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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as madness)
avg rating 4.07 — 365,567 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as madness)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,242,833 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,852 ratings — published 1962
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as madness)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,662 ratings — published 1961
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 108,104 ratings — published 1966
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 281,826 ratings — published 1993
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 158,090 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,787 ratings — published 1962
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,370 ratings — published 1995
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 31,756 ratings — published 1990
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as madness)
avg rating 3.81 — 400,862 ratings — published 1959
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,929 ratings — published 1964
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,510 ratings — published 1960
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 647,857 ratings — published 1996
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,057 ratings — published 2012
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,722,534 ratings — published 1977
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 3.65 — 398,721 ratings — published 2007
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 366,715 ratings — published 1991
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,326 ratings — published 2007
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,684 ratings — published 1955
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,344,594 ratings — published 1847
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 238,967 ratings — published 1605
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,061,420 ratings — published 1601
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.45 — 338,808 ratings — published 2019
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.43 — 562,469 ratings — published 1899
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,694 ratings — published 1615
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,029,233 ratings — published 1623
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.38 — 182,012 ratings — published 1898
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,465 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,098,203 ratings — published 1866
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,655 ratings — published 2002
Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,736 ratings — published 1961
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,079 ratings — published 1994
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.17 — 236,106 ratings — published 1864
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,920,797 ratings — published 1818
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.24 — 126,201 ratings — published 1843
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,778 ratings — published 1887
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.75 — 110,730 ratings — published 1984
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,086 ratings — published 1969
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,820 ratings — published 2008
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,296 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 — 90,997 ratings — published 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.83 — 672,452 ratings — published 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,907,681 ratings — published 1890
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.21 — 493,864 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 3.60 — 576,087 ratings — published 2018
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 3.96 — 768 ratings — published 2015
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,428,399 ratings — published 1942
Down Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,492 ratings — published 1945
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.17 — 966 ratings — published 1985
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“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“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
