Fiction - Psychological

Will Chaffee has done everything right.At thirty-two he's built Sawbuck - a fintech platform serving the people the system was never designed to help - and just closed a billion-dollar Series A. He has the right apartment, the right woman on his arm, the...

Amara never fit inside the life her mother built, one dripping in wealth, secrets, and pills she's forced to swallow "for her own good."Her mother, Paige, has spent years trying to silence the voice haunting Amara's mind. But the voice hasn't faded. It's only...

Clara moved to the ridge to reorder a life by habit: lists, seeds, fences. When she finds bones and a half-sealed chamber in the yard, the tidy rhythms she relies on start to fragment. Visions and a steady lullaby follow-memories not all her own-and...

DARCY BELIEVED HONESTY WOULD COST HIM EVERYTHING. THEN HE JOINED THE MEN'S GROUP. Failed New York screenwriter Darcy Mattews is already frustrated with life, but it gets worse when his girlfriend breaks up with him and he hangs up the phone on his cancer-stricken...

I started this novel in response to a new tenant at our apartment building in Arlington, Virginia. It was startling to see an individual so caught up in racist hate that several old-timers in the building were alarmed at the overt hatred directed at...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a haunting classic of transformation, alienation, and the absurd. When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself changed into a monstrous insect-like creature, his ordinary family life collapses into fear, shame, and isolation. As Gregor...

What if you live in Denver metro, and in one day, you must find or make a bunker, filled with non-perishable food, water, and cold weather clothing to last for ten years, and manage to prevent volcanic ash particles getting into the air you...

The mental breakdown of a boy. 'No one will save you'. What breaks a boy? Muhammad has just turned fourteen yet his life is already ended; his slow descent has begun. The disassociation with the people in his life leads him into a world...

Cyril Galanos lives an isolated life in a cabin in the woods. The monotony of his days is shattered when he finds a dying man with a collar collapsed near one of his hunting spots. Overwhelmed by an urge to help him, Cyril takes...

My husband told me he had a plan to solve all our problems. Then our little girl went missing. My heart was broken. And I wondered... what did he mean, exactly? What was his plan?Because now another child is missing...Seven-year-old Cassie disappears from her...

"A Voyage to Pagany" is a compelling modernist novel by the celebrated American poet and physician William Carlos Williams. Drawing on the author's own experiences during the 1920s, the narrative follows Dr. Dev Evans as he embarks on a transformative journey across Europe. Traveling...

Will Chaffee has done everything right.At thirty-two he's built Sawbuck - a fintech platform serving the people the system was never designed to help - and just closed a billion-dollar Series A. He has the right apartment, the right woman on his arm, the...

If you have ever felt different from the world around you... this story may feel strangely familiar.Tar was born among wolves, yet from his earliest days something inside him set him apart from the rest of the pack. While others learned to hunt without...

Bobby Bravo is an aging ex-minister who never planned on starting over.In his fifties, broke and out of options, he steps onto a tired used car lot in Central California-Navarro's Used Cars-a desperate place where the men under the awning don't ask questions. They...

Set in an unforgiving and often violent fictional land reminiscent of 17th century Spain, The Flute and the Otter is the story of Jacob's quest for wisdom, facing numerous challenges and threats to his life. As he struggles to incorporate the lessons of mindfulness...

My husband Henry is missing - and there's a dead body in my bed.Six weeks ago, Henry wrapped his truck around a telephone pole. Now he's laid up at home with a shattered leg. We're drowning in debt.We might lose our home.Then our new...

"Villette" is a profound and intensely psychological novel by Charlotte Brontà that explores the inner life of Lucy Snowe, a young woman who, after suffering an unspecified family tragedy, travels to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette. Taking up a position as a teacher...

New city. Same mistakes. Different accents.When Celeste looks in the mirror, she sees a lifetime of fairy tale dreams shattered - but when she leans a little closer... she can see the life she deserves in her smile lines. A year after moving to...

In the dust-choked plains of West Texas, nineteen-year-old Alexander dreams of escape of speed, freedom, and a life far beyond the limits of his small-town roots. When he leaves everything behind for the neon promise of California, he finds more than he bargained for:...

A hauntingly honest and fiercely lyrical fictional memoir, this book traces one woman's journey through trauma, family secrets, inherited memory, and the reverberations of history across continents and generations. Marked by a mysterious birthmark passed down through her family, Deborah always felt haunted by...

Some lives are chosen. Others are decided for you.Mirela never believed she would become the kind of person who simply accepts what is placed in front of her. But when her future is arranged without her consent, resistance begins to feel less like strength...

Ruined for Life? follows Erica and her father, Colin, leading up to and after her traumatic assault. While Erica is in hospital in a coma, the local community focuses on Colin. He is arrested for assaulting and strangling his daughter. He is beaten up...

She escaped once. He won'Äôt let her escape again. Annie Grey comes home hoping the worst is behind her, but peace feels out of reach in a town that watches, whispers, and never lets her forget. She tries to rebuild her life one careful...

When two teenagers are found dead at Bellwick's abandoned docks, the police are quick to call it a tragic accident. But Percival Hoover isn't convinced.He's a talking Pembroke Welsh Corgi - impeccably dressed, sharply observant, and the town's most respected private detective. How and...

"Strait Is the Gate" (La Porte Étroite) is a profound exploration of the tension between human passion and religious devotion. Written by Nobel Prize winner André Gide, this tragic novel follows the complex relationship between Jerome Palissier and his cousin, Alissa Ashburton. Set against...

