20 Book Recommendations With Twist Endings To Leave Mystery Fans In Suspense
BookTok is a popular subgenre on TikTok. Creators specializing in this community use their platform to review the books they have read and recommend what to put on their followers' reading lists.
Unfortunately, as with any popular community, BookTok is also controversial. Others have accused the creators of hyping up books that didn't deserve praise (see: Collin Hoover books) while disparaging books they deem "too complicated."
Some bibliophiles look down on the BookTok community while some appreciate it for "reviving" people's love for reading. The current drama is about a popular creator who allegedly scammed indie authors out of their hard-earned money.
In exchange, she promised to review their books on her massive platform to boost sales. She didn't deliver any of the promises she made.
It was clear in some of her reviews that she did not read the books she was paid to review. In some cases, she didn't post any video at all despite accepting payment from authors.
She has since deleted her BookTok account and set her other TikTok account to private amidst the controversy. Since BookTok is plagued with controversy, where do we look for book recommendations?
Before TikTok there was Reddit. Inquiring minds can ask one of the book-related subs to find the next tome in their collection.
One Reddit user who loved twist endings asked: "What was a book with a plot twist so crazy you never saw it coming?" After more than 1k responses, here are some of the most upvoted book recommendations.
1. A former model left disfigured and unable to speak by a vehicular accident struggles when people stop paying attention to her.
2. Gillian Flynn's book is about a reporter returning to her hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the subsequent disappearance of another.
3. A Dr. Seuss classic! Will Sam-I-Am eat the green eggs and ham? Bonus: he's a banned author in many states!
4. Sesame St. mainstay Grover begs the reader to stop reading the book because there's a monster at the end of it!
5. A single mom meets a man during her night out. She finds out he's her new boss, and he's married! But why is his wife so scared of him?
6. Another Gillian Flynn book. In this story, a husband finds his wife missing on the morning of their 5th wedding anniversary. He's the main suspect. Where is she?
7. The summary reads: "Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair." Chilling.
8. Third book in A Song Of Ice and Fire AKA Game of Thrones. The twist has been spoiled, but still worth the read.
9. You can't talk about plot twists without mentioning the queen, Dame Agatha Christie. Plenty of choices in her massive body of work.
10. In search of a murderess, US marshals end up in Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and discover everything is not as it seems.
11. The summary reads: "This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet they are all lies..."
12. Agustina Bazterrica depicts a dystopian society where a virus has contaminated all animal meat.
13. Too many to summarize but based on the blurbs, they're worth your attention.
14. This is non-fiction and has been adapted into film.
15. In this Jodi Picoult classic, a 13-year-old sues her parents after she is told to donate her kidney to her older sister.
16. Orson Scott Card writes about Ender, a young boy recruited by the international military to defend humankind against Buggers.
17. Newlyweds visit the manor that once belonged to a psychiatrist, who has since disappeared. She finds cassette tapes in a secret room. The transcripts revealed the truth about the doctor's disappearance.
18. In this C.A. Fletcher book, Griz goes after the thief who stole his dog.
19. Boarding school students leave the property and uncover the truth about their isolated English boarding school.
20. The king's scholar recruits a prisoner to retrieve an ancient treasure.
There are plenty of book recommendations in the thread to keep any reader occupied until next year! If you know the book has a plot twist, would you still be surprised when you read it?
