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Best Psychological Fiction

Description: Exploring the infinite landscape of the human mind.
Members: 16 participating members
roby72, ahef1963, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda, FranzK72, kara.shamy, KimarieBee, dara85, joetaylor665, spamboxyay, kulujian, DB71991, exvano, olonec

Rank Title Author Added

1

23,345 members

334 reviews

4

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

2

The Turn of the Screw

7,801 members

242 reviews

½ 3.4

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

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,687 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

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

4

The Metamorphosis

11,858 members

203 reviews

3.9

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

5

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,044 members

614 reviews

4

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

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,777 members

671 reviews

3.9

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

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,290 members

360 reviews

½ 3.4

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

8

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,454 members

296 reviews

4

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

9

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,468 members

477 reviews

4.2

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

10

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,436 members

118 reviews

3.8

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

11

by Sylvia Plath

27,191 members

483 reviews

4

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

12

by Virginia Woolf

19,887 members

325 reviews

3.9

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

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,693 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

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

14

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,683 members

622 reviews

4.1

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

15

by Herman Melville

34,113 members

520 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

16,652 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

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

17

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,090 members

731 reviews

½ 3.7

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

18

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,723 members

643 reviews

3.9

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

19

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,783 members

221 reviews

4

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

20

8,950 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

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

21

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

10,798 members

287 reviews

4

3 Members: DB71991, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

22

The Portrait of a Lady

10,584 members

126 reviews

3.9

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

23

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,427 members

331 reviews

4.1

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

24

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

43,361 members

1,307 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by José Saramago

12,649 members

379 reviews

4.1

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

26

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,213 members

749 reviews

3.9

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

27

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,853 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

28

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,437 members

195 reviews

4

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

29

27,665 members

522 reviews

4.2

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

30

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

11,999 members

148 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

31

by Albert Camus

17,916 members

235 reviews

3.9

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

32

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,413 members

105 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

33

42,625 members

995 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Death in Venice

5,209 members

105 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

12,097 members

134 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

37

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,250 members

379 reviews

3.9

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

38

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,197 members

372 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

39

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,058 members

417 reviews

3.9

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

24,588 members

713 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy

41

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,267 members

85 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

42

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,263 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

43

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,647 members

413 reviews

4.1

3 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,658 members

491 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963

45

The Summer of Katya

533 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

46

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,422 members

373 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

47

by Virginia Woolf

5,198 members

71 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

48

by Hermann Hesse

13,139 members

182 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nagasravika.bodapati

49

Portnoy's Complaint

7,225 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, FranzK72

50

by Thomas Harris

9,542 members

84 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, spamboxyay

51

by Thomas Harris

9,770 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, nagasravika.bodapati

52

The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,073 members

138 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Secret History

19,189 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,087 members

922 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Stephen King

9,312 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,437 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

57

3,670 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

58

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,578 members

73 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

59

37,186 members

608 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, nagasravika.bodapati

60

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,455 members

219 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,118 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

62

by Gillian Flynn

21,195 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

63

9,931 members

567 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

64

579 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

65

The Secrets She Keeps

by Michael Robotham

572 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

66

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,093 members

212 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

67

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

6,877 members

465 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: KimarieBee

68

25,830 members

612 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,540 members

295 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

70

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,082 members

166 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

71

by Chuck Palahniuk

8,567 members

94 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

72

by Thomas Pynchon

5,069 members

34 reviews

4

Member: roby72

73

by Margaret Atwood

8,915 members

157 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

7,784 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

75

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,280 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Woman in the Dunes

2,953 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

77

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

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,137 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

78

by Toni Morrison

4,833 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

79

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,449 members

337 reviews

4

80

The Things They Carried

13,846 members

381 reviews

4.2

81

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,889 members

474 reviews

3.8

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