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Psychological fiction books
351 free books about psychological fiction, free to read online. Chapter 1 of any book is free, no account needed.
ReadMoby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville
The novel is a sprawling sea‑faring adventure that folds whaling lore, psychological tension, and biblical…
ReadCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This volume is a psychological detective story set in nineteenth‑century Saint Petersburg, where the…
ReadThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…
ReadThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The novel is a psychological study set among the affluent circles of Long Island, exploring first loves,…
ReadWuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The novel opens as a framed narrative, with the newcomer Mr.
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis is a work of psychological fiction that begins with a startling, almost clinical description of…
ReadThe Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The story is a first‑person psychological sketch that opens with a newly‑wed couple, John, a pragmatic…
ReadUlysses
James Joyce
James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…
ReadThe Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Lucas Malet
The novel unfolds as a densely layered domestic drama set in the early nineteenth‑century English…
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness is a psychological novella that places its concerns squarely in the realm of imperialist…
ReadEl crimen y el castigo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
El libro se presenta como una novela de intriga psicológica ambientada en la San Petersburgo del siglo XIX,…
ReadThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…
ReadThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens
The novel unfolds as a tangled tableau of Victorian intrigue, set against the looming stone tower of an…
ReadEloisa: or, A series of original letters
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…
Lady Audley's Secret
M. E. Braddon
The novel is a Victorian psychological domestic drama that opens with an elaborate, almost reverent…
ReadPersuasion
Jane Austen
Persuasion is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that begins by sketching the narrow world of Sir Walter…
ReadMrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway is a psychological portrait of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle‑aged,…
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…
Anthem
Ayn Rand
The work is a speculative, psychological narrative that blends science‑fiction ideas with a stark,…
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville
The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century novella that frames itself as a memoir of a modest New York…
The Wind Before the Dawn
Dell H. Munger
The Wind Before the Dawn is a psychological fiction set on the Kansas prairie, focusing on married women,…