Fiction - Psychological

Madeline McKinsey suffered a terrible tragedy that left her scarred, physically and emotionally. Her fear exists in the fog, just outside her reach.Doctor Matthew Kirsch gives her hope. He trains her to use lucid dreaming to identify the terror that lurks in the shadows...

On a cold day in Washington, D.C., Bill Sinclair received a phone call that chilled him to the bone. And he didn't scare easily. He was a former Navy SEAL who had merged back into society as a CPA and was enjoying spending time...

The Parasite is a classic work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a fascinating story about the potential danger of mesmerism, penned before anyone knew much about hypnosis. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows...

This classic ghost story is set on the isolated islands of Orkney as a man runs from the horrors he encountered in the North American wilderness. Jim Peace returns to his brother, Tom, and their childhood home in the Orkneys after spending 30 years...

Sandra, the new intern, finds herself in Gretchen's crosshairs. Gretchen has used her authority and unpleaseant personality to make past interns leave. Sandra enlists the help of her sister, Abby, who also works in the same office, to remove one obstacle...Gretchen. Abby, as the...

When no one stands up to a bully, can anyone be truly safe? "Weaves together a tender and poignant coming-of-age story with a powerful narrative." -Lyn Yeowart, author of The Silent ListenerTormented at school, ten-year-old Jane wants a best friend more than anything. Her...

A provocative and thoroughly feminist "cult classic" (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms--now returning to print for the first time in over a decade I am glad I have the...

Steven is not your typical psychotherapist. Operating in the unique realm of Re-live therapy, a part of the treatments is The Slap, a controversial move Steven regrets after a session with a client. Grappling with the nuances of love, therapy, and self-development, Steven finds...

The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by "the paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times) "Can't sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . ....

Cameron Simmons has always been haunted. It begins as a child, when Cam's father bestows upon him an insult that will take a lifetime to outlive, blaming his slow development on a fictitious tortoise in his hair. From there, Cam's hauntings multiply: The constant...

"Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer."--Washington PostUnfolding during an invasion of Gaza, The Lover tells the story of an affair between a young Israeli soldier and a Canadian woman. The emotional realities of ideology and war begin to change the lovers, who undergo a...

Patrick thought he knew what awaited him in the afterlife. He's learning the hard way that he was dead wrong. He is hunted by a race of giant beasts, the likes of which have never been seen by living eyes, and he is surrounded...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true storyThere are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention...

Toddlers and playdates and white picket fences. Afternoons in the park, steak on the grill-all in the perfect neighborhood.Gabby was living a life that many people could only wish for and she was over it. It wasn't that she disliked her world-it wasn't that...

Accursed, the final book in The Realm series, puts Patrick, his son Doug, and his granddaughter Gabby together in a fight against an evil that is hungry for the souls of all the people he loves-of every soul who would descend from his line.Surrounded...

The spellbinding story of a young woman's dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close--unnaturally close. They've grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her...

Adrift in self-imposed emotional and spiritual oblivion, reclusive attorney Richard Jason Steele struggles through alarming personal and professional anxieties to isolate and define the roots of his lethargy by embracing yet ultimately rejecting the philosophical paradigms of his one-time intellectual idol Ludwig Wittgenstein. His...

A bestselling novel by a distinguished author brings to life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them. Beautifully written and filled with the insight and compassion Godwin is known for, "Evensong" is about...

A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor--a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth An Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated...

Anyone who handles a patient load knows how difficult some can be. Dr. Selwood (a neuropsychologist) had a real doozy of a case assigned to her, Dr. Arthur McAiden. When McAiden first began his outpatient stint at the Kessler Institute he had trouble stringing...

The world's most famous author has vanished. A thrilling hunt of mind games and twisting suspense begins when a detective sees evidence written into her novel.Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She...

THE ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR.My husband and I are desperate for a baby. So I stole one.All my adult life, I've longed for a baby. We tried IVF. We tried everything. Now we're waiting to adopt. We have a...

There's a cost to keeping secrets... Everyone knows about the fight between Kathleen Walsh and her sister on the night she disappeared. For six months, no one has heard from Kathleen. Not her bullying husband, not her teenage son, and not her devastated sister...

The world's most famous author has vanished. A thrilling hunt of mind games and twisting suspense begins when a detective sees evidence written into her novel.Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She...

A fast-paced, twisty psychological debut about the complexities of marriage and new motherhood, told through the frenetic lens of a wife seeking the truth about her husband, at all costs, as the validity of the life she once knew unravels page by page. Liz...

