Asylums Books

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What She Left Behind What She Left Behind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.04 — 72,417 ratings — published 2015
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Blue Asylum Blue Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,997 ratings — published 2012
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Asylum (Asylum, #1) Asylum (Asylum, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,983 ratings — published 2013
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Ten Days in a Mad-House Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.86 — 25,473 ratings — published 1887
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The Asylum The Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.39 — 5,237 ratings — published 2013
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Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.95 — 285,428 ratings — published 1993
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,507 ratings — published 2001
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,384 ratings — published 1962
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Sanctum (Asylum, #2) Sanctum (Asylum, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,681 ratings — published 2014
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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.25 — 914 ratings — published 2009
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The Mad Women's Ball The Mad Women's Ball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.79 — 39,947 ratings — published 2019
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The Silent Patient The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,419,293 ratings — published 2019
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,057 ratings — published 2008
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Bedlam: London and Its Mad Bedlam: London and Its Mad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,155 ratings — published 2008
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Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.84 — 518 ratings — published 1994
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The Darlings of the Asylum The Darlings of the Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.41 — 950 ratings — published 2022
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,623 ratings — published 1961
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The Girl Who Couldn't Read The Girl Who Couldn't Read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,901 ratings — published 2012
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The Ballroom The Ballroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,125 ratings — published 2016
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Catacomb (Asylum, #3) Catacomb (Asylum, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,612 ratings — published 2015
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The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.57 — 617 ratings — published 2014
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Silence for the Dead Silence for the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,395 ratings — published 2014
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The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture) The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.26 — 94 ratings — published 2007
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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,262,351 ratings — published 1963
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Alias Grace Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.04 — 159,146 ratings — published 1996
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The Painted Bridge The Painted Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.49 — 2,150 ratings — published 2012
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Shutter Island Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.14 — 232,605 ratings — published 2003
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,811 ratings — published 2024
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The Secret Scripture (McNulty Family) The Secret Scripture (McNulty Family)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,269 ratings — published 2008
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.29 — 43,211 ratings — published 2021
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The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1) The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.36 — 205,960 ratings — published 2021
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The Asylum The Asylum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,707 ratings — published 2021
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.95 — 56,777 ratings — published 2006
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A Madness So Discreet A Madness So Discreet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,620 ratings — published 2015
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Escape from Asylum (Asylum, #0) Escape from Asylum (Asylum, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,284 ratings — published 2016
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The Devil Aspect The Devil Aspect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,017 ratings — published 2019
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The Asylum Novellas (Asylum, #1.5, 2.5, 3.5) The Asylum Novellas (Asylum, #1.5, 2.5, 3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,294 ratings — published 2016
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.83 — 517 ratings — published 2012
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The Scarlets (Asylum #1.5) The Scarlets (Asylum #1.5)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,560 ratings — published 2014
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Follia Follia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,466 ratings — published 1996
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,753 ratings — published 1961
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The Blackstone Chronicles The Blackstone Chronicles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,718 ratings — published 1997
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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook The Lost Girls of Willowbrook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,502 ratings — published 2022
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As Bright as Heaven As Bright as Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,364 ratings — published 2018
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Madwoman Madwoman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,183 ratings — published 2022
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The Foundling The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,813 ratings — published 2022
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Faces in the Water Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,760 ratings — published 1961
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The Asylum Confessions: Cults (The Asylum Confession Files, #4) The Asylum Confessions: Cults (The Asylum Confession Files, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,634 ratings — published
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The Children on the Hill The Children on the Hill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,657 ratings — published 2022
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The Asylum Confessions: Till Death Do Us Part (The Asylum Confession Files, #3) The Asylum Confessions: Till Death Do Us Part (The Asylum Confession Files, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,930 ratings — published
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Hanif Kureishi
“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”
Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“...These mothers had made the dangerous journey to America with their children because they knew that the danger of staying in their home country was even worse. They have the legal right to seek asylum, but when they arrive, we call them criminals. We treat them like criminals. That is not the sign of a civil society, nor is it a sign of compassion.”
Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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