Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
2012
Books with the “Twist Ending” trope
The ending reveals a surprise turn that changes how you read everything that came before.
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Plot twists · Twist Ending
Books with this trope
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
1938
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
2019
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1985
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
2009
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
1841
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
1868
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
1911
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
1926
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1934
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr
1935
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
1951
The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz
2011
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
2018
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
2015
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
2006
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
2009
The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn
2018
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson
2011
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
2003
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
1996
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney
2017
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield
2006
Slade House
David Mitchell
2015
The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware
2019
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2001
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
2017
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
2012
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
2015
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
1930
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
1946
The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
1922
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
1929
The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
1987
The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green
1878
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
2016
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson
2022
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
1984
A Simple Plan
Scott Smith
1993
Verity
Colleen Hoover
2018
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
2022
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
2014
Behind Closed Doors
B. A. Paris
2016
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell
2017
The Last Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine
2017
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney
2021
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
2022
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
2021
My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing
2019
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
2014
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
2017
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Elle Cosimano
2021
The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen
2012
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
2019
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2020
Final Girls
Riley Sager
2017
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix
2021
The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson
2015
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
2016
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
2021
The Dry
Jane Harper
2016
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
2016
The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins
2021
Black-Eyed Susans
Julia Heaberlin
2015
The Silent Sister
Diane Chamberlain
2014
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1862
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
1938
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Faustian Bargain
A character trades something precious, often their soul, in exchange for youth, talent, or power.
Revenge
A wronged character spends the story hunting down the people who hurt them.
Locked Room Mystery
A crime happens in a room that is apparently sealed from the inside, with no way in or out.
Dual Identity
A respectable person hides a second, darker self or lives two opposite lives.