading.

Finally! Someone loved Behind Closed Doors! 🙌🏼 I had 5 people read it after me and they all loved it

The whisper man was super spooky!

Crazy how she is replying and hearting every single comment😂

Thank you so much for recommending TLMParrish, the halfway point flipped my mind.. it’s still continuing to every chapter 😱. Subscriiiiibed! Thank you ❤️

Yesss!! Behind Closed Doors!! So bizarre!!! And I really want to read Imaginary Friend. I'm hoping I'll love it as much as you. So you would take IF over WoK?

I love this since I have been wanting to read more thrillers/horror!!! Imaginary Friend and Whisper Man are on my TBR for October and I really want to get the Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

I loved behind her eyes, I do understand some of the hate the ending got, but I read it almost a year ago and I still think about it.

I feel you on recommending books that are your favorite but won't be for everyone. That how I feel about Jemisin as an author and also right now The Machineries Empire Series. Like I love that series because its confusing but I also know people don't want necessarily want to work that hard when they read lol

I love the first one. I keep telling ppl they should read it but they never do and ppl are really missing out.

Loved this video! Subscribed! Did you read home before dark? It’s my new fav! I need to try the dry and whisper Man.

I absolutely LOVE Imaginary Friend!!! I hear a lot of bad things about it, so it's great to see someone else who loves it :)

I've never read any of the "Millennium" novels, so I'll be ordering "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" soon. I've just ordered my next read, "The Cousins" by Karen M. McManus - its a YA mystery, which I love, but I've been meaning to get into more adult thrillers. This is a fantastic list, going to read as many as I can!

Love your enthusiasm.

So ready to start Behind Closed Doors later this week. I loved the girl with the dragon tattoo series!!!

Nice. I have Imaginary Friend on my Kindle and have not read it yet. You’ve left me optimistic that I will like it.

Hey, Jessie, I've been wanting to get more into thrillers, but I have kind of a low tolerance for super creepy stuff. It would be really cool if you did like an "intro to thrillers" video for some of us who are primarily SFF readers but want to get into thrillers!

An older bunch, the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.

The trilogy she talks about in this video is the "Millennium" trilogy by Steig Larsson :)

Great video! Thank u so much but would h hav a particular order for these? From ur most loved to the least?

Behind Closed Doors...read it in half a day. Loved it!

The last mrs parrish is amazing!

Some of my absolute favourites here and a few that I definitely want to read! :)

I’ve only read one of these but so many are on my TBR!! I’ve heard such mixed things about the Chobosky book that I’m suppppper nervous to pick it up lol

I've definitely heard that Behind Her Eyes is a love/hate book. I believe I have it, so I'll try to read it this fall! Haha oh man, Southern Book Club was super fun (but there were definitely moments where I wanted to throw the book across the room). The Sun Down Motel is on my list to read this fall as well! YESSSS The Shining is excellent. I think that's also my favorite, though I do really like 'Salem's Lot and The Green Mile as well. I was literally looking at Behind Closed Doors the other day! I'm glad to hear that it's worthwhile. I'm also planning on reading The Whisper Man this fall! Haha oh my goodness, I also just got a copy of The Dry.

Thank you for your reviews!!

Love all these reccs and I might give The Whisper Man another go, I think i might really like it. I DNFed it just because it followed a detective so I’ll try and pick it up again. I also want to read SunDown Motel! It sounds so good. I have behind her eyes and behind closed doors and I can’t wait to read them 😁 And hopefully I can get to Imaginary Friend next month

I loved behind her eyes I feel like the twist at the end is well deserved by the victim lol for many reasons

the girl with the dragon tattoo is a part of the millenium triology

I was thinking of adding Behind her Eyes to my tbr. I have been hearing good things and its on my shelves. I also have Imaginary Friend based on your recommendations. Have not read it yet. Just finished The Other People. Its an easy quick read. I gave it 4 stars.

I can’t wait to read Behind Closed Doors with Vish and Abby this week! 😄

It's called The Millennium Trilogy. And Steig Larson define Nordic Noir. He did such an amazing job , plus the character Mikael is such a non problematic alpha man. Gosh

I just finished Behind Her Eyes last night. I was someone who didn’t like the twist at the end. I was disappointed. I don’t want to give anything away so I won’t go into details 😄

First off, I Love You! You remind me of myself so much! We are sweet and bubbly but love those thrillers! Second, you need to read "Desperation" by Stephen King. It is my ALL TIME FAVORITE. By him and is such an AMAZING story with so many thrills. You long for light throughout the whole book and rarely find it.

I have four favorite Stephen King books, that I read voraciously when I got them: The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone and The Stand. All other King books pale in comparison to me. My favorites classified: scary: The Shining. Creepy/exciting: 'Salem's Lot. Emotional: The Dead Zone. Epic: The Stand. Since you like thrillers I highly, highly HIGHLY recommend Red Dragon and Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris. Still the grandfather of the 'serial killer' genre, as far as I am concerned, because he is the first writer to actually speak to the FBI's behavioral unit to come up with not only his killers, but Hannibal Lecter, as well. Although the movie for Silence is the best adaptation I have ever seen from page to screen I still recommend you read it so you can get into the mind of Clarice Starling. Jodie Foster did her justice, but as we know with books she couldn't deliver those internal monologues we all have. I did not care for Hannibal, or Hannibal Rising, as they are huge let downs from the first two. But read Red Dragon first, since that was first. Thanks for the recommendations.

The Millennium Trilogy (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is one of my book series that I supah love! 💞💞💞🐲 Lisbeth Salander is fierce! 💞 I also recommend legal thrillers like A Time to Kill by John Grisham. 😊 You can also try The Firm by John Grisham. 😊

You might also like the Nevada Barr (Anna Pigeon series but more particular the book Flashback, great mystery and dual timelines).

I liked Imaginary Friend! The last 200 pages fell flat for me, but I did enjoy it enough to keep it on my shelf.

Awesome video! Would be possible to provide links to where we can buy these books? Often times I've had folks watch a review and accidentally order a book with the same title but by a different author. Really appreciate the great content, thanks!

Did you read "Salem's Lot" in the Stephen King omnibus you've got? Highly recommended...some other oldies you might like are "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty (much better and scarier than the movie), "The Stand" by King (probably his magnum opus), "Coma" by Robin Cook, and "Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin. They'll keep you up at night.

Awesome top ten. I'll be adding some of these to my list

Just got my Stephen King 3 books Barnes and Nobles exclusive book!!! Its so gorgeous, I'm excited!!! 👏🏽

I thought Imaginary Friend was amazing for the first half of the book, but after that it seemed to drag on sooooo much! Maybe I’ll reread it one day to give it another shot but by the end I wanted to throw it out the window.😂😅