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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 392,786 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,332,622 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,757 ratings — published 1962
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as madness)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,066 ratings — published 1961
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,509 ratings — published 1966
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,758 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 329,738 ratings — published 1962
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,753 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 294,700 ratings — published 1993
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 440,911 ratings — published 1959
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,613 ratings — published 1990
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,706 ratings — published 1960
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,217 ratings — published 1964
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,385 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,349 ratings — published 1996
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 3.65 — 471,689 ratings — published 2007
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,022 ratings — published 1601
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,739 ratings — published 1991
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,426 ratings — published 2007
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 245,134 ratings — published 1605
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,784,856 ratings — published 1977
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,431,444 ratings — published 1847
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.44 — 379,358 ratings — published 2019
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,209 ratings — published 2019
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,419 ratings — published 1955
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,173,277 ratings — published 1866
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,112 ratings — published 1605
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,061,781 ratings — published 1623
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.38 — 191,010 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 — 2,722 ratings — published 2002
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,972 ratings — published 1899
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.23 — 133,655 ratings — published 1843
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,307 ratings — published 1887
Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,852 ratings — published 1961
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 592,189 ratings — published 1985
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,735 ratings — published 1994
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,401 ratings — published 2000
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.58 — 631,998 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 266,108 ratings — published 1864
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 814 ratings — published 2015
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,032,100 ratings — published 1818
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 116,311 ratings — published 1984
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,047 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 — 1,855 ratings — published 1961
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,006 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 — 91,573 ratings — published 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.83 — 708,228 ratings — published 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,028,683 ratings — published 1890
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 4.57 — 165 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.19 — 603,326 ratings — published 2020
“First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.
Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”
― The Humans
Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”
― The Humans
