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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 199,425 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
by
Susanna Kaysen
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 68,541 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 34,709 ratings
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Prozac Nation
by
Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 26,511 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by
Kay Redfield Jamison
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19,344 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 88,205 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
by
Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 38,807 ratings
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White Oleander
by
Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author)
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 134,915 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by
Joanne Greenberg
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 13,748 ratings
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Musical Chairs
by
Jen Knox (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 214 ratings
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| 11 |
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She's Come Undone
by
Wally Lamb
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 154,624 ratings
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 647,907 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
by
Virginia Woolf
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 74,296 ratings
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Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 248,341 ratings
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My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me
by
Amanda Green (Goodreads Author)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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STRANGE LOVE: How Pro Wrestling Taught Me to Relax and Love My Mom
by
Ben Peller (Goodreads Author)
4.65 of 5 stars 4.65 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Swimming Upstream
by
Ruth Mancini (Goodreads Author)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Hours
by
Michael Cunningham
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 62,811 ratings
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Cut
by
Patricia McCormick
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 22,839 ratings
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Looking for Alaska
by
John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 149,770 ratings
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| 21 |
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
by
Marya Hornbacher
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 4,501 ratings
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Hamlet
by
William Shakespeare
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 275,536 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
by
Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 103,793 ratings
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Speak
by
Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 148,710 ratings
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by
Stieg Larsson
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 781,656 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by
Marya Hornbacher
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,784 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by
Elyn R. Saks
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
by
Henry James
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 27,347 ratings
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Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
by
Christine Dzidrums
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Still Alice
by
Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 74,905 ratings
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The Woman in White
by
Wilkie Collins
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 45,241 ratings
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Running with Scissors
by
Augusten Burroughs
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 172,595 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by
Sylvia Plath
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 6,640 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by
Shirley Jackson
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 12,433 ratings
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| 35 |
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Wintergirls
by
Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 36,337 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
by
Shirley Jackson
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 22,368 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
by
Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 59,005 ratings
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Woman on the Edge of Time
by
Marge Piercy
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
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Surfacing
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 9,592 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
by
Tennessee Williams
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 46,240 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by
Jean Rhys
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 21,030 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by
Tennessee Williams
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 97,533 ratings
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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
by
Emilie Autumn
4.65 of 5 stars 4.65 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by
Jay Asher (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 145,062 ratings
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Lisa, Bright and Dark
by
John Neufeld
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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Willow
by
Julia Hoban
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 14,050 ratings
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Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
by
Rachel Reiland
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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| 48 |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 50,596 ratings
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| 49 |
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Save Me The Waltz
by
Zelda Fitzgerald
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Lucky
by
Alice Sebold
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 49,237 ratings
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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
by
Sabrina Chapadjiev (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Manic: A Memoir
by
Terri Cheney
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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The Kingdom of Childhood
by
Rebecca Coleman (Goodreads Author)
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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The Best Little Girl in the World
by
Steven Levenkron
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
by
Jennifer Traig
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 2,509 ratings
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| 56 |
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The Gargoyle
by
Andrew Davidson (Goodreads Author)
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 22,056 ratings
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| 57 |
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
by
Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Awakening
by
Kate Chopin
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 69,208 ratings
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Les Pensees Dangereuses
by
Sharon E. Cathcart (Goodreads Author)
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
by
Lauren Slater
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 814 ratings
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And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
by
Deborah Spungen
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
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Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
by
Patty Duke
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
by
Norah Vincent
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
by
Frances Farmer
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress
by
Daphne Scholinski
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by
Ken Kesey
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 245,638 ratings
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by
Maggie O'Farrell
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 10,086 ratings
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The Edible Woman
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
by
Carrie Fisher
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 10,421 ratings
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by
Lori Schiller
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
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Faces in the Water
by
Janet Frame
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
by
Julie Gregory
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,728 ratings
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Identical
by
Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 22,620 ratings
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Pros of Prozac: A Faith-based Memoir of Overcoming the Stigma
by
Beca Mark (Goodreads Author)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Finding Alice
by
Melody Carlson
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 932 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
by
Truddi Chase
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 7,695 ratings
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The Glass Castle
by
Jeannette Walls
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 306,159 ratings
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Hurry Down Sunshine
by
Michael Greenberg
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
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An Angel At My Table
by
Janet Frame
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Loony-Bin Trip
by
Kate Millett
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
by
Nellie Bly
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 727 ratings
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980
by
Elaine Showalter
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Prince of Tides
by
Pat Conroy
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 79,115 ratings
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The Wayward Gifted - Broken Point
by
Donna K. Childree (Goodreads Author)
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness
by
Natalie Jeanne Champagne (Goodreads Author)
4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
by
Kiera Van Gelder
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
by
Janice Galloway
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
by
Richard Baer
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
by
Annie G. Rogers
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Erie County
by
Kristine J. Montanez
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
by
Brooke Shields
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
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Scars
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Cheryl Rainfield (Goodreads Author)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 3,413 ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
by
Sandra M. Gilbert
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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Medea
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Euripides
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 21,082 ratings
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Good Morning, Midnight
by
Jean Rhys
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 14,438 ratings
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Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Skin Game
by
Caroline Kettlewell
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
by
Tom Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings
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