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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.
ReadDie Verwandlung
Franz Kafka
Die Erzählung ist ein psychologisches Werk, das unmittelbar mit einer außergewöhnlichen Verwandlung einsetzt:…
ReadDer Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Der Roman ist ein psychologisches Porträt, das aus den Aufzeichnungen eines namenlosen Erzählers entsteht,…
ReadThe Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
H. G. Wells
The opening places the reader in a wintry English village where a mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives at…
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Moby‑Dick is a sprawling work of whaling fiction that begins with the iconic line “Call me Ishmael.” The…
ReadThe House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth is a social and psychological novel set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where the…
ReadThe tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji is a psychological romance set in the aristocratic world of Heian‑period Japan, where…
ReadMoby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville
The work is a sprawling, encyclopedic meditation on the whale, presented as a patchwork of lexicons,…
Daisy Miller: A Study
Henry James
The work is a psychological study set amid the genteel tourist world of Vevey, Switzerland, where a bustling…
ReadThe Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is a domestic tale set in rural England, foregrounded by a vivid description of the…
ReadThe Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The novel opens in 1913 with the introspective young heir Anthony Patch, a twenty‑five‑year‑old who balances…
ReadThe sound and the fury
William Faulkner
The novel is a work of psychological and domestic fiction set in Mississippi, focusing on a family’s tangled…
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim is a work of psychological fiction that probes the inner workings of honor, cowardice and…
The nigger of the "Narcissus": A tale of the forecastle
Joseph Conrad
The work is a psychological sea story that places a Black seaman, James Wait, at the heart of a ship’s…
ReadBabbitt
Sinclair Lewis
The novel opens with a sweeping portrait of a bustling, modern city, its neon‑lit railways, towering…
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris
The novel opens on a languid Sunday in San Francisco, introducing the hulking, pipe‑smoking dentist McTeague…
ReadThe Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
The novel opens with a painstakingly detailed portrait of a rural couple and their infant daughter as they…
ReadThe Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
The novel is a psychological portrait set in England and the exotic islands of Tahiti, tracing the life of…
The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad
The opening places the reader aboard a newly‑appointed captain’s ship, anchored in the Gulf of Siam at…
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The novel opens with a narrator returning from a two‑week leave to find the General’s household already…
ReadThe Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter presents itself as a richly layered work that weaves together themes of adultery, revenge,…
The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel is an autobiographical‑tinged psychological narrative that opens with a rambling, almost theatrical…
The Financier: A Novel
Theodore Dreiser
The novel is a work of psychological fiction that follows the early life of Frank Algernon Cowperwood, a boy…
ReadMaggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
The novel is a gritty, street‑level portrait of New York’s poorest neighborhoods, presented as psychological…
Charlotte Temple
Mrs. Rowson
The work presents itself as a moral tale aimed at young women, explicitly framed as a “Tale of Truth” meant…