Favourite novel with psychological themes in it? Why?

My favourite is "The God Boy" by Ian Cross (because I love the narrators' perception of morality and God - how his actions seem 'bad' to the nuns at his school, but he can justify them. I also really love how a seemingly small family problem/disagreement can actually be incredibly destructive and devastating both to the children observing their parents' conflicts, and to the parents. It also shows how a good-ish person can do a terrible thing, and how, even if the child doesn't get 'told' he/she will somehow know something is really really wrong anyway - it is often better just to tell them the truth so they can talk about it)

another favourite is "I am David" because it is very interesting how fear and dehumanisation and trauma and basic survival urges can change a person and their behaviour - so that other people observing that person don't understand, even though it seems natural and normal to the person).

Answer:
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, its a crazy view of Nihilism and multiple personalities. I love it.
The Story of O, by Pauline Reage and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth...twisted!! I love them both!
The silence of the lambs
hannibal lector terrorizes clarice starling
and i find that exciting
coelho - veronika decided to die
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley.

It just has every kind of psychological twist, tells you more about human beings than anyone outside Shakespeare and is written in an avant-garde style where the chronology jumps around, so that you get to understand things suddenly and sometimes backwards.

I don't expect you to see what I mean; you've got to read it.

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