When I hear the phrase 'unusual plot twist', the movie 'Unusual Suspects' comes to mind. 'Fightclub' is another, and it is based on a book!. Books came before movies and there are many books with exciting unexpected plot twists. These are some of the best of the bunch. Read and be surprised!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Breaking Dawn (Twilight)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Host (The Host
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Holes (Holes
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
The Firm by Robin A.H. Waterfield
The Manufactured Identity (Manufactured Identity)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter)
I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Honor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Thief (The Queen’s Thief
The Human Obsession (Manufactured Identity
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter)
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas
The Lion
Destiny of the Vampire by Tina Traverse
Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes)
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
American Gods (American Gods)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays)
1984 by George Orwell
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley)
Deadly Secrets (The Greek Isles Series)
The Master’s Plan by Stephany Tullis
A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Apostle of the Tyrants by Anthony Hulse
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Tainted Trust (The King Trilogy #2) by Stephen Douglass
Web Of Shame by Patricia Fincken
The Grand Delusion (Manufactured Identity)
The Book of Occult by Simon W. Clark
The Traitor’s Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments)
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Dominoes (Dominoes)
Desecrating Solomon (Desecration)
Whispers (The Secret Watchers)
The Darkest Frost
Bold Counsel (The Trials of Sarah Newby)
The Lace Reader (The Lace Reader
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Crashing Back Down (Crashing)
Cheating to Survive (Fix It or Get Out)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Never to Know by Patricia Fincken
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Stuck in Between (Bound by Your Love)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium)
Curiosity kills the KatHA by Ashok Kallarakkal
90 Miles to Freedom by K.C. Hilton
Farsighted (Farsighted)
Crashing Down to Earth (Crashing Down to Earth)
Kings & Queens (Kings & Queens)
Shadow of the Redeemer by Anthony Hulse
The Magus by John Fowles
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters)
The Cost of Crude by Inge-Lise Goss
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
New Moon (Twilight)
Mateguas Island (Mateguas Island #2) by Linda Watkins
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years)
Galactic Energies by Luca Rossi
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot)
Eclipse (Twilight)
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Forever and Ever by Anthony Hulse
The Witch’s Vampire (Mystery Springs #1) by Jami Brumfield
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe)
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays by Agatha Christie
Spellbound in His Arms (The Greek Isles Series)
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn)
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross)
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments)
Dancing with a Dead Horse by Danielle DeVor
Cupids Poison Arrow by Anthony Hulse
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Redwall (Redwall
Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter)
Derailed by James Siegel
Scent of the Dragon by Anthony Hulse
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
One for Sorrow (Cunning Prophet)
Caged by Shanna Ehrlich
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Dom Wars: Round One (Dom Wars)
Conduit by Angie Martin
Good Queen Beth by Alan Hardy
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Use of Weapons (Culture)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
I Dream of Yellow Kites by Retta Bono
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot)
Visions (The Secret Watchers)
Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely)
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
The V Girl by Mya Robarts
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Book) (Little Golden Book) by Jon Stone
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments)
Peeps (Peeps
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
The Final Empire (Mistborn
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
And the Tide Turns by Timothy Dalton
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
The Giver (The Giver
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
Harry Styles and the New York Apocalypse by G.B. Hope
The Last Prophet by Jeff W. Horton
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children by Susan Tarr
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Every Five Years (Fix It or Get Out #2) by Christine Ardigo
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles)
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)
Divergent (Divergent
The Missing Piece by Antoine Bello
Turning Point (Kathleen Turner)
The Next Thing I Knew (Heavenly)
Turn to Me (Kathleen Turner
No Turning Back (Kathleen Turner
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse)
Stranger on Stranger by G.B. Hope
The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories for Sleepless Nights by Roald Dahl
Soul Protector (Soul Protector #1) by Amanda Leigh Cowley
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium)
I’m in Love with a Stripper by Michelle Marola
Deep into Dusk (Gabriel McRay)
Caged by Onaiza Khan
I Am Her… (I Am Her…
The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations
White Walls by H.M.C.
Hitler the Cat Goes West by Robert G. Pielke
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings)
Red Queen (Red Queen
Double Trouble by D.M. Wolfenden
The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Jassy by Norah Lofts
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices)
Moonlight on Diamonds by Lydia Storm
Reality of Life (Perception
Zero Alternative by Luca Pesaro
The End of The Computer (Thunder Valley Trilogy #1) by Andre Mikhailovich Solonitsyn
The Cure Hotel by Ashley S. Clancy
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Gates to Love and War by Janie Pendleton
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by O. Henry
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell
The Shining by Stephen King
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Wired by Martha R. Carr
The Deadly Caress by O.N. Stefan
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
For the Sake of a Child by Stevie Turner
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Different Seasons by Stephen King
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Universe)
Insurgent (Divergent
The Tied Man
Patriot Games
Room by Emma Donoghue
Turn on a Dime (Kathleen Turner)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Blank Slate by Tiffany Snow
The Wee Free Men (Discworld)
The Shack by William Paul Young
Familiar Scars by Christy Leigh Stewart
Heavy Duty People (Brethren Trilogy #1) by Iain Parke
Walden by Michael T. Dolan
A Real Basket Case
The Trouble With Being God: A Philosophical Thriller by William F. Aicher
Tropical Dreams by Kelly Cozzone
London Fields by Martin Amis
Confidential Communications by J.R. Reardon
Nate Rocks the World (Nate Rocks)
Cracked Hearts by Linda Masemore Pirrung
Clockwork Prince
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge by Nancy Holder
You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark
Elantris (Elantris
Hopeless
Explosion in Paris by Linda Masemore Pirrung
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Artemis Fowl
The Notebook (The Notebook)
Things Fall Apart
A Twist in the Tale by Jeffrey Archer
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
Tempted (House of Night
The Unwords by Non Nomen
Kidnapped Hearts (Band of Friends)
Lex (Unconventional Hearts #1) by S.K. Logsdon
Witch in the Woods (Witch in the Woods
Angels at the Gate by T.K. Thorne
A Job From Hell (Ancient Legends)
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower
Clearly’s Corruption (Witch In The Woods)
Outside (Outside #1) by Shalini Boland
The Terminal Connection by Dan Needles
Corruption of Power by G.W. Eccles
Perception of Life (Perception
Guardian of Time (The Prophecies)
Palette of Love by Ashok Kallarakkal
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Scent of a White Rose (The Rose Trilogy
Dreams Unleashed (The Prophecies)
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan Universe)
The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Shadowfever (Fever
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Into the Arms of Madness by Regina Pacelli
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Nurtured Evil by Anthony Hulse
La Cucaracha by Chloe Jarren
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices)
Delirium (Delirium)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
One Day by David Nicholls
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Kestrel’s Midnight Song by J.R. Parker
Midnight Sin by Michael Tabman
Rose Madder by Stephen King
Who’s Your Daddy
Advent by David Miller
Fifteen Weekends (The Weekends Series)
Half Built Houses by Eric Keller
Caged in Darkness (Caged)
Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing by Steven Luna
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada)
Dante’s Journey by J.C. Marino
The Adventures of Armstrong Dent: The Complete First Season by Aeyess
Without Wax by William Walsh
All My Life (First Things
The Blue Journal: A Detective Anthony Walker Novel by L.T. Graham
Outlander (Outlander
The Vampiric Housewife (The Vampiric Housewife)
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay
The Maze Runner (Maze Runner
Insomnia by Stephen King
I Will Wait for You: Eternal Bliss by Linda Masemore Pirrung
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Perpetual Night by Georgina Morales
Seducing the Myth by Lucy Felthouse
Misery by Stephen King
Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles)
Pretties (Uglies
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Last Child by John Hart
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot)
Naked in Death (In Death
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone)
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Where There’s Smoke by Sandra Brown
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy)
It by Stephen King
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Torment (Fallen)
Shattered by Karen Robards
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Children of Paranoia (Children of Paranoia)
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
Nocturne
Dead Size by Sawney Hatton
A Warm Place to Call Home by Michael Siemsen
Black Lies by Alessandra Torre
Sky Ghosts: All for One (Sky Ghosts)
Asleep by Krystal Wade
Valentina by S.E. Lynes
The Fridge Drawings by D. Bunyan
Creatures of Appetite by Todd Travis
Spiderstalk by D. Nathan Hilliard
The Suicide Princess by Anthony Bryan
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Dom Wars: Round Four (Dom Wars
The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse)
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Dancing Bear by Oren Sanderson
The King of Attolia (The Queen’s Thief
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Moby-Dick or
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Snowman (Harry Hole)
The Meat Market (Jonathan Harkon Adventures #1) by James Chalk
Precipice by Melissa Luznicky Garrett
Ancestors & Angels by Jane L. Cranmer
Chill Run by Russell Brooks
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Arielle Immortal Quickening (Immortal Rapture)
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Allegiant (Divergent
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Something Rotten (Thursday Next)
Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter)
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey
The Unexpected Guest: A Play In Two Acts by Agatha Christie
The Druids’ Keep (The Sword of Shannara
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren)
The Witness by Sandra Brown
Unwind (Unwind
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle
Hello
Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle)
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
The Woods by Harlan Coben
Henry V by William Shakespeare
The Search by Nora Roberts
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme
High Noon by Nora Roberts
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Touch & Go (Tessa Leoni)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Loves Music
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Bloodlines (Bloodlines
One Night of Regrets: A Story of Restoration and Grace by Beverly S. Harless
The William S Club by Riley Banks
Upgrade by Stephen Hise
The Wide Game (Harmony
The Alter-Ego of Insanity by Reyna Hawk
Chasing Justice (Piper Anderson)
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
Gatsby’s Smile by Morana Blue
Dead Underground (Alec Mercer)
Dying to Survive by Scott Hildreth
Lost in Los Angeles by Jenny Lynne
The Eagle’s Secret by Erez Aharoni
Breaking Kate (Acceptance
An Interrupted Love Story (Can You Mend It? #1) by Billy Wood-Smith
Startup by Glenn Ogura
Twisted Tears by Stan Taylor
The Acheron Deception by Patrick F. Rooney
Strictly Professional (Strictly Professional #1) by Sherri Hayes
Lunar Options by T.R. Locke
The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Beverly Hills is Burning (Rail Black Novels
Shrouded Passions by Faye Hall
Rubies of the Viper by Martha Marks
Churning Waters (Churning Waters Saga) by Meredith T. Taylor
Dom Wars: Round Six (Dom Wars
Dividers by Travis Adams Irish
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
A Kiss Before You Leave Me by James Hulbert
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Poseidon’s Children (The Legacy of the Gods)
Virtual Justice (A Lorne Simpkins Thriller)
City of War (Rail Black Novels)
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Dom Wars: Rounds 1
Dom Wars: Round Five (Dom Wars)
Torn Apart by M.A. Comley
Passions in the Dust by Faye Hall