Jasper DeWitt 2020
- What it is
-
Told in letters, diaries or messages · properly scary
- Genre
- Thriller Horror Mystery
- Feels
- Chilling Unsettling Mysterious Dark Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to The Patient
Coming from The Patient? Start with Shutter Island, The Silent Patient, Hell House. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
11 books
The closest to yours
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane 2003
Readers put them together in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides 2018
Grouped with yours in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden 2022
The truth comes out bit by bit · you end up rooting for the wrong people
The girl with all the gifts
Mike Carey 2014
It stirs you up inside · it tells it with no filter
The woman in the window
A. J. Finn 2017
The truth comes out bit by bit · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Six wakes
Mur Lafferty 2017
It's hiding a secret · it messes with your head
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton 1990
Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
Last Night at Tremore Beach
Mikel Santiago 2014
It's hiding a secret · a place nobody can leave
Sphere
Michael Crichton 1987
The truth comes out bit by bit · you'll keep turning it over for days
8 books
A threat that keeps growing and closed setting
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami 2025
It won't tell you everything at once · nothing is quite what it seems
God's Crooked Lines
Torcuato Luca de Tena 1983
Readers put them together in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
American elsewhere
Robert Jackson Bennett 2012
It's hiding a secret · a place nobody can leave
Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson 2002
It'll scare you · a haunted house
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid 2023
The truth comes out bit by bit · love in the middle of danger
Asylum
Patrick McGrath 1998
Grouped with yours in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
15 books
A threat that keeps growing and letters and diaries
The last days of Jack Sparks
Jason Arnopp 2016
It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
Verity
Colleen Hoover 2018
Properly scary · nobody is entirely good
Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris 2016
It'll scare you · a twist at the end that changes everything
Recursion
Blake Crouch 2019
It won't tell you everything at once · nothing is quite what it seems
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell 2023
The truth comes out bit by bit · pitch-black comedy
Before I Go To Sleep
S.J. Watson 2012
It won't tell you everything at once · a twist at the end that changes everything
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris 1988
It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
Dark matter
Michelle Paver 2010
Properly scary · it stays with you
Psycho
Robert Bloch 1959
Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
1 book
Closed setting and letters and diaries
8 books · Alike in just one
Only a threat that keeps growing
September House
Carissa Orlando 2023
Properly scary · a haunted house
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher 2020
It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
The ritual
Adam Nevill 2012
Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The Hunger
Alma Katsu 2018
Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
The Invisible Guardian
Dolores Redondo 2013
It won't tell you everything at once · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill 1984
It'll scare you · a haunted house
Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay 2024
It ties your stomach in a knot · properly strange
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Properly scary · in search of a lost world or a treasure
1 book · Alike in just one
Only closed setting
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020
Properly scary · a haunted house
2 books · Alike in just one
Only letters and diaries
Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. Bourne 2009
It'll scare you · it tells it straight
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
The truth comes out bit by bit · one more chapter, then another
2 books
More similar books
Naomi's Room
Jonathan Aycliffe 1991
Properly scary · properly strange
Between two fires
Christopher Buehlman 2012
It ties your stomach in a knot · a long road where every step counts
Still hunting?
Ask other readers for books like this one
On Drayfus, a stack is a small shelf a reader hand-picked around one theme. Open one with this book and other readers vote in the titles that belong, so your list keeps growing without you.
Other stacks with this book
