Start with high-confidence thrillers books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Bad Monkeys
Matt Ruff
Absolute Risk
Steven Gore
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
Critical
Robin Cook
Codex
Lev Grossman
The Hollow Man
Dan Simmons
In Too Deep
Lee Child, Andrew Child
Not Quite Dead Yet: a GMA Book Club Pick
Holly Jackson, Alex McKenna
God Save the Mark
Donald E. Westlake
Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby, Adam Lazarre-White
Paradox
Douglas Preston, Aletheia Preston
Saturday
Ian McEwan
Obsessed
Ted Dekker
Birds of Prey
Harlan Coben, C.J. Box
The Bad Weather Friend
Dean Koontz, Ray Chase
Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite, Joshua Saxon
The Man Who Saw Seconds
Alexander Boldizar