Revisiting the past threatens a woman's future, in a stunning new thriller by the author of The Good Child. Sally is about to launch her highly anticipated true crime book, which recounts the unsolved, long-ago abduction she survived-and her best friend did not. Despite...

In the middle of a forest, in an unknown location, is a game. A psychological game designed to play with the mind until it breaks.The man responsible wants fresh meat. Someone who hasn't experienced the horrors of the real world. He wants to see...

Dr. Brian Standish isn't happy. His wife thinks he's a misanthropist, but Brian believes he merely hates most people.He never wanted to be a hematologist, or a doctor for that matter. But he is and doesn't like what he sees daily at Kilminster General,...

The most influential book of Taiwan's #MeToo movement--a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women's vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive.Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi...

Lena is fourteen, her sisters are crazy, her parents work all the time, and her mother can't see her. Her best friend is an Irish setter dog named Zelda. Running every day with Zelda through the woods in southern Oregon keeps Lena from falling...

For use in schools and libraries only. Investigating a series of savage murders that disrupt a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.Author: D. Preston, Douglas J. PrestonISBN-10:...

A tense psychological thriller... Sarah, an ambitious senior manager for a prestigious departmental store decides to find a partner using an on-line dating website. After rejecting eleven potential suitors, she reads the profile of Jez Steadman, the twelfth, and believes he has possibilities -...

A bright Texas university student named Anthony is faced with threats from his professor, who lies about the student to protect himself. He goes so far as to send Anthony to a psych ward to protect his own reputation, while branding the student as...

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities...

The day after her eighteenth birthday, Julia Reeves checks herself into a psychiatric facility, longing to find a way out of the grief and guilt that have engulfed her since her father's untimely death. What she finds is fellow suicide attempt survivor Sam Lorenzo,...

At this point in the story, Diane thought it best she delegate the writing of Prologues and Epilogues to me. I am Annie, granddaughter to Janet and John. Remember, Diane is writing these books after the year 2000, over 30 years after the events...

Now that John is seeking help with his fears, things are returning to the status quo. Janet's focus turns to the decisions and changes that are always considered at the formal mill end-of-year meeting. Specifically, John's possible promotion to Supervisor. Becoming a Supervisor would...

The jaw-dropping new psychological thriller from the best selling author of The Boy in the Park Amber is happy, she loves her husband David and their dog Sadie, she even loves her job as a junior editor on a local newspaper. But when the...

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow."The true mystery Lapid seeks to unveil is one of the most burning questions of our time: What does it mean to be a woman in today's...

A married couple borrows a luxurious home on the Norwegian fjords, entangling themselves in a web of lies when they pretend to be the owners. Chilling, darkly funny psychological suspense by the author of The Bird Tribunal. Married couple Karin and Kai are looking...

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all...

From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson comes Silent Witness, an "intense courtroom drama... as startling as the bang of a gavel." (People). After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to...

Once he was broken beyond repair. Now this MMA contender is fighting to be a better man--for her. RT Book Reviews proclaims that the O'Brien Family series from award-winning author Cecy Robson "has the hottest brothers ever " And in Let Me, it is...

What choice did she really have? With the perfection of Labbitt Halsey Genomics' groundbreaking XEN protocol, no conscientious parent could deny the tantalizing possibilities. At least that's what Ann Franklin's husband convinced her of at the time they chose to conceive. Her son was...

'Truly gripping' SUNDAY EXPRESS A dark, twisty, and gripping psychological thriller that will suit fans of SISTER SISTER, by Sue Fortin, and BEHIND HER EYES by Sarah Pinborough. Five years ago, Clare killed her family - her husband, her father, and one of her...

Bestselling author Lucinda Berry serves up a haunting thriller about four friends sworn to secrecy over the events of one fateful summer--and the dark truths that threaten to erupt years later.They never considered how his wife might react, or that by the end of...

Patrick Vitullo presents a psychological narrative that explores themes of obsession, racism, sexism, police brutality and vigilantism in the backdrop of a Philadelphia gentlemen's club that is the intersection of two male characters and one female character. The intersection of the three people results...

THE UNIVERSE IS TRYING TO KILL HIM.Lahn just wants to ignore the world, build some code with his AI, and hide from the starless green sky.But when horrible visions of future-tech destruction invade his carefully curated calm, he will have to risk his life...

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows "addictively charming antihero" (The Washington Post) Joe Goldberg to the hallowed halls of Harvard, where he leaves crimson in his wake. "Twisted . . . delightfully...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...