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Mental Illness Books
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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 980 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,138 ratings — published 1963
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 668 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.11 — 621,908 ratings — published 2015
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 273,717 ratings — published 1993
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 571 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.87 — 634,626 ratings — published 2017
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 552 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,488 ratings — published 1999
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 510 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.07 — 261,205 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,019,473 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,072 ratings — published 1962
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 375 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,382 ratings — published 2009
Challenger Deep (ebook)
by (shelved 348 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 33,856 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,399,244 ratings — published 2017
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.07 — 348,034 ratings — published 1892
Made You Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,339 ratings — published 2015
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 173,287 ratings — published 2015
Every Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.21 — 124,948 ratings — published 2015
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,028 ratings — published 1995
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 281 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 259,838 ratings — published 2016
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,201,527 ratings — published 2006
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 240 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,558 ratings — published 2015
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,404,786 ratings — published 2022
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,122,971 ratings — published 2019
The Silver Linings Playbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 162,395 ratings — published 2008
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,370,281 ratings — published 2020
Finding Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.75 — 84,368 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.15 — 142,679 ratings — published 2020
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.64 — 63,691 ratings — published 1994
Fangirl (ebook)
by (shelved 201 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.94 — 776,488 ratings — published 2013
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.05 — 627,009 ratings — published 1999
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.28 — 895,291 ratings — published 2015
Eliza and Her Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.14 — 65,155 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,554 ratings — published 2018
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,361,151 ratings — published 2014
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.60 — 545,478 ratings — published 2018
Cut (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.76 — 60,041 ratings — published 2000
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 175 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.09 — 235,533 ratings — published 2012
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.65 — 354,078 ratings — published 2007
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,263 ratings — published 1964
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.78 — 404,910 ratings — published 1993
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.17 — 215,023 ratings — published 2013
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.32 — 22,667 ratings — published 2007
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.25 — 82,201 ratings — published 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,582,291 ratings — published 2003
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,643 ratings — published 1973
Paperweight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,563 ratings — published 2015
Reasons to Stay Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.06 — 110,638 ratings — published 2015
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,073 ratings — published 2019
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,743 ratings — published 2008
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 4.23 — 36,649 ratings — published 2018
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,731,557 ratings — published 2005
Highly Illogical Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as mental-illness)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,351 ratings — published 2016
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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