Friday, June 19, 2015

Mental Health in Literature



Fiction

1. "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki
2. "After Birth" by Elisa Albert
3. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
4. "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich
5. "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
6. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
7. "Hausfrau" by Jill Alexander Essbaum
8. "A Gesture Life" by Chang-rae Lee
9. "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
10. "Nobody Is Ever Missing" by Catherine Lacey
11. "OCD Love Story" by Corey Ann Haydu

Nonfiction

12. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
13. "Willow Weep for Me" by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
14. "Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Lewis Herman
15. "After a While You Just Get Used To It" by Gwendolyn Knapp
16. "Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression" edited by Nell Casey
17. "Stop Walking on Eggshells" by Paul Mason
18. "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" by Marya Hornbacher
19. "Don't Panic" by R. Reid Wilson, PhD
20. "Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive" by Emily Colas
21. "Lit" by Mary Karr
22. "Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story" by Mac McClelland
23. "Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African Americans" by Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander
24. "Hyperbole and a Half" by Allie Brosh

*This list was published on Buzzfeed on June 9. Click HERE for more information about the books listed.

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