Fiction - Psychological

From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a new mind-bending thriller about a young woman whose life takes a wicked turn when she lands her dream job.The job comes with a lot of perks. A mysterious new boss is one...

Joe Forester is a recovering Christian who dreams of hosting a retreat at a local hotel with a mysterious background. After leaving a condemning church and years of pain and hurt, he moves to a small Midwest town, turning his attention to uncovering the...

Revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord. Marvin thought that was bullshit. Marvin was intelligent, quick-minded, courteous, considerate, and a smart dresser. The young lady he showed an interest in said, "Get away from me you ugly twerp." It really pissed Marvin off. Sergeant Jack...

He's known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these isolated woods. Now it's just him and the boy, and he'll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the...

There is a derelict house at the end of the street. For all but one day of the year, it remains boarded up with strict punishments in place for those foolish enough to trespass. On the one day it is open (Halloween), the nearby...

What is the meaning of human life, of living for a short period in this strange world and then leaving it alone, quietly in the silence of your soul? What is the central aim of liberal arts education? What makes the life of a...

PS. Joan of a thousand days, call it over early October, 2020 after a vagrant email flash three years earlier. The Harvey Flood of Houston, Texas devastated her house and home. The Plague Year 2020 her own apartment refused refuge from the pandemic. This...

The journey of becoming a healer is never achieved by the acquisition of knowledge, power, or external recognition. When we stop clinging to our pursuit of greatness, healing comes naturally.Unmasking: A Journey of Awakening is a soulful allegory about one man's healing journey. Mason...

The journey of becoming a healer is never achieved by the acquisition of knowledge, power, or external recognition. When we stop clinging to our pursuit of greatness, healing comes naturally.Unmasking: A Journey of Awakening is a soulful allegory about one man's healing journey. Mason...

Courtney Ramsey is a recently widowed mother, drowning in grief. She lives in the epitome of the small town stereotype in Philipsburg, Montana, in a tiny apartment where she struggles to support her kids. Tired and lonely, long hours spent working at a diner...

Ribby Balustrade didn't have a very good childhood with an abusive drunken mother to deal with.Still, she gave selflessly - entertained children at the hospital.But sometimes enough is enough...That's when a voice inside answered.And killing to her was as easy as flirting.Sometimes everything turns...

Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in...

We of the Never Never (1908) is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Based on her experience accompanying her husband Aeneas to the remote cattle station of Elsey, Gunn's novel is a fascinating masterpiece of Australian literature that explores the landscape of the continent's...

Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character's literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the arts through the lens of a man whose sole gift is to identify and...

After writing a series of children's books under the name Sugarland Books, author Harold Krakower "decided to use my imagination to write this beautiful story about a lonely author and the woman he meets, and what happens to them both over a period of...

A definitive edition of a modern master: three essential works that reveal his incomparable style, dark humor, and uncanny sensitivity to the complexities of "living in dangerous times" Includes White Noise, now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig This first...

Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. And now, his support is the one thing she can rely on: her job search has yielded nothing, and her devotion to her work has just...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

Fathers and Sons is a major work of nineteenth-century fiction and one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of all time. The story follows the relationships between a father, his sons Pavel and Arkady, and Arkady's nihilist friend Bazarov. Against the backdrop of a...

We all wish we could read people's minds and have access to their innermost doubts and feelings. Just like in real life, through the third person limited point of view The World Beside conveys the protagonists' story revealing how different perspectives or representations of...

"I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time"--Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment"Absolutely gripping"--Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Remains"Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying"--Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author...

NATIONAL BEST SELLER - From the beloved author of Inheritance "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets" (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings) Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year -...

As the Australis Star cruises for nineteen days from Sydney to Honolulu, the lives of five passengers are changed forever.Genevieve hates cruises; all that lounging around quaffing cocktails and too much food. But Peter, her husband, has bought this one for her after the...

Penny lives a mundane life teaching high school but craves more. Ignored and mocked by everyone around her, she suffers in silence while dreaming of something better. But secrets hide behind her fake smile. Sexual attraction to blood, violent fantasies, and childhood trauma from...

The archetypal Symbolist novel, and a gorgeous tapestry of death and melancholy, Bruges-la-Morte was also the first work of fiction to employ photographs in the style of Breton, Drndic and SebaldA widower, Hugues Viane, takes refuge in the decay of Bruges, living among the...

