Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)

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Ten Days in a Mad-House
Ten Days in a Mad-House 3.86 avg rating — 23,034 ratings
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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood 3.58 avg rating — 4,744 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
When Rabbit Howls 4.05 avg rating — 17,788 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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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction 4.04 avg rating — 675 ratings
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A Walk Between Raindrops
A Walk Between Raindrops 4.30 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,570 ratings
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I Don't Want To Be Crazy
I Don't Want To Be Crazy 3.78 avg rating — 5,714 ratings
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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge 3.62 avg rating — 18,373 ratings
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women 3.96 avg rating — 2,501 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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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,891 ratings
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The Trick is to Keep Breathing
The Trick is to Keep Breathing 3.83 avg rating — 3,378 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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An Angel at My Table (Autobiography, #2)
An Angel at My Table (Autobiography, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Turtles All the Way Down
Turtles All the Way Down 3.88 avg rating — 626,518 ratings
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir 3.94 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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We Were Liars
We Were Liars 3.66 avg rating — 1,303,972 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,129 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,924 ratings
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Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes 4.17 avg rating — 409,038 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,580 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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A Long Way Down
A Long Way Down 3.44 avg rating — 90,596 ratings
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Good Morning, Midnight
Good Morning, Midnight
by: Jean Rhys
3.86 avg rating — 12,136 ratings
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Beautiful Affliction
Beautiful Affliction 3.86 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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Girl Fighter
Girl Fighter 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Les Pensees Dangereuses
Les Pensees Dangereuses 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness 4.17 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Finding Alice
Finding Alice 4.04 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,563 ratings
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Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body 3.77 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 696,569 ratings
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The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train 3.96 avg rating — 3,202,310 ratings
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Paper Towns
Paper Towns 3.70 avg rating — 1,465,032 ratings
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 453,200 ratings
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Madness: a Memoir
Madness: a Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 961 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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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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Pros of Prozac: A Faith-based Memoir of Overcoming the Stigma
Pros of Prozac: A Faith-based Memoir of Overcoming the Stigma
by: Beca Mark
4.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
142.
Reflections of Mamie - A Story of Survival
Reflections of Mamie - A Story of Survival 3.75 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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Dawn Among the Stars
Dawn Among the Stars 4.46 avg rating — 100 ratings
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All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating — 31,461 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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Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings
Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings 3.87 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
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Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl 3.96 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,429 ratings
150.
Scars
Scars 4.15 avg rating — 15,501 ratings
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Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir
Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir 3.45 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 71,476 ratings
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Perfect (Impulse, #2)
Perfect (Impulse, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 30,794 ratings
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Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls 3.84 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 4.03 avg rating — 5,182 ratings
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Fangirl
Fangirl 3.94 avg rating — 772,378 ratings
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 4.23 avg rating — 1,370,986 ratings
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Women and Madness
Women and Madness 3.85 avg rating — 953 ratings
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Electra
Electra
by: Sophocles
3.82 avg rating — 13,851 ratings
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Living Dead Girl
Living Dead Girl 3.78 avg rating — 33,768 ratings
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
The Story of Beautiful Girl 3.94 avg rating — 27,238 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 232,238 ratings
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Broken Point (The Wayward Gifted, #1)
Broken Point (The Wayward Gifted, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
Unwifeable: A Memoir 3.58 avg rating — 3,265 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Dark Lake (Oshkosh, #1)
The Dark Lake (Oshkosh, #1) 3.27 avg rating — 208 ratings
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2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
by: Harpie
3.94 avg rating — 289 ratings
168.
I Am Her... (I Am Her..., #1)
I Am Her... (I Am Her..., #1) 3.95 avg rating — 843 ratings
169.
Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet, #1)
Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 9,626 ratings
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Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface
Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface 3.97 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors 3.69 avg rating — 934 ratings
172.
In The Eye of The Beholder: A Novel of The Phantom of the Opera
In The Eye of The Beholder: A Novel of The Phantom of the Opera 3.66 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror 4.39 avg rating — 15,051 ratings
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness 4.11 avg rating — 29,544 ratings
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Erie County
Erie County it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Story of an Hour
The Story of an Hour 4.06 avg rating — 25,995 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners 3.82 avg rating — 9,083 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 — 41,533 ratings
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Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley's Secret 3.78 avg rating — 26,003 ratings
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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression 3.76 avg rating — 4,141 ratings
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Invisible Monsters
Invisible Monsters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 149,310 ratings
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Skin Game
Skin Game 3.76 avg rating — 3,304 ratings
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Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)
Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 6,837 ratings
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating — 26,125 ratings
185.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,037 ratings
186.
The Tenth Circle
The Tenth Circle 3.54 avg rating — 135,445 ratings
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More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction 3.88 avg rating — 6,883 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
188.
Trashed
Trashed 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
188.
The End of Miracles
The End of Miracles 3.88 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
The Sunset Strip Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
191.
Time To Let Go
Time To Let Go 3.79 avg rating — 497 ratings
193.
The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness
The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness 3.98 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Schasm (Schasm, #1)
Schasm (Schasm, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 340 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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An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus 3.51 avg rating — 298 ratings
197.
Kissing Doorknobs
Kissing Doorknobs 3.92 avg rating — 3,401 ratings
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Girl in Pieces
Girl in Pieces 3.94 avg rating — 251,337 ratings
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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities 4.04 avg rating — 4,533 ratings
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Passing for Normal
Passing for Normal 3.73 avg rating — 623 ratings
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