Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion
2016 Read Harder Challenge
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Task 24: Read a Book with a Main Character Who Has a Mental Illness
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Books mentioned in this topic
If I Wake (other topics)Thirteen Reasons Why (other topics)
The Corrections (other topics)
Mrs. Dalloway (other topics)
Finding Audrey (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Virginia Woolf (other topics)Sophie Kinsella (other topics)
Jenny Lawson (other topics)
Sylvia Plath (other topics)
Hope Jahren (other topics)
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I think If I Wake counts - the summary indicates that the character is having suicidal thoughts. Even if it's magical realism, it seems to be a metaphor for mental illness and what it feels like.
I wanted to double-dip for biography and mental illness and use Nixonland. Ha ha - kidding (mostly).