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Recommended psychology books (36)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into psychology here are some psychology books from United States of America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever EN

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The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel--a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father's recent death. Paul sees the wealthy, effortle... continue

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They're Going to Love You : A Novel by Meg Howrey EN

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A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. “They’re Going to Love You is my idea of a perfect book. It is about art, life, death, love, and family and it is beautifully and sharply written. I cried several times while reading it, and was sorry to let it go when I was done. I cannot recommend it enough.” —Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and All This Could Be Yours Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a... continue


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We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club," the story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one--their close family relative was a chimpanzee.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
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THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

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Whistling Vivaldi : How Stereotypes Affect Us And What We Can Do by Claude Steele EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Examines the role of what the author calls identity contingencies in the lives of individuals and in society as a whole, focusing on stereotype threat, arguing that people who believe they may be judged based on a bad stereotype do not perform as well, and showing how to overcome the problem.