Classic Psychological Fiction
Raskolnikov pacing his garret with an axe under his coat, Clarissa Dalloway threading a single day through London, the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper watching the pattern breathe. The novels that turned inward and never came back — click-to-explain unpacks the long Jamesian sentences, avatars anchor every shifting interior to a face, and chapter music follows the slow tightening screw of the narrator's mind.
244 books
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Giant’s Bread by Agatha Christie
Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Middlemarch by George Eliot
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dubliners by James Joyce
Miss Mole by E. H. Young
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
King Lear by William Shakespeare
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Martin Eden by Jack London
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Antigone by Sophocles
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Ajax by Sophocles
Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Sorrows of Young Werther by J. W. von Goethe
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
The Man Within by Graham Greene
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Philoctetes by Sophocles
Electra by Sophocles
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev
The Trachiniae by Sophocles
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Soldiers’ Pay by William Faulkner
The Duel by Anton Chekhov
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Pointed Roofs by Dorothy M. Richardson
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
So Big by Edna Ferber
Veiled Women by Marmaduke Pickthall
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
Exiles by James Joyce
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad
Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay
Satan’s Diary by Leonid Andreyev
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
The Mother by Pearl S. Buck
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
A Man Could Stand Up— by Ford Madox Ford
Some Do Not … by Ford Madox Ford
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford
Trilby by George du Maurier
The Rector and The Doctor’s Family by Margaret Oliphant
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Against the Grain by J.-K. Huysmans
The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
His Family by Ernest Poole
Summer by Edith Wharton
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
Women by Zofia Nałkowska
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
New Grub Street by George Gissing
No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
His Masterpiece by Émile Zola
The House by the River by A. P. Herbert
The Tour by Louis Couperus
A Country Gentleman and His Family by Margaret Oliphant
The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
The Little Demon by Fyodor Sologub
The Inferno by August Strindberg
Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson
The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
Cane by Jean Toomer
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant
Mary, Mary by James Stephens
The Dewy Morn by Richard Jefferies
Sanine by Mikhail Artsybashev
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
The Tunnel by Dorothy M. Richardson
Diverging Roads by Rose Wilder Lane
Phoebe, Junior by Margaret Oliphant
The Perpetual Curate by Margaret Oliphant
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
Niels Lyhne by J. P. Jacobsen
McTeague by Frank Norris
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
Bertram Cope’s Year by Henry Blake Fuller
World’s End by Richard Jefferies
The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
The Uncalled by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
Adam’s Breed by Radclyffe Hall
Pastors and Masters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon
The Splendid Fairing by Constance Holme
Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt
Downstream by Sigfrid Siwertz
National Avenue by Booth Tarkington
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur W. Pinero
The Monster by Edgar Saltus
The Vortex by Noël Coward
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
Backwater by Dorothy M. Richardson
Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson
Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure by Edgar Saltus
The Truth About Tristrem Varick by Edgar Saltus
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
The Red Room by August Strindberg
The Cords of Vanity by James Branch Cabell
The Duel by Aleksandr Kuprin
Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie
After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda
The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
