Great Reads About Mental Health

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 4.24 avg rating — 1,948,201 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,761 ratings
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Vincent
Vincent 4.79 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why
by: Jay Asher
3.84 avg rating — 1,013,868 ratings
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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her 3.90 avg rating — 8,836 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon 4.23 avg rating — 763,581 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,398 ratings
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story 4.07 avg rating — 260,074 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,783 ratings
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The Silver Linings Playbook
The Silver Linings Playbook 3.98 avg rating — 161,896 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,418 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,617 ratings
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Without MAlice
Without MAlice 4.03 avg rating — 365 ratings
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A Walk Between Raindrops
A Walk Between Raindrops 4.30 avg rating — 73 ratings
15.
Everything Here Is Beautiful
Everything Here Is Beautiful 3.93 avg rating — 19,982 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating — 34,822 ratings
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I Have to Call Someone Mama: A Grandmother's Story of Two Siblings Rescued from Munchausen by Proxy Abuse
I Have to Call Someone Mama: A Grandmother's Story of Two Siblings Rescued from Munchausen by Proxy Abuse 4.21 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl 3.91 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
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Conditions
Conditions 3.70 avg rating — 181 ratings
20.
If I Wake
If I Wake 3.92 avg rating — 747 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,419 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,834 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,793 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
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Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects 4.01 avg rating — 1,179,301 ratings
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More To Life
More To Life 4.53 avg rating — 59 ratings
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His Bright Light: The Story of My Son, Nick Traina
His Bright Light: The Story of My Son, Nick Traina 4.19 avg rating — 7,310 ratings
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 4.23 avg rating — 1,371,087 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings
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Gulabi
Gulabi 3.08 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 9,619 ratings
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I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True 4.21 avg rating — 320,914 ratings
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Turtles All the Way Down
Turtles All the Way Down 3.88 avg rating — 626,558 ratings
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One Carefree Day (Carefree, #1)
One Carefree Day (Carefree, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality 4.03 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain 3.83 avg rating — 41,534 ratings
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness 4.27 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door 3.77 avg rating — 38,196 ratings
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,658 ratings
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Look Me in the Eye
Look Me in the Eye 3.92 avg rating — 69,100 ratings
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Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska 3.96 avg rating — 1,715,997 ratings
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Twenty-Five Silver Rules for Mental Health
Twenty-Five Silver Rules for Mental Health 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery 4.20 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
The Day My Mother Never Came Home 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice 3.74 avg rating — 288,662 ratings
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Broken
Broken 4.02 avg rating — 45,013 ratings
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Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind 4.17 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story 3.71 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,731 ratings
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Madness
Madness 4.25 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Malcolm Is a Little Unwell
Malcolm Is a Little Unwell 4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Fragile Line
Fragile Line 3.68 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out
Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out 3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
When Rabbit Howls 4.05 avg rating — 17,789 ratings
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The Bench
The Bench 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope
Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope 4.46 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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If the Cardinal Flies Home
If the Cardinal Flies Home 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating 4.12 avg rating — 4,781 ratings
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Pretty Girl-13
Pretty Girl-13
by: Liz Coley
4.03 avg rating — 7,989 ratings
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink 3.72 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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The Almost Broken Mind: How to Regain Mind Control Through Mind Management to Get the Mind on Track With Mental Fitness to Stop the Mind Wondering so You Can Mind Your Business
The Almost Broken Mind: How to Regain Mind Control Through Mind Management to Get the Mind on Track With Mental Fitness to Stop the Mind Wondering so You Can Mind Your Business 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Willow
Willow 3.90 avg rating — 32,759 ratings
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Letting Go
Letting Go 4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity 3.88 avg rating — 3,732 ratings
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder 4.02 avg rating — 12,173 ratings
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Wintergirls
Wintergirls 3.96 avg rating — 124,791 ratings
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Kissing Doorknobs
Kissing Doorknobs 3.92 avg rating — 3,401 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood 3.74 avg rating — 20,072 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
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Suicide Notes
Suicide Notes 3.80 avg rating — 53,081 ratings
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Playing the Genetic Lottery
Playing the Genetic Lottery 3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Out of the FOG: Information & Support for those with a Family Member or Loved One who Suffers From a Personality Disorder
Out of the FOG: Information & Support for those with a Family Member or Loved One who Suffers From a Personality Disorder 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Foxavier and Plinka
Foxavier and Plinka 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Your Meaning
Your Meaning 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me
My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me 3.93 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Brain Renovation
Brain Renovation 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Reaching
Reaching 4.52 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness
Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness 4.31 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Boy Who Could See Demons
The Boy Who Could See Demons 3.88 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction... and Twelve Steps for the Rest of Us - A Path to Wholeness, Serenity and Success
Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction... and Twelve Steps for the Rest of Us - A Path to Wholeness, Serenity and Success 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Schizophrenia - Who Cares? A Father's Story
Schizophrenia - Who Cares? A Father's Story 3.71 avg rating — 93 ratings
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No Way Out But Through: One Man's Journey from Mental Illness to Clarity and Strength of Soul
No Way Out But Through: One Man's Journey from Mental Illness to Clarity and Strength of Soul 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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When anorexia came to visit: Families talk about how an eating disorder invaded their lives
When anorexia came to visit: Families talk about how an eating disorder invaded their lives 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope 3.98 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Dream Brother
Dream Brother 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Catching the Thief: A Story, a Search, and Schizophrenia
Catching the Thief: A Story, a Search, and Schizophrenia 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Define "Normal"
Define "Normal" 3.83 avg rating — 8,428 ratings
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Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man
Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Demon
The Demon 3.90 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
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Where Fault Lies: A Survivor's Story of Game, Shame & Blame
Where Fault Lies: A Survivor's Story of Game, Shame & Blame 4.09 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Trigger
Trigger 3.82 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia
Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia 3.82 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Ayahuasca - The Sacred Psychedelic!!
Ayahuasca - The Sacred Psychedelic!! 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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