Asylums Books

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What She Left Behind What She Left Behind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.03 — 69,313 ratings — published 2015
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Blue Asylum Blue Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,966 ratings — published 2012
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Asylum (Asylum, #1) Asylum (Asylum, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,275 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 — 24,239 ratings — published 1887
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The Asylum The Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.39 — 5,182 ratings — published 2013
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Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.94 — 277,574 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 — 2,497 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 — 779,008 ratings — published 1962
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Sanctum (Asylum, #2) Sanctum (Asylum, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,381 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 4.26 — 915 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 — 38,515 ratings — published 2019
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The Silent Patient The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,228,317 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 — 4,026 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 3.58 — 1,144 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 — 516 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 — 907 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 4.15 — 1,595 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 — 1,882 ratings — published 2012
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The Ballroom The Ballroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,039 ratings — published 2016
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Catacomb (Asylum, #3) Catacomb (Asylum, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,396 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 — 611 ratings — published 2014
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Silence for the Dead Silence for the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,867 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 4.25 — 93 ratings — published 2007
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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,215,593 ratings — published 1963
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Alias Grace Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.04 — 156,542 ratings — published 1996
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The Painted Bridge The Painted Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.49 — 2,131 ratings — published 2012
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Shutter Island Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.14 — 224,854 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 4.20 — 7,583 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 — 23,012 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 4.30 — 40,778 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 — 201,497 ratings — published 2021
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The Asylum The Asylum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,615 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 3.94 — 53,609 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 — 10,545 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 — 7,150 ratings — published 2016
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The Devil Aspect The Devil Aspect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,756 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 — 2,263 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 3.82 — 512 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 — 4,488 ratings — published 2014
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Follia Follia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,409 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 — 14,543 ratings — published 1961
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The Blackstone Chronicles The Blackstone Chronicles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as asylums)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,680 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 — 54,394 ratings — published 2022
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Madwoman Madwoman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,139 ratings — published 2022
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The Foundling The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,453 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 — 2,704 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 4.15 — 3,339 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 3.85 — 37,235 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 4.11 — 3,658 ratings — published
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The Lingering The Lingering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as asylums)
avg rating 3.22 — 1,479 ratings — published 2018
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“...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

Stephen Richards
“Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!”
Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life

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