Such a quiet and ordinary wife and mother. Who will even notice what she's done?Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured...

Revered as a true gothic masterpiece, "Melmoth the Wanderer" is the last complete work by the Irish author and playwright, Charles Maturin. Since its publication in 1820 it has been admired by such authors as Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe,...

First published in 1829 at the beginning of Victor Hugo's literary career, "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" is one of the author's first mature works of fiction. It recounts the thoughts of a condemned man as the day of his execution draws...

College students Tessa Parker (Red), Inessa Alexeyev (Nessa/Stone), and Kalina Izumi (Fox) were driving one day after classes to grab some food, but the GPS was acting weird and took them down a deadly detour in the woods where now they are being hunted...

For a year and a half, morning and night, Alexandria Tackleman prayed she would be able to escape from her abusive husband and isolated life. Was this day at the beach her chance? Winston Grover had been watching the mistreated woman who looked like...

Moscow. 1998. On the edge of winter in a sleeping district slum, a little girl runs away from a family unhappy in its own way. Seeking shelter in a snow-melt world, she stumbles upon a curious little bird being chased by a dark force....

Abi had a secret life. That's why she had to die.Grace is living through every mother's worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation - and was murdered.Overwhelmed by grief, and fighting off old demons which have resurfaced, Grace tries...

Six months have passed since serial killer Phineas Slater was recaptured and put back behind bars. Liam Emerson has moved on with his life, and he's doing much better, thanks for asking. He's not drinking. He's not plagued by intrusive thoughts about the man...

"Like a Chinese Kurt Vonnegut. By turns lyrical and satirical, Wang Xiaobo's sexual comedies set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are as improbable as that genre sounds. His long overdue publication in English comes as a gift. Golden Age is funny and brave and...

After having conducted 400 regressions (past lives and childhood), Bruno Traversa now brings us anovel of fiction based on actual cases."When he had finished marking the man's skin, he falsely embraced him, then pierced hisforehead with a bullet..."This psychological thriller submerges in the story...

Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own Sean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a...

A dangerous psychopath has taken over Berlin's leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage in the terrifying and twisted new thriller from Sebastian Fitzek.'Good morning. It's 7.35 AM. And you're listening to your biggest nightmare.'This morning a dangerous psychopath is playing an...

An NPR Best Book of the Year A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in...

The tranquility of a sleepy Winnipeg morning is shattered by a grisly discovery. Salaciously posed on the steps of a Wellington Crescent mansion, a young woman grins menacingly, a sadistic welcome to those who might discover her. The pool of blood that surrounds her,...

We have been led to believe that the most private and secure possession we own is our thoughts. What if that isn't true? When police call in forensic psychology professor Elizabeth Monroe to consult in a series of strange murders, for the first time...

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Individualism. Without a doubt, individualism...

At the age of 16, in 1959, Dalton Henson, an athletic but emotionally disturbed youth living in a small central Florida town, suddenly becomes sexually attracted to prepubescent boys. This attraction gradually intensifies until it nearly completely replaces the attraction he previously felt toward...

"Hermann Burger was an artist who went the whole hog every time, didn't conserve himself. He was a man with a big longing for happiness." --Marcel Reich-Ranicki Appearing in English for the very first time, Brenner is a delightfully unusual novel full of dark...

What happens when a gang of vicious drug dealers hit the sleepy Canadian town of Serendipity?After waking up to the sound of gunshots, Annie rushes over to Ben 'The Butcher' Rough's meat shop, only to find out the man has been shot and killed....

A trilogy of stories that shatter the myths of stereotypical islands of paradise.In Promises, during the late 1960s, the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy assumes custody of her drowned fiancé's son and learns a...

A NOVEL OF TERROR AND MEDICAL SUSPENSE People put their lives in doctors' hands every day--but in no other situation is this so precisely true as at the moment the anesthesiologist looks down at you and says, "You'll be going off to sleep now...

Violet Bell is a reasonably normal American teenager. Or at least she tries to be.In To Know a Stranger, Violet finds herself stuck in an Airbnb in Montreal with her parents after a tumultuous junior year of high school. Her parents decide that Violet...

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...