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
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Girl, Interrupted
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
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Fight Club
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftMad Love by Lynessa LayneThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
You Must Be 'Mad'
669 books — 48 voters

House in the Tall Grass by January JosephineStinkpot by January JosephineThe Torture Garden by Octave MirbeauStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleLes Onze Mille Verges; or, The Amorous Adventures of Prince M... by Guillaume Apollinaire
Erotica Obscura
17 books — 7 voters
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
189 books — 95 voters

Dale Wasserman
“ Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! ”
― Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha: A Musical Play

Roman Payne
“ All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. ”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

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