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Madness Books
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 381,291 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,291,962 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,487 ratings — published 1962
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as madness)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,904 ratings — published 1961
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,204 ratings — published 1966
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,421 ratings — published 2011
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,623 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 289,832 ratings — published 1993
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 313,304 ratings — published 1962
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.81 — 416,625 ratings — published 1959
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,239 ratings — published 1990
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,611 ratings — published 1960
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 36,594 ratings — published 1964
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 659,722 ratings — published 1996
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,086 ratings — published 2012
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 3.65 — 439,159 ratings — published 2007
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,082,345 ratings — published 1601
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 377,566 ratings — published 1991
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,754,680 ratings — published 1977
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,974 ratings — published 2007
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 971,308 ratings — published 1955
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,138,428 ratings — published 1866
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,393,793 ratings — published 1847
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,419 ratings — published 1605
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.44 — 362,165 ratings — published 2019
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,948 ratings — published 2019
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.43 — 571,695 ratings — published 1899
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 312,729 ratings — published 1605
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,048,277 ratings — published 1623
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.38 — 186,203 ratings — published 1898
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,698 ratings — published 2002
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.24 — 130,099 ratings — published 1843
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.86 — 26,235 ratings — published 1887
Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,799 ratings — published 1961
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 578,161 ratings — published 1985
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,480 ratings — published 1994
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,972,852 ratings — published 1890
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 607,035 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 252,180 ratings — published 1864
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 794 ratings — published 2015
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,979,381 ratings — published 1818
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 114,442 ratings — published 1984
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,517,405 ratings — published 1969
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,838 ratings — published 1961
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,933 ratings — published 2008
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,347 ratings — published 2000
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 91,336 ratings — published 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.83 — 689,800 ratings — published 1886
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.58 — 157 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 548,488 ratings — published 2020
“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.
Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day
I would be grounded, rooted.
Said my head would not keep flying away
to where the darkness lives.
The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight.
Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do.
I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling.
You will find a good man soon.”
The first psycho therapist told me to spend
three hours each day sitting in a dark closet
with my eyes closed and ears plugged.
I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking
about how gay it was to be sitting in the closet.
The yogi told me to stretch everything but the truth.
Said to focus on the out breath. Said everyone finds happiness
when they care more about what they give
than what they get.
The pharmacist said, “Lexapro, Lamicatl, Lithium, Xanax.”
The doctor said an anti-psychotic might help me
forget what the trauma said.
The trauma said, “Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry
about the grief inside your bones.”
But my bones said, “Tyler Clementi jumped
from the George Washington Bridge
into the Hudson River convinced
he was entirely alone.”
My bones said, “Write the poems.”
― The Madness Vase
Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day
I would be grounded, rooted.
Said my head would not keep flying away
to where the darkness lives.
The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight.
Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do.
I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling.
You will find a good man soon.”
The first psycho therapist told me to spend
three hours each day sitting in a dark closet
with my eyes closed and ears plugged.
I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking
about how gay it was to be sitting in the closet.
The yogi told me to stretch everything but the truth.
Said to focus on the out breath. Said everyone finds happiness
when they care more about what they give
than what they get.
The pharmacist said, “Lexapro, Lamicatl, Lithium, Xanax.”
The doctor said an anti-psychotic might help me
forget what the trauma said.
The trauma said, “Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry
about the grief inside your bones.”
But my bones said, “Tyler Clementi jumped
from the George Washington Bridge
into the Hudson River convinced
he was entirely alone.”
My bones said, “Write the poems.”
― The Madness Vase
“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
