Literature About Mental Illness

1
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,381 members
504 reviews
4.1
2 Members
RuMuse, Priti12
2
The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3,980 members
167 reviews
4.1
2 Members
RuMuse, Priti12
3
Sybil
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
3,169 members
46 reviews
3.8
2 Members
dara85, RuMuse
4
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
62,340 members
813 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
5
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,785 members
560 reviews
4
Member
RuMuse
6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,785 members
320 reviews
4.1
Member
RuMuse
7
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,334 members
378 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
8
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,591 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
9
She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
13,104 members
219 reviews
3.8
Member
RuMuse
10
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,898 members
520 reviews
3.9
Member
RuMuse
11
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
11,464 members
607 reviews
4.1
Member
RuMuse
12
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
10,949 members
180 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
13
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,581 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
RuMuse
14
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
6,062 members
192 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
RuMuse
15
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
6,010 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
16
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
4,668 members
119 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
RuMuse
17
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by Joanne Greenberg
3,156 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
RuMuse
18
The Double Bind
by Chris Bohjalian
2,796 members
172 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
19
Ordinary People
by Judith Guest
2,466 members
40 reviews
3.9
Member
RuMuse
20
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante
1,792 members
64 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
21
A Solitary Blue
by Cynthia Voigt
1,625 members
27 reviews
4
Member
RuMuse
22
Broken For You
by Stephanie Kallos
1,541 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
RuMuse
23
The Second Coming
by Walker Percy
1,136 members
10 reviews
4
Member
RuMuse
24
Imagine Me Gone
by Adam Haslett
1,057 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
RuMuse