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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
64 books — 110 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
99 books — 105 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
187 books — 92 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanDoctors in Hell by Janet E. MorrisThe Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryA Masque of Infamy by Kelly Dessaint
Literary fiction and mysteries involving mental illness, psychiatrists and mental hospitals
57 books — 70 voters

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHelping the Retarded to Know God by H.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
393 books — 61 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Descent Into Madness Books
91 books — 56 voters

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 — 47 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"Slow Descent into Madness"
63 books — 34 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WGunpowder Soup by Karl WigginsWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins
Weird Titles
174 books — 26 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerSeparate Things by Ashley Marie BerryAnxiety by Danny WinterAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Books About Falling Apart
55 books — 13 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
18 books — 10 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Male Malaise: He's Not Feeling Good At All
44 books — 10 voters

House in the Tall Grass by January JosephineStinkpot by January JosephineThe Torture Garden by Octave MirbeauLes Onze Mille Verges; or, The Amorous Adventures of Prince M... by Guillaume ApollinaireSchwester Monika (Sammlung Zenodot rotische Bibliothek) by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Erotica Obscura
16 books — 7 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

The Schreber Case by Sigmund FreudMadness and Modernism by Louis A. SassThe Paradoxes of Delusion by Louis A. SassAnti-Oedipus by Gilles DeleuzeThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques Lacan
The Psychotic Dr. Schreber
29 books — 6 voters
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...All the Weight of Our Dreams by Lydia X.Z. BrownHow to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by LaMarr Jurelle BruceBorderlands / La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaZami by Audre Lorde
Critical Mad Studies and Mad/Crip of Colour Critique
26 books — 6 voters

Anxiety by Danny WinterThirteen Years a Lunatic by Asa B. WilsonMental Illnesses in Symbolism by Rosina NeginskyRhymes of a Raver- Tribute to a Castle of Salvaged Souls by Richard David ComstockThe Neighborhood Vigilante Redemption Committee by C.R. Baker
Inverted Lungs d'Appled With Fluttering Tongues
100 books — 5 voters
Separate Things by Ashley Marie BerryMad in America by Robert WhitakerSad, Mad and Bad by Lisa AppignanesiPsychosis, Dissociation and Trauma by Martin J. DorahyCommitted to the Sane Asylum by Susan Schellenberg
Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry, critical psychiatry, and mental health in general
72 books — 5 voters

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul SchreberCrook Frightfulness by A VictimBehind the Door of Delusion by Marle WoodsonProper People by David ScrimgeourThe Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslav Nijinsky
Annoying Responses to Counterfeit Realities
106 books — 4 voters
Cognitive Confusions by Ita MacCarthySynthetic Mania by H.G. WoodleyLife Writing and Schizophrenia by Mary Elene WoodFrom Under the Cloud; or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity by Anna AgnewThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Crazy Tan
107 books — 4 voters

Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl WigginsSynthetic Mania by H.G. Woodley666 and His Project 666 by Miguel Angel Sosa VasquezAdolf Wölfli by Manuel AnceauTRANCE-formation of America by Cathy O'Brien
Trade Your Dimes For Nickels & Call Watermelons Pickles
100 books — 3 voters
Operation Mind Control by Walter H. BowartTRANCE-formation of America by Cathy O'BrienAcid Dreams by Martin A. LeeThe Air Loom Gang by Mike JayThe Terror That Comes in the Night by David J. Hufford
Confusion Is Nothing New
121 books — 3 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
American Elves by John E. RothThe Divining Rod by William Fletcher BarrettThe Hallucinogenic Effects of Breathing by Joanna BoulterBird Divination among the Tibetans by Bernhard LauferMusical Punstruments by Zach M. Arnold
Enchanted Nonfiction
100 books — 2 voters

A Cry from the Heart by William SearsHoly Horrors by James A. HaughtSix Years with God by Jeannie MillsThe Cross and the Crescent by Malcolm BillingsThe Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford
Holy Horrors Bibliography
62 books — 2 voters
Nightbitch by Rachel YoderShe's a Lamb! by Meredith HambrockMotherthing by Ainslie HogarthA Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. SummersThe Power by Naomi Alderman
Female Rage Horror
42 books — 2 voters

Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinEverything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van BooyA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaJazz by Toni MorrisonNightwood by Djuna Barnes
Mad, Wild, Crazy Love Love Love
12 books — 1 voter
Issues With Authority by Nadia BulkinThe King in Yellow by I.N.J. CulbardThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesCell by Stephen KingBird Box by Josh Malerman
Paracontagions, BLITs, Brown Notes and Thought Viruses in Fiction
33 books — 1 voter

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