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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
YA involving mental health issues (2000-present)
491 books — 1,041 voters
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyCut by Patricia McCormickVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
259 books — 771 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Borderline Personality Disorder, Insanity, and related issues
537 books — 734 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathVincent by Joseph FasanoThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherJanuary First by Michael Schofield
Great Reads About Mental Health
364 books — 410 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanDarkness Visible by William Styron
Memoirs of Madness
294 books — 375 voters
5 Days FREE of Depression Anxiety and Panic Attacks by Rhonda PattonDetour from Normal by Ken DicksonEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeNowhere Near Normal by Traci FoustWithout MAlice by Amesbury Clarke
Mental Health and Family
269 books — 316 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Mentally Ill Characters
268 books — 264 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyI Have to Call Someone Mama by Tammy Eady WalkerEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeMore To Life by Jacob Lasher
Best Books On Mental Health
263 books — 215 voters

ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't by Jenni Kleinman BerebitskyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEl Deafo by Cece Bell
Books Written by Disabled Authors
408 books — 168 voters
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie AutumnGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonA Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Best bipolar/schizophrenia books
131 books — 155 voters

The Bad Guy by Celia AaronBlack Lies by Alessandra TorreMy Torin by K. WebsterEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanGrayson by Lisa Eugene
Heroes with mental illness
274 books — 154 voters
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenMade You Up by Francesca ZappiaThe Girl in the Maze by R.K. JacksonDazzled by Darkness by Erica Miles
Schizophrenic Characters
96 books — 119 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
The Bad Guy by Celia AaronBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireReal by Katy EvansEmpathy by Ker DukeyFear Me by B.B. Reid
Male Leads With Mental Illness
188 books — 82 voters

The Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangThe Bride Test by Helen HoangThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Task 13 #ReadHarder 2019
235 books — 64 voters
The End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanAnxiety by Danny WinterLifeLines by Melissa BernsteinGirl in Pieces by Kathleen GlasgowMoving the Chains by Em Lyons Bouch
May: Mental Health Awareness Month
67 books — 44 voters

A List of Cages by Robin RoeIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenWe Were Liars by E. LockhartWintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
YA Mental Illness/Health Novels
126 books — 40 voters
Once Stolen by D.N. BrynAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonSprinkled in the Stars by Violet MorleyQueens of Geek by Jen WildeLakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
Queer Books With Neurodivergent Characters
74 books — 37 voters

Separate Things by Ashley Marie BerryMade You Up by Francesca ZappiaUprooted by Peter J. BoniAnxiety by Danny WinterCabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl Wiggins
Books That Stigmatize Mental Illness
29 books — 25 voters
NeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanIn a Different Key by John DonvanMismatch by Kat HolmesNeuroDiversity by Judy SingerMoojag and the Lost Memories by N.E. McMorran
Neurodiversity and Disability in Society - 50 Introductory Books
61 books — 19 voters

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey EddingsKey Lime Sky by Al HessGet a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia HibbertSensory by Bex OllertonThe Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
Neurodivergent Lit
63 books — 13 voters
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver SacksThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettOur Time To Dance, A Mother's Journey To Joy by Eva Doherty GremmertBecoming Human by Jean VanierA Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Ability and Disability Introduction - Monthly List #1
27 books — 11 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
If the Cardinal Flies Home by Corrine DaltonEvery Last Word by Tamara Ireland StoneIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniGirl in Pieces by Kathleen GlasgowThis Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
Amazing fictional YA books on depression, self harm, and mental illnesses
17 books — 5 voters

Barry Humphries Book of Innocent Austral Verse by Barry HumphriesThe Mystic Mantle; or, the demon spider and the angel fly by James Harry BunnWar Crimes by Peter CareyTechnicians of the Sacred by Jerome RothenbergSmorgasbord and God by Swithin
Upside-Double-Under-Southern-Crosstralia
132 books — 4 voters
Brain Energy by Christopher M. PalmerCeliac Disease by Jaqui KarrCeliac Disease by Peter H.R. Green
Carbs cause mental illness!
3 books — 3 voters

Appetites by Caroline KnappThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangDrinking by Caroline KnappWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleMarbles by Ellen Forney
Task 2 #ReadingWomen 2019
25 books — 2 voters
Cutting My Own Thyroid Out A Schizophrenia Hallucination by Travis E. Breeding'Puss' in 'Pye' Corner by Exact ThinkerViolations of the Child Marilyn Monroe by Her Psychiatrist FriendMasters of Stupidity by Maxwell LandonThe New York Times and the Supreme Court are murdering mankin... by David Andrew Christenson
•Paranoid Tracts
108 books — 2 voters

Cutting My Own Thyroid Out A Schizophrenia Hallucination by Travis E. BreedingSchizophrenics Dream in Colour by Ed BoaitSchizophrenia 1677 by Ida MacalpineSchizoid by Johan FundinWhen the Music's Over by Ross David Burke
"Schizo"
74 books — 2 voters
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham by H.G. WellsThe World She Wanted by Philip K. DickMartian Time-Slip by Philip K. DickA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Doctor Juniper's top Paranoia Fiction
8 books — 1 voter

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