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Best Psychological Fiction

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1

24,234 members

379 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, joetaylor665, FranzK72

2

The Turn of the Screw

8,181 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, spamboxyay, joetaylor665, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,630 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Metamorphosis

12,613 members

222 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, joetaylor665, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,804 members

638 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,363 members

709 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,817 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,992 members

302 reviews

4

6 Members: kulujian, roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy, FranzK72

9

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,471 members

496 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, FranzK72

10

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,762 members

119 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Sylvia Plath

28,290 members

505 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Virginia Woolf

20,812 members

332 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,858 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,265 members

632 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

15

by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,244 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

17

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,940 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, joetaylor665

18

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,346 members

666 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,373 members

226 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

20

9,236 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, spamboxyay, ManWithAnAgenda

21

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,170 members

292 reviews

4

3 Members: DB71991, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

22

The Portrait of a Lady

10,804 members

125 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,873 members

338 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,525 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by José Saramago

13,112 members

391 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,216 members

774 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,731 members

391 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

28

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,754 members

204 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy

29

28,891 members

535 reviews

4.2

4 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,630 members

156 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

31

by Albert Camus

18,608 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,564 members

108 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

33

43,766 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Death in Venice

5,375 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Memories of a Butterfly

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: exvano, olonec

36

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,611 members

140 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

37

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,533 members

384 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy

38

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,917 members

383 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

39

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,868 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

25,424 members

730 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy

41

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,432 members

89 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

42

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,415 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

43

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,240 members

426 reviews

4.1

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,888 members

508 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

45

The Summer of Katya

548 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

46

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,963 members

370 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

47

by Virginia Woolf

5,422 members

74 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

48

by Hermann Hesse

13,613 members

195 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati

49

Portnoy's Complaint

7,405 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, FranzK72

50

by Thomas Harris

9,957 members

86 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, spamboxyay

51

by Thomas Harris

10,104 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

52

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,243 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Secret History

20,545 members

559 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,048 members

941 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Stephen King

9,652 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,701 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

57

3,753 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

58

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,715 members

76 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

59

by León Tolstói

38,691 members

633 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

60

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,542 members

222 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,313 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

62

by Gillian Flynn

22,298 members

1,547 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

63

10,338 members

583 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

64

601 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

65

The Secrets She Keeps

by Michael Robotham

612 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

66

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,262 members

221 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

67

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

7,025 members

471 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: KimarieBee

68

26,616 members

629 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,272 members

298 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

70

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,257 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

71

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,732 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

72

by Thomas Pynchon

5,222 members

36 reviews

4

Member: roby72

73

by Margaret Atwood

9,139 members

163 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

8,006 members

86 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

75

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,324 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Woman in the Dunes

3,102 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

77

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,302 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

78

by Toni Morrison

5,013 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

79

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,263 members

348 reviews

4

80

The Things They Carried

14,459 members

393 reviews

4.2

81

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,156 members

489 reviews

3.8

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