Fiction - Psychological

In Marti Green's twisting novel of psychological suspense, twin sisters become engaged in a dangerous deception...Mallory Holcolm is an unfulfilled waitress and aspiring artist living in a Queens boardinghouse when she learns something astonishing about her past: she has an identical twin sister named...

Vendela Vida's fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint. Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want to die alone,...

THE NIGHT CLASS is a coming of age drama, the story of Samantha (Sam) Bower, a young university teaching assistant, who is studying hard to make a career for herself as a psychologist, while also struggling to overcome the trauma of a childhood of...

National Book Award-winning author James Dickey's New York Times bestseller Deliverance is an unforgettable tale of violent action and profound inner discovery--the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film starring Burt Reynolds and John VoightONE OF MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...

"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...

"An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph."--Anthony Burgess"Foucault's Pendulum is Eco's magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco puts himself in the grand and acerbic tradition of Petronius, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire."--Chicago Tribune"Rich and...

Author: Hanna BervoetsISBN-10: 0063271613ISBN-13: 9780063271616Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2023Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.40w x 0.50d

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE*An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious...

Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017Gifted troubleshooter John Smith, introduced in the acclaimed thriller Killfile, must take down a shadowy figure who has weaponized the internet, using social media to put a price on the heads of his targets in this intense, unstoppable thriller...

Childhood betrayal casts a long shadow...From the author of The Haven and The Cliff House, this is a devastating thriller set in a Cornish boarding school.'A gripping page-turner' Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding PartyAt a bleak boys' boarding school in Cornwall in the...

Gripping new suspense from the author of Little White Lies 'Written with subtle intelligence and quiet menace' Daily Mail'Beautifully written and very tense' Jane Shemilt 'A tense, cat and mouse tale . . . compelling' Catherine Cooper, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chateau'Had...

In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer...

Most survivors of gun violence must bear the burden of uninvited fantasies of revenge. First against the perpetrator, then as the nightmare leaks into the waking world, against them - the cynical, morally deprived, depraved system that let it happen, that keeps letting it...

She wakes up in a 1973 Volkswagen Kombi, naked and afraid...An aspiring singer/songwriter, Sophie Francis is searching for inspiration, pining for connection, and desperate to know why she feels so different from everyone else. Maybe it's the ghosts whispering in the apartment above her,...

Is the man she married the man who wants her dead? Twenty-six-year-old Emma Hollis is about to marry David, the hot guy who swept her off her feet in just four months. She feels like life couldn't be more perfect, with a job she...

In this electrifying psychological drama, two veterans readjusting to civilian life find their friendship tested when ugly truths come to light. Yemen. Iraq. Afghanistan. After returning from combat to a quiet garrison town, Dan and Richard struggle in their different ways to regain a...

A dancer's fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cutthroat world of professional ballet by debut author Melanie Hamrick. Five years into her career at the North American Ballet, Sylvie Carter has come a long way from...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe New York Times Book Review - Publishers Weekly - CrimeReads - Book Riot A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No...

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world." --Michael Cunningham"Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already...

"Once again, we have arrived at our favorite topic: fraught female friendship. This time it's young women working nights at crappy jobs in 90s London. You'll rip through this, reading through the night, as fixated on the story as Ladner's characters are fixated on...

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A LIBRARYREADS PICK *AN AMAZON EDITORS PICK "On every page there are little shimmering bombs. Like Room, where parenthood is at once...

"A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you'll never see coming. You won't soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeEvery marriage has its...

'I gobbled it up in two sittings, quickly turning pages to see what would happen next. The windswept, desolate setting, cold, gloomy manor house and dark characters created the perfect stormy day read... And did I mention the twists? Oh my goodness!' NetGalley reviewer,...

A DECEMBER INDIE NEXT PICK!Haunting and sincere, Idol, Burning subverts and astonishes. Rin Usami balances humor, obsession, heartbreak, and sacrifice in her debut, crafting a story that's both enveloping and expansive. Usami's writing is thrilling and deft, and her novel illuminates the shadows cloaking...

The highly anticipated, nerve-shredding conclusion to the #1 bestselling ARRANGEMENT trilogy...First, there was THE ARRANGEMENT-a scandalous story about Peter and Ainsley Greenburg's attempt to fix their marriage, no matter the cost.Next, came THE AMENDMENT-with their darkest secrets revealed, the couple set out in a...

"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusA piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own:...

A penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss from one of Norway's most tenacious writers: National Book Award Finalist and PEN translation prize winner Hanne rstavik Celebrated throughout the world for her candor and sensitivity to the rhythms of language, Hanne rstavik is a...

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...

In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn...

A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel). "McGregor's depiction of speechlessness, both...

Breath-taking and a little magical, The Painted Veil by British author W. Somerset Maugham is a powerful novel about the disillusionment of life. Set in both England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil follows Kitty Garstin, a beautiful upper-class socialite whose...

A gripping psychological thriller of secrets and obsession that will keep readers flipping pages to the stunning conclusion from the author whose suspenseful work has been described as "meticulous and detail-laden, with plenty of red herrings" (Kirkus Reviews).One year after her husband Zach's death,...

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if...

Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French, the celebrated English actress, bestselling author, and comedian, is the clever, touching, and compelling story of one mysterious woman trapped in a coma after a fall from a balcony. Now, lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Silvia is...

Joseph can't live with the fact that he's responsible for his daughter's death. He checks into The Gate as his final destination, but after the disappearance of a guest everything begins to unravel. Days go missing, people are acting strange, and nothing is what...

"I never knew revenge could be beautiful," Max said."It will be." Ryan smiled and raised his glass, "Worthy of its place in poetry books and art galleries."Ryan Walker, an award-winning creative director, is envious of people with goals. The only desire he has is...

Forgive and forget. Those two words have plagued Jaxxson Fox for years. He's an attractive, educated young man living a seemingly perfect life until his world is shattered by the arrest of his father, Jayyson Craig who is charged with murdering his own wife....

When an orphaned teenage boy is caught stealing food and sent to a reform school his chances of ever being free again are non-existent. But a future far worse than being government property is imminent. Will he be able to escape his fate?Kalini wants...

ROMANTIC - SUSPENSEFUL - PSYCHOLOGICALIt's the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. After months of fear, financial uncertainties, and lockdown, marriages have cracked foundations. The Sanctuary app appears in the market offering discreet lunch-break encounters among married individuals chasing either the lustful sex they...

A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents--only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls "an ingenious master of domestic suspense." In the end, I...

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is an 1889 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He worked on the book in...

He's already murdered eight women. Now, he's coming for me. We find her on a grey November day on Dartmoor, England. I'm excavating a Bronze-Age cairn, expecting to find a burial urn and maybe some bronze tools if I'm really lucky. And then I...

There once was a girl.A beautiful girl with the world at her palms.But then the girl slowly and surely discovered, The world she once loved was nowhere to be found.Happiness and hope?That's for fairy tales.There's no prince charming to the rescue, No knight in...

Sex, lies, and betrayal brought them here... It's only been a short time since Katie Parker's husband of twenty years left their oceanfront cottage and she filed for divorce after learning of his affairs with two women - one of whom stalked her, tried...

Izzy a young single mother has faced depression her entire life in the dark alone. When her episodes begin to get out of control, she seeks out a therapist who encourages her to do something she's never done before, so she decides to take...

From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend, Mann's writes...

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these ten strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test...

After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated at school, Sarah befriends...

The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy--acclaimed author of Remainder and C--Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast--dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent,...