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The much-anticipated end to the Harry Potter series. The final face-off between Voldy and Harry...[white-font spoilers from here on out but you should have read the series by now if you care..] I was one of the many people dying to get my hands on the seventh book when it came out, and I read the entire book in one day - no joke - because I had to see who died and who lived. I really wanted Harry to live, because I was like ten years old (yeah I started reading the series when I was seven) and of course I was rooting for the good guy but now I'm a little disappointed Voldy didn't end up killing Harry, it would have made for a less cliche and much more dramatic ending. But I love love loved the part where Malfoy's mom had to declare if Harry was dead and she asked if Malfoy was okay and Harry was all like "he's okay" and then she said he was dead...but Voldy ended up dying and Harry had kids and so did Ron and Hermione (I love them as a couple like omg)...oh JK Rowling you are a magician, a magician of a writer...[/spoilers]

In Sister of the Dead when it is revealed that Welstiel is Magiere's half brother rather than her father. Throughout the earlier books, I had believed it likely he was her father.

In The Sight when Fell didn't actually die in the river.

Doesn't really compare much to other books, but it surprised me a lot.

In A Game of Thrones when Ned gets beheaded. I saw the TV show first so I was convinced that someone somehow will save him and then the sword goes down and the next scene is with sir Ilin holding the head up to the crowd and I was like woah
In A Storm of Swords Lady Stoneheart, nuff' said
In A Feast for Crows When Joffrey gets poisoned. It was so out of the blue yet so completely expected that I was grinning like crazy when reading that part

Pretty much all of Agatha Cristie's books have at least one plot twist that you weren't expecting. My favorite is probably in Murder in the Orient Express they ALL did it!? I was definitely not expecting that.

I agree with all of that! Including in Storm of Swords when ... [/i] Robb dies I was like, , when I read that part! and also in Dance with Dragons when ... [/i] Jon gets stabbed?! And his fate is unknown...I'm really hoping he doesn't die because I am going to be really pissed. First, Ned's gone. Then Robb. C'mon!

I didn't include those two mainly because I was actually expecting them to happen...the second Jeyne was introduced, the frist thing that came to mind was " Yep, Robb's gonna die" and...same for Jon, it was bound to happen. Not that I didn't put the book down and stared at a wall for the next couple of minutes in both occasions. Expecting something to happen does not make it easier to take in, even in fiction.

Harry Potter book six. Definitely a major plot twist. Although, all in all the Potter series is REALLY good. Everyone should read that book in my opinion

I'm not sure which plot twist in HBP you're talking about. Was it Snape killing Dumbledore or the whole thing with the horcruxes?

Either way, the supposedly big deal in DH, about Harry being a horcrux, it was screamingly obvious that was going to happen if you'd paid any attention to HBP. Goodness knows, I'd seen it done, and IMO done better, in at least four fanfics before DH was released.

I don't know, maybe it's just me showing my age (I'm over 40) and not taking fully into account that the Harry Potter books are nominally a children's series. I just now finished the Hunger Games trilogy and wasn't especially surprised when Katniss shoots Coin instead of Snow in Mockingjay, either. But at least in that set, everything moved along quickly enough that there weren't any anvil-heavy clues in one book to hint at what would happen in the next. Some foreshadowing, yes, it is a trilogy after all. But not so much in any one book that you can figure out everything in the next one without actually reading it.

"The Fox and the Forest" - a short sci fi story by Ray Bradbury.