{"id":5344,"count":154,"description":"Thrillers are books that have a sense of urgency and are written to make the reader turn the pages\u2014rather than stopping to reflect on the beauty of a sentence or an idea. The best ones will keep you reading late into the night, as you can't wait to find out what happens next. That said, thrillers vary widely in both content and pace. One strand, which includes classics like John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, <\/em>focuses on dangers to national security and often involves a chase. Modern spy thrillers continue this tradition. Psychological thrillers<\/a>, meanwhile, are more focused on everyday, domestic situations: something awful that might happen to an ordinary person. The classic example is Rebecca<\/em> by Daphne du Maurier. The genre is flourishing today.\r\n\r\nBecause they're often such good stories, many thrillers have been turned into blockbuster movies or Netflix series\u2014but often the book is better.\r\n\r\nTypes of Thrillers: Best Thriller Books 2025<\/a> | Psychological Thriller Books<\/a>\u00a0| Spy Thrillers<\/a> | Chase Stories<\/a> |Historical Thrillers<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/thriller-books\/","name":"Thrillers","slug":"thriller-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5344"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5344"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}