Madness


The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Bell Jar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Wide Sargasso Sea
Girl, Interrupted
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Fight Club
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHelping the Retarded to Know God by Hans R. HahnThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneHow to Pick Up Women by Eric WeberHow to Avoid Huge Ships by John W. Trimmer
Do Not Read Book List
331 books — 62 voters
Brain on Fire by Susannah CahalanWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Day the Music Died by Blair Evans
Madness Real and Imagined
65 books — 111 voters

If I Wake by Nikki MoyesDead Serious by Jane Mersky LederThe Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia HandThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCivilianized by Michael  Anthony
Best Books That Deal With Suicide
127 books — 108 voters
An Anonymous Girl by Greer HendricksMy Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dice Man by Luke RhinehartY is for Fidelity by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dumb House by John Burnside
Dark Psychological Fiction
19 books — 11 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonWe Used to Live Here by Marcus KliewerPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
architecture & insanity
5 books — 3 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyNorthern Lights by Philip PullmanThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonWatchmen by Alan Moore
Mad Scientists And Crazy Boffins
31 books — 7 voters

C.G. Jung
Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn ...more
C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

Haruki Murakami
Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one ...more
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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