Psychological category: 8170 books

A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong “She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car.” Limerick, Ireland: the O’Brien family’s driveway. American...

A terrifying trio of Psychological Thrillers from the bestselling authors, Mark Edwards and Louise Voss. ‘I was gripped all the way.’ Peter James Catch Your DeathTwenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at research centre where scientists hunted for a cure for the common cold virus – then...

**Selected by the Modern Library as two of the 100 best novels of all time Nostromo** Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled...

“Human All-Too-Human” is the name of book, that was Nietzsche's first work in the aphoristic style that became dominant in his writings. The work marked for Nietzsche a new "positivism" and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. “Human,...

“The Double” is a novella by Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881). His literature famously examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and political atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and...

For an unsuspecting group of friends, a hike through the forest turns into a desperate fight for survival Mr. Rogers is the ideal guide for a few neighbors looking to survey a large, wooded piece of property: He remembers every tree, stream, and bush; when there’s a fork in the road, he knows...

What if you came home to find a stranger living inside your house? An "oustanding, ever-twisting, surprise-filled" psychological drama (Publishers Weekly), in the tradition of Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, from Edgar- and Thriller Award-nominated author Laura Benedict. There's...

In this intimate debut thriller in the vein of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, an award-winning mystery writer delves into the mind of a young woman who’s closer to murder than she’d like to admit. “This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths...

From the author of Drowned, a passionate psychological drama where questions of power and sexuality are brought to a head. ** ** She works at Norrköping Hospital, at the very bottom of the hierarchy: in the cafeteria, below the doctors, the nurses, and the nursing assistants. But she dreams of one...

An amnesiac hunts for his lost life in every corner of New York City in this “brilliant” novel from the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle (Chicago Tribune). Sunrise in Central Park. A man wakes up on a park bench with no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clues to his...

**An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow—now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee A Penguin Classic** Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series...

"[A] future cult classic." —The New York Times Book Review "There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." —The Washington Post Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington...

The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman’s long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense. It’s an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence....

“Eerily beautiful . . . [Chaon] is the modern day John Cheever.”—Boston Sunday Globe **“Powerful and disturbing . . . The shocks in this collection are many.”—The Washington Pos**t These haunting, suspenseful stories by acclaimed author Dan Chaon feature scattered families,...