Memoirs of Madness

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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,789 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,401 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,152 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper 4.07 avg rating — 338,239 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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Surviving the Fourth Cycle
Surviving the Fourth Cycle 3.64 avg rating — 988 ratings
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Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation 3.64 avg rating — 63,385 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,429 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,262 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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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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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 4.19 avg rating — 15,442 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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Detour from Normal
Detour from Normal 3.77 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home
All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home 4.46 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating — 622,689 ratings
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life 4.03 avg rating — 14,675 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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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
by: Tom Davis
3.66 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,638 ratings
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide 4.12 avg rating — 6,857 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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Cut
Cut 3.76 avg rating — 59,866 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,454 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,275 ratings
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Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin 3.39 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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Manic: A Memoir
Manic: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 12,026 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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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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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 3.28 avg rating — 10,821 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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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy 4.11 avg rating — 1,840 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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Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness
Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness 4.31 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating — 213,866 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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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell 3.91 avg rating — 73,658 ratings
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After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity
After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity 3.83 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy 4.25 avg rating — 39,910 ratings
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The Day the Voices Stopped
The Day the Voices Stopped 4.05 avg rating — 1,677 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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I Don't Want To Be Crazy
I Don't Want To Be Crazy 3.78 avg rating — 5,715 ratings
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky 3.87 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. 3.60 avg rating — 5,471 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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Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness 3.90 avg rating — 1,651 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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Madness: a Memoir
Madness: a Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 961 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
The Sunset Strip Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,456 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
When Rabbit Howls 4.05 avg rating — 17,789 ratings
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Crazy All the Time On the Psych Ward of Bellevue Hospital
Crazy All the Time On the Psych Ward of Bellevue Hospital 3.89 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Turn of Mind
Turn of Mind 3.64 avg rating — 14,996 ratings
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
by: Alex Beam
3.70 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell 3.72 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,228 ratings
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Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness
Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness 3.88 avg rating — 2,051 ratings
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit 4.01 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Diary of the Mad: A Short Story Collection
Diary of the Mad: A Short Story Collection 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 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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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,795 ratings
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He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him 3.86 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story 4.09 avg rating — 21,113 ratings
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Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort
Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort 3.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children 3.61 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir 3.73 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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Cutting: Self Injury And Emotional Pain
Cutting: Self Injury And Emotional Pain 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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On Being Ill
On Being Ill 3.98 avg rating — 2,778 ratings
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness 3.99 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Not As Crazy As I Seem
Not As Crazy As I Seem 3.57 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist 3.95 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
Anne Sexton: A Biography 4.17 avg rating — 4,026 ratings
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Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression 3.71 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide
November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide 4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings
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On the Cutting Edge: My Struggle With Self-injury and Mental Illness
On the Cutting Edge: My Struggle With Self-injury and Mental Illness liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery 3.75 avg rating — 113 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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Psychiatric Tales
Psychiatric Tales 3.61 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Zelda
Zelda 3.82 avg rating — 10,362 ratings
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The Pits and the Pendulum: A Life with Bipolar Disorder
The Pits and the Pendulum: A Life with Bipolar Disorder 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton 3.97 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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The Loony-Bin Trip
The Loony-Bin Trip 3.83 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Children Who Don't Want to Live: Understanding and Treating the Suicidal Child
Children Who Don't Want to Live: Understanding and Treating the Suicidal Child really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
Ten Days in a Mad-House 3.86 avg rating — 23,038 ratings
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A Schizophrenic Will
A Schizophrenic Will 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond
Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond 3.87 avg rating — 322 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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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness 3.62 avg rating — 224 ratings
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the molecules that surround us
the molecules that surround us 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic 4.03 avg rating — 786 ratings
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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy 4.28 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
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Conquering Anorexia: The Route to Recovery
Conquering Anorexia: The Route to Recovery 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Sanity, Madness and the Family
Sanity, Madness and the Family 4.19 avg rating — 466 ratings
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I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression
I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression 4.39 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
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Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia
Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia 4.30 avg rating — 548 ratings
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