Psychological fiction books

The Princess of Cleves

Madame de La Fayette

The Princess of Cleves is a historical‑psychological romance set amid the glittering courts of 16th‑century…

The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

Jack London

The work is a sprawling psychological confession that blends the narrator’s present incarceration with a…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a comic, self‑reflective travel narrative…

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope

The novel opens with a brisk sketch of Louis Trevelyan, a handsome, well‑connected twenty‑four‑year‑old who,…

Der Tod in Venedig

Thomas Mann

Der Roman ist ein psychologisches Parabelstück, das im schillernden Venedig des frühen 20.

Piper in the Woods

Philip K. Dick

The story opens as a routine military inquiry turns surreal on a newly‑established asteroid outpost.

The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel opens in a marble‑filled saloon of Rome’s Capitol, where four travelers, three artists and a young…

Romola

George Eliot

George Eliot’s Romola opens with a sweeping meditation on continuity and change, anchoring the novel in 1492…

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The opening of Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram‑Haugh situates itself firmly in the Gothic tradition,…

An Outcast of the Islands

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad’s second novel, “An Outcast of the Islands,” unfolds as a psychological study of a European…

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic

The novel is a work of psychological fiction that places its protagonist, the young Methodist minister Theron…

A Mortal Antipathy

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “A Mortal Antipathy” is a psychological tale that delves into the lingering effects…

The Odd Women

George Gissing

George Gissing’s The Odd Women opens in a domestic setting that immediately frames the novel as a study of…

The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie

The Man of Feeling is a work of psychological and gothic fiction that foregrounds the inner lives of its…

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons is a psychological study of inheritance and family dynamics set in a Midwestern…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

The work is a nineteenth‑century Scottish psychological novel that frames its story as a “private memoir” of…

East Lynne

Mrs. Henry Wood

The novel unfolds as a richly layered domestic drama set in England, with a touch of French intrigue, and it…

The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

W. E. B. Du Bois

The novel unfolds as a psychological fable that intertwines the inner turmoil of a lonely boy with the vivid,…

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a sprawling social portrait of 19th‑century England, set in the fictional county of Barsetshire,…

Diana of the Crossways — Complete

George Meredith

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

The Titan

Theodore Dreiser

The sacred tree: Being the second part of 'The tale of Genji'

Murasaki Shikibu

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad