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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,354 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,312,152 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,436 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 — 14,987 ratings — published 1961
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,259 ratings — published 1966
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,935 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 318,129 ratings — published 1962
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,024 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 292,277 ratings — published 1993
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,999 ratings — published 1959
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,378 ratings — published 1990
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,650 ratings — published 1960
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 36,928 ratings — published 1964
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 663,737 ratings — published 1996
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 3.65 — 455,331 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,158 ratings — published 2012
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,089,553 ratings — published 1601
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,598 ratings — published 1991
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,185 ratings — published 2007
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,767,149 ratings — published 1977
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.44 — 370,094 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,155,568 ratings — published 1866
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,411,761 ratings — published 1847
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 243,792 ratings — published 1605
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,067 ratings — published 2019
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 977,775 ratings — published 1955
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,184 ratings — published 1605
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,054,667 ratings — published 1623
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,716 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 — 2,706 ratings — published 2002
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,069 ratings — published 1899
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,488 ratings — published 1843
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.86 — 26,792 ratings — published 1887
Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,824 ratings — published 1961
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 584,606 ratings — published 1985
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,604 ratings — published 1994
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,845 ratings — published 2000
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,999,281 ratings — published 1890
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 620,113 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 259,071 ratings — published 1864
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 802 ratings — published 2015
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,999,464 ratings — published 1818
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,330 ratings — published 1984
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,549 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 — 1,842 ratings — published 1961
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,962 ratings — published 2008
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 — 91,413 ratings — published 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,810 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 4.56 — 158 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 574,289 ratings — published 2020
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― The Madman
― The Madman
“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
