Psychological category: 8170 books

Shanghai, 1927: hot, teeming, mysterious. Kenneth Ayres, a disciple of Freud, is an anonymous expatriate treating the lonely wives and daughters of British colonials. When Julia Paradise, the wife of an Australian missionary, is sent to him for psychoanalysis, he is seduced into her world, a kaleidoscope...

A real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in this clever, Kafkaesque novel of psychological suspense from the acclaimed author of The Room and The Invoice The narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. He works at a bakery counter, and in...

Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Though beloved among her large coterie of friends and relations, there are whispers that...

What if you met a complete stranger only through the sense of touch? Disillusioned with his life in the town where he lives, a man resigns his job and determines to start again elsewhere.  With the bright prospect of a new job and a new home awaiting him in another city, he patiently...

A profound examination of the mysteries of memory and perception from one of the twentieth century’s most admired literary artists The train races from New York to Boston. For Andrew Cather, it is much too fast. He will return home three days early, and he is both terrified and intrigued...

A psychological thriller She has one weekend to save her marriage. He has one weekend to save his life. A break in an isolated country hotel in a remote part of Northumberland presents Jennifer with the ideal opportunity to rekindle a marriage that's dying on its feet. For her husband...

Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking,...

This psychological thriller shows both the hypnotic appeal and the deadly danger of psychopathic seduction. This novel traces the downfall of a married woman, Ana. Feeling trapped in a lackluster marriage, she has a torrid affair with Michael, a man who seems to be her soul mate and her dream come...

In India, one woman is murdered every hour by her husband's family for a dowry. The Burning Bride follows the story of Uma, a newlywed woman. She starts her new life with many dreams. However, her dreams turn into nightmares when her parents are unable to fulfil the dowry demands made by Madhu, her...

A psychological drama with a masterful, pulse-quickening plot revolving around two seemingly very different men, who have more in common than they know.   Thomas Clarin is a divorce lawyer whose profession has fostered a deep and abiding distrust of marriage, preferring instead to "play the...

Main characters in the collection of short stories written by the Czech author Lubomr Mikisek are quite ordinary people like us. With turbulent sensitivity and often with scars on their souls, they wish to step out of their stereotypes and find someone who would understand and love them. Desire usually...

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne: 120+ Titles in One Edition (Illustrated Edition)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices....

Though he achieved literary acclaim as a dramatist, most notably with the timeless children's classic Peter Pan, author J. M. Barrie tackled many subjects over the course of his career, often grappling with philosophical and psychological topics. The breadth of his intellect is on full display in...

There's a murder in the heart of Manhattan, a simple corpse... stretched out upon a bench in Herald Square Park. On any other day, in any other city, the bloody slaying would be a sidebar of filler news for the networks to bury. But this was Christmas in the city that never slept, the Big Shiny...