Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,535 ratings
2.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,371 ratings
3.
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,183 ratings
4.
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides 3.78 avg rating — 395,240 ratings
5.
Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation 3.64 avg rating — 63,383 ratings
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,609 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 — 84,147 ratings
8.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,892 ratings
9.
Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating — 622,653 ratings
10.
White Oleander
White Oleander really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 363,319 ratings
11.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,205 ratings
12.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating — 34,821 ratings
13.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating — 991,991 ratings
14.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,183 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 — 90,415 ratings
16.
She’s Come Undone
She’s Come Undone 3.91 avg rating — 357,215 ratings
17.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,067 ratings
18.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,191 ratings
19.
My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me
My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me 3.93 avg rating — 475 ratings
20.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,494 ratings
21.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.92 avg rating — 273,747 ratings
22.
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska 3.96 avg rating — 1,715,881 ratings
23.
Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice 3.74 avg rating — 288,650 ratings
24.
Wintergirls
Wintergirls 3.96 avg rating — 124,788 ratings
25.
The Jamange Line
The Jamange Line 4.32 avg rating — 126 ratings
26.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why
by: Jay Asher
3.84 avg rating — 1,013,835 ratings
27.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,254 ratings
28.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,417 ratings
29.
The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,845 ratings
30.
Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects 4.01 avg rating — 1,179,136 ratings
31.
Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating — 355,926 ratings
32.
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs 4.17 avg rating — 414 ratings
33.
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,830 ratings
34.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,452 ratings
35.
Strange Love: How Pro Wrestling Taught Me to Relax and Love My Mom
Strange Love: How Pro Wrestling Taught Me to Relax and Love My Mom 4.48 avg rating — 69 ratings
36.
Cut
Cut 3.76 avg rating — 59,865 ratings
37.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,344 ratings
38.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,861 ratings
39.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,242 ratings
40.
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life 4.03 avg rating — 14,674 ratings
41.
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,256 ratings
42.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,539 ratings
43.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,251 ratings
44.
Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die 3.73 avg rating — 237,006 ratings
45.
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 — 213,849 ratings
46.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,710 ratings
47.
Swimming Upstream
Swimming Upstream 3.47 avg rating — 754 ratings
48.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,044 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 — 171,412 ratings
50.
Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 101,353 ratings
51.
Surfacing
Surfacing 3.45 avg rating — 28,046 ratings
52.
Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 701 ratings
53.
Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time 3.92 avg rating — 18,309 ratings
54.
Everything Here Is Beautiful
Everything Here Is Beautiful 3.93 avg rating — 19,980 ratings
55.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,903 ratings
56.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,144 ratings
57.
It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story 4.07 avg rating — 260,065 ratings
58.
Without MAlice
Without MAlice 4.03 avg rating — 365 ratings
59.
Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking 3.82 avg rating — 91,320 ratings
60.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,652 ratings
61.
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls 3.90 avg rating — 4,704 ratings
62.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 765,830 ratings
63.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,404 ratings
64.
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
Impulse (Impulse, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 81,828 ratings
65.
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder 3.96 avg rating — 7,365 ratings
66.
Manic: A Memoir
Manic: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 12,025 ratings
67.
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 455,026 ratings
68.
The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides 4.26 avg rating — 213,968 ratings
69.
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 — 3,883 ratings
70.
Willow
Willow 3.90 avg rating — 32,759 ratings
71.
Lisa, Bright and Dark
Lisa, Bright and Dark 3.63 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
72.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) 4.26 avg rating — 968,854 ratings
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And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder 4.11 avg rating — 8,650 ratings
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Defective
Defective 4.21 avg rating — 121 ratings
75.
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep 3.90 avg rating — 360,173 ratings
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,620 ratings
77.
Identical
Identical 4.29 avg rating — 66,316 ratings
78.
The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle 3.97 avg rating — 50,382 ratings
79.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 153,245 ratings
80.
Misery
Misery 4.23 avg rating — 815,509 ratings
81.
The Best Little Girl in the World
The Best Little Girl in the World 3.68 avg rating — 5,499 ratings
82.
Faces in the Water
Faces in the Water 4.02 avg rating — 2,612 ratings
83.
My Beautiful Psychosis
My Beautiful Psychosis 4.69 avg rating — 45 ratings
84.
The Night Child
The Night Child 3.74 avg rating — 5,611 ratings
85.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,377 ratings
86.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,189 ratings
87.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 3.94 avg rating — 50,739 ratings
88.
Save Me the Waltz
Save Me the Waltz 3.52 avg rating — 4,451 ratings
89.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 3.87 avg rating — 592,694 ratings
90.
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood 3.74 avg rating — 20,071 ratings
91.
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 — 9,616 ratings
92.
The Last Time I Wore a Dress
The Last Time I Wore a Dress 3.89 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
92.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Will There Really Be a Morning? 4.11 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
94.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
95.
The Kingdom of Childhood
The Kingdom of Childhood 3.34 avg rating — 1,993 ratings
95.
Nothing Like Normal: Surviving a Sibling's Schizophrenia
Nothing Like Normal: Surviving a Sibling's Schizophrenia 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings
97.
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,411 ratings
98.
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
99.
The Loony-Bin Trip
The Loony-Bin Trip 3.83 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
100.
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings
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