Fast-Paced Thrillers Under 350 Pages
Some thrillers earn their length. Most don't. This is the lean end of the genre: books that grab you by the collar on page one and won't let go until you've turned the last, all under 350 pages. Good for a flight, a reading slump, or any evening you want the whole white-knuckle ride in one sitting.
How we picked these
A hand-chosen theme and criteria — then every match ranked by our weighted rating, top 24 shown:
- Genres → Thriller
- Moods → Tense
- Pages → < 350
Paint It All Red
by S.T. Abby
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King
All the Lies
by S.T. Abby
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Recursion
by Blake Crouch
Sidetracked
by S.T. Abby
The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
Scarlet Angel
by S.T. Abby
Foxglove Summer
by Ben Aaronovitch
Lies Sleeping
by Ben Aaronovitch
Joe Country
by Mick Herron
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 7
by Sui Ishida
Paladin's Hope
by T. Kingfisher
Spook Street
by Mick Herron
Summer Frost
by Blake Crouch
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
by James Tynion IV
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
by John le Carré
Bury Your Gays
by Chuck Tingle
Broken Homes
by Ben Aaronovitch
Blacktop Wasteland
by S. A. Cosby
Scorpia Rising
by Anthony Horowitz
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill