Sometimes a surprise ending turns an ok book into a winner. Sometimes a surprise ending can leave you feeling deflated and even a feeling you've been cheated by the author. How you feel about stories not turning out the way you imagine will have you ever reaching for or running away from these books with surprise endings.
1 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
An installment in the phenomenally popular Hercule Poirot series, many critics believe The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd to be the very best in the Poirot franchise, Agatha Christie has all of her best plot twist expertise on hand from start to finish!
Water For Elephants isn’t necessarily a page turning plot twister full of unsolvable mysteries, but the book’s ending will definitely come as a surprise to everybody that reads it.
The cult of Fight Club is one that has permeated all of our pop culture sine the Brad Pitt and Ed Norton film adaptation, but it is still worth giving the amazing original book a read.
Gone Girl took over the world to become the absolute must read of a few years ago, and much of its hype came from its unpredictable and crazy plot twists and ending.
And if you enjoyed Gone Girl, you might want to look further back in Flynn’s career to her 2007 novel Sharp Objects, another fantastic novel full of surprises.
This is one of those stories that will literally make you questions everything! A teenage girl wakes up from a coma and needs to find out every single fact about her life from scratch.
Fingersmith is an enthralling tale set in Victorian London that involves a hidden lesbian love affair and so many plot twists that you will end up dizzy!
A modern classic set in the midst of the Second World War that centers around the devastation that a simple lie can wreak on a cast of character’s lives.
A quite amazing novel that tells the dramatic and emotional tale of two sisters; one with life threatening cancer and one whose apparent purpose is to serve as a readily available organ donor. Ends with a real bang.
A modern legal thriller that contains all of the best classic feeling genre elements while also bringing an innovative and at times shocking conclusion.
Very much in the vein of Gone Girl, The Girl On The Train is a recent novel that took the reading world by storm and provided an irresistible turn paging experience all the way to the end.
A gripping book in which the protagonist finds themselves trapped in a military base with only the voice of a mysterious boy in the next cell to seek information from.
Another novel recently turned in to a movie, Before I Go To Sleep tells the mysterious tale of a woman who suffers with daily amnesia after a savage attack.
The first in a popular young adult series about a group of teenagers who are mysteriously trapped in a high walled compound surrounded by a huge and dangerous maze.
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