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Leisure Reading: Award Winners, Graphic Novels, Classics, and More!

Montgomery Library's Guide to Genre Reading

Thrillers / Mystery 

Thrillers include action, adventure, espionage, and mystery. This kind of novel utilizes suspense and tension throughout the plot.

Selected Titles

Find these books on the New Books/Leisure Reading cart by the Library Help Desk or on the shelves in the Mainstacks area.

Additional Recommended Titles

These titles and others may be found in Mainstacks on Montgomery Library's main floor. If you cannot find a book in the Mainstacks area, check the New Books/Leisure Reading cart. 

PL 855 .O3525 B6313 2016 The Graveyard Apartment / Mariko Koike Thriller
PR 6120 .U36 B87 2021 The Burning Girls/ C. J. Tudo Thriller
PR 6107 .O54 L58 2020 Little Darlings/ Melanie Golding Mystery
PS 3607 .O9476 2024 The Act of Disappearing: A Novel / Nathan Gower Historical Mystery
PS 3552 .R685434 D3 2003 The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown Mystery
PS 3553 .R48 L67 1995b The Lost World / by Michael Crichton Adventure
PS 3563 .C337 A79 1992 All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy Adventure
PS 3563 .I42322 F74 2000 Free Fall / Kyle Mills Adventure
PS 3566 .A822 C76 2006

Cross / James Patterson

Mystery
PS 3570 .A48 S23 2005 Saving Fish from Drowning / Amy Tan Thriller
PS 3602 .E66444 V36 2020 The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett Mystery