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Best Psychological Fiction

Description: Exploring the infinite landscape of the human mind.

Rank Title Author Added

1

27,455 members

377 reviews

4

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

2

The Turn of the Screw

9,441 members

295 reviews

½ 3.4

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

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,968 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

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

4

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,208 members

277 reviews

3.9

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

5

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,226 members

749 reviews

4

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

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,154 members

812 reviews

3.9

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

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,816 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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

8

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,819 members

336 reviews

4

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

9

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,740 members

576 reviews

4.2

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

10

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,761 members

131 reviews

3.8

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

11

by Sylvia Plath

32,775 members

560 reviews

4

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

12

by Virginia Woolf

23,286 members

376 reviews

3.8

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

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,174 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

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

14

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,089 members

660 reviews

4.1

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

15

by Herman Melville

41,761 members

619 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

19,674 members

367 reviews

½ 3.7

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

17

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,373 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

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

18

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,626 members

724 reviews

3.9

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

19

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,529 members

247 reviews

4

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

20

10,247 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

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

21

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

12,737 members

322 reviews

4

3 Members: DB71991, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

22

The Portrait of a Lady

12,165 members

139 reviews

3.9

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

23

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,567 members

374 reviews

4

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

24

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

47,920 members

1,395 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by José Saramago

14,621 members

432 reviews

4.1

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

26

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,523 members

870 reviews

3.9

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

27

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,382 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

28

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,752 members

212 reviews

4

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

29

33,274 members

576 reviews

4.2

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

30

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14,899 members

188 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

31

by Albert Camus

21,121 members

281 reviews

3.9

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

32

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,090 members

109 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

33

47,532 members

1,051 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Death in Venice

6,010 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Memories of a Butterfly

8 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: exvano, olonec

36

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

14,165 members

162 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

37

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,773 members

391 reviews

3.9

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

38

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,655 members

438 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

39

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

12,845 members

517 reviews

3.9

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

28,122 members

775 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy

41

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

5,012 members

101 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

42

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,999 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

43

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

10,349 members

503 reviews

4.1

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,412 members

562 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

45

The Summer of Katya

592 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

46

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,660 members

405 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

47

by Virginia Woolf

6,349 members

85 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

48

by Hermann Hesse

15,227 members

215 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati

49

Portnoy's Complaint

8,028 members

160 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, FranzK72

50

by Thomas Harris

11,172 members

96 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, spamboxyay

51

by Thomas Harris

11,387 members

125 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

52

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,968 members

167 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Secret History

25,225 members

647 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,827 members

1,014 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Stephen King

11,091 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,498 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

57

3,990 members

122 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

58

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

4,149 members

79 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

59

44,095 members

699 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

60

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,778 members

228 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,891 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

62

by Gillian Flynn

26,229 members

1,636 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

63

11,732 members

632 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

64

694 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

65

The Secrets She Keeps

by Michael Robotham

742 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

66

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,928 members

251 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

67

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

7,453 members

475 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: KimarieBee

68

28,754 members

665 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,715 members

319 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

70

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,879 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

71

by Chuck Palahniuk

9,288 members

105 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

72

by Thomas Pynchon

5,725 members

43 reviews

4

Member: roby72

73

by Margaret Atwood

9,808 members

178 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

8,794 members

90 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

75

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,492 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Woman in the Dunes

3,550 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

77

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

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,792 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

78

by Toni Morrison

5,686 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

79

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,335 members

385 reviews

4

80

The Things They Carried

16,484 members

414 reviews

4.2

81

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,394 members

519 reviews

3.8

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