Psychological category: 8170 books

'Escaping Psychiatry' has it all: intriguing characters, noir style, thrilling pursuits, dangerous situations, crime, serial killers, religion, family secrets, murder, psychological insights, mental illness, trauma, debates about prejudice and morality, heated trials, police investigations, corruption,...

Imagine living in an adult world with the emotional patience of a child. Dostoevsky has provided his readers with a first person account of this form of existential existence, with its highs and its lows and its lack of predictability. In particular, this is a story about addiction, a gambling addiction....

Can too much love be fatal? You are about to find out in this exquisite psychological drama between the owner of a pawnshop and his wife. The narrator's marriage started out cordially enough, but his miserly and reserved ways are taxing to his young wife. A dearth of communication and disagreements about...

Do honest thieves even exist? Dostoyevsky takes us through a journey of psychological exploration and discovery.

Stuart Burton is on his way to the hospital. His wife is about to give birth to their second child. He can't be late. But there is an accident, and Stuart ends up in a coma. When he wakes up, everything in his world has changed. And why are the police asking him questions...

An African-American teenager’s alienation is taken to the extreme in this cross-genre prequel to the Eve of Light series. An utterly surreal and bizarre work of Dark Metaphysical Fantasy. Deep down, Robert Goldner knows he’s a mistake. His mother told him so when he was just five years...

Chief Petty Officer, Sterling Kincaid has returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, having spent too many years as a Marine. His psychological health was being effected due to PTSD, and he genuinely longed for a peaceful and quiet retirement. To emphasize his resolve, he reluctantly left his trusty...

Embraced by endless sky. Life—to fight or fly Every nine years, under the noses of the world, the Vessel War commences. A battle between nine supernatural beings—each infused with a unique magical power, each fighting for the ultimate prize: True Immortality. The First Class Vessels:...

Heartbreaking and inspiring Civil War saga (Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice). When morphine-addicted veteran John Weldon falls in love with his best friend’s sister on the eve of Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, life gets complicated. How will Weldon hide his addiction from...

Dystopian futures develop from histories of cataclysm, societies in disrepair, and attempts to solve the problems of tomorrow.  Well, that history is now.  That irreparable society belongs to the present.  And tomorrow’s number one problem is today’s math.  One Earth ÷ 7,5XX,XXX,XXX + Overconsumption...

The Tenth Pigeon is an adult psychological crime story. The pigeons in this novel are not our feathered friends who leave their white deposits everywhere. The pigeons in this novel are human beings marked for exploitation. Some are gullible, some are stupid, some are too clever. They all have one...

"This is an unpredictable and heart-pounding mystery. A psychological thriller that's both inventive and unflinching." - KIRKUS REVIEWS Late one night, in the summer of 1999, James Davis watched helplessly as his parents were brutally murdered. Alone at seventeen, with bitter memories...

From the author of The Girl Before comes a tense and incisive work of psychological suspense that examines how easy it is to fall into the wrong relationship...and how impossible it can be to leave. In the wake of a painful breakup and struggling to prove herself at work, Julia feels adrift....

A HORRIFIC RECURRING NIGHTMARE IS THREATENING TO STEAL HER SANITY… Dr. Corinne Cabot is living the American dream. She’s a successful ER physician in Chicago who’s married to a handsome husband. Together they live in a charming house in the suburbs. But appearances can be deceiving—and...