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Books like Lady Audley's secret

Loved Lady Audley's secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · Psychology

    How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.

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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl · 1946 · Psychology

    A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.

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    The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk · 2014 · Psychology

    How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.

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    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 · Psychology

    The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.

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    Poor Miss Finch

    Wilkie Collins · 1872 · Psychology

    You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since.

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    The American

    Henry James · 1877 · Psychology

    A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.

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    Trois contes

    Gustave Flaubert · 1877 · Psychology

    .I Pendant un demi-siecle, les bourgeoises de Pont-l'Eveque envierent a Madame Aubain sa servante Felicite. Pour cent francs par an, elle faisait la cuisine et le menage, cousait, lavait, repassait, s

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    The Bostonians

    Henry James · 1885 · Psychology

    First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires. It begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, in search of a career. The book turns on the relationship betwee

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    Psychopathia sexualis

    Richard von Krafft-Ebing · 1886 · Psychology

    Deviant sex behavior with special emphasis on the medico/legal aspects. A study for physicians and lawyers. 16th and 17th completely revised edition.

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    The master of Ballantrae

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1888 · Psychology

    The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart.

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