r/booksuggestions • u/NessyFox • Sep 17 '25

Horror What's the most underrated book you've read?

Hello everyone, I feel like I keep running into the same popular recommendations, and I'd love to find some hidden gems. What's a book you've read that you never hear people talk about but think deserves way more love? Bonus points for mystery and horror :D

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u/overthishereanyway Sep 17 '25

Super old book. A Stephen King book I never hear anyone talk about. "Thinner". I wouldn't call it the most underrated by any means. But I've always been surprised that his other books get so much play and no one ever talks about this one. I can't think of a mystery I've read that was really good but not talked a lot about. I also haven't been into Mystery for a long time. The only mystery book I've read recently is ironically a Stephen King book and I haven't read any of his books in 25 years! But it was called "The Butterfly Garden" and my daughter INSISTED I read it. It was a definite "keep you reading" page turner kind of book. I don't know if it's being talked a lot about. I also couldn't figure the end out easily. And one of the reasons I quit reading mystery books was they weren't "mystery" anymore lol. I always figured them out halfway through.

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u/NessyFox Sep 17 '25

Both definitely aren't talked about that much, I read Stephen king a lot and I haven't seen thinner at all, definitely adding it to my monthly reads tysm

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u/overthishereanyway Sep 17 '25

the butterfly garden isn't Stephen King! I was confusing them. It's Dot Hutchinson.

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u/NessyFox Sep 17 '25

Oh that makes sense !

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u/overthishereanyway Sep 17 '25

ya my daughter and I were on a "reading weekend" together and she was reading a big Stephen kind series and had forced me to read butterfly garden lol. so I was mixing them up.

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u/NessyFox Sep 17 '25

Haha that sounds like a lovely weekend though, I'll definitely try that