What Happened NextA Mind-Bending Psychological ThrillerSome memories are weapons. Some secrets can destroy you. And sometimes, the person you trust most is the one who has been erasing your mind.By Mike Vex The SetupElena Marsh has spent eight years in therapy with Dr. Adrian...

Julie Esther Fisher has written a work so moving, so poetic, so layered and subtle that it feels as if we have always been plumbing the depths of these unforgettable characters. ... Like the restorer who uses spirit to remove centuries of dirt, Fisher...

"Der Meister" is a compelling novella that examines the psychological and spiritual dimensions of architectural creation. The story centers on a master builder whose life is defined by his intense commitment to his craft and the monumental projects he oversees. Through this character, Josef...

What begins as a brief, accidental exchange turns into a quiet thread running through her evenings-conversations that feel easy, unforced, and strangely grounding. There's no plan, no expectation, and no reason to think it will become anything more.But something shifts-slowly, subtly-in the pauses, in...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the most ambitious novel by the author of To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway Intensely lyrical and stylistically innovative, The Waves has been hailed as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It interweaves the voices of six characters, three boys and...

Caleb Marsh is freezing in a Chicago apartment, staring at a blank screen, a failure. Then the dreams start. A library with no ceiling. A stone floor. A girl named Lily reading aloud from a book he cannot touch. When Caleb wakes, the prose...

Author: William S. BurroughsISBN-10: 0802122671ISBN-13: 9780802122674Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2026Pages: 176Format: Paperback

"Bring! Bring! And Other Stories" is a compelling collection of short fiction by the celebrated author and poet Conrad Aiken. Known for his profound exploration of the human psyche, Aiken presents a series of narratives that delve into the complexities of consciousness, memory, and...

A gangster hitman. A shoemaker. One shot at grace.Carrying his broken shoe, Tim Randall steps into Billy Cranny's quiet shop and straight into the shadow of a decades-old crime that binds Billy with hitman Ronnie Rhodes, who uses his sharp mind and cold instincts...

In these 9 exquisite, moving stories from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review), people struggle to connect in a cold, uneasy world. Looking to escape his past, a Swiss ski instructor relocates to a German resort, where he develops...

From prize-winning author Aurora Venturini, a masterful and acerbic novel about a successful artist in her 80s returning to her hometown in Argentina after decades living and working in Europe, reckoning with old and new friends, lovers, and ideas In a breathless, incantatory voice,...

St. Barth's has a murder rate of zero. But that's about to change. "Utterly delectable and addicting . . . Sunburned is what happens when Agatha Christie meets a thoroughly modern, sexy sensibility."--Ashley Winstead, USA Today bestselling author of Midnight Is the Darkest Hour...

The Power Behind Closed Doors Behind every closed door lies a story no one else sees. The Power Behind Closed Doors is a powerful and emotionally gripping exploration of the hidden forces that shape our lives, secrets, control, resilience, and the quiet strength it...

In this gripping alternate reality thriller by international bestselling author Holly Seddon, one woman must navigate a life that was never meant to be hers in order to uncover unsettling truths about her past and the man she loves. Librarian Maya is traveling home...

Acclaimed by the 20th-century Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin for its "polyphony" (a literary concept introduced by Bakhtin to describe a plurality of voices within a narrative), The Idiot is regarded by modern critics as one of Dostoevsky's most experimental and artistically uneven novels.The novel...

"An astounding and original thriller with a complex relationship between three women at its heart and an explosive conclusion." --B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author The next gripping psychological thriller by the author of the bestselling How I Lost You follows a...

"Dennis Cooper, a disturbing and transcendent artist, enters the mind of a killer and comes out with a genuine revelation."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the "disquieting genius" (Vanity Fair) Dennis Cooper, Frisk is the second novel in the controversial and award-winning George Miles Cycle--a murder mystery...

Seven siblings enter the woods to grieve their parents' death and walk into a haunted circus that feeds on family secrets. As lies are exposed and blood is spilled, only truth and sacrifice can end the show. A brutal adult horror novel where guilt...

Everyday Fears explores the hidden anxieties, quiet struggles, and unspoken worries that shape our daily lives. From the small moments that make our hearts race to the deeper fears that keep us awake at night, this powerful and relatable work offers a compassionate look...

When reality fractures and dreams begin to bleed into waking life, truth becomes the most dangerous illusion of all.In The Mayfly, Thomas Mild delivers a dark psychological thriller centered on Eli, a woman haunted by vivid dreams that appear to predict brutal crimes before...

Sanctuary was published in 1931 by William Faulkner (1897-1961), one of America's greatest authors and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Originally the novel bore the steamy summary "Ole Miss coed Temple Drake ends up the sex slave of a gangster named Popeye."...

Seamus Vorbex has had a long career in law enforcement. But after a tragic accident on the job, his confidence shatters, leaving him on extended desk duty. His exciting and meaningful career has slowly morphed into a mind-numbing existence devoid of genuine fulfillment. This...

Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf" is a profound psychological novel that delves into the existential angst of an intellectual adrift in society. This seminal work explores the inner turmoil and complex dualities within its protagonist, a man grappling with his own wild, untamed nature against the...

The job: An American novel explores a woman's pursuit of autonomy in a society structured to limit her aspirations. The narrative moves beyond domestic expectation to confront the barriers women face when stepping into public and professional spheres. As the central figure attempts to...

In the shadow of Cambridge's dreaming spires, a young woman named Rose Angwen embarks on a radical quest: to fuse the deepest currents of sexual experience with the highest reaches of philosophical knowledge. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1980s Britain-marked by political extremism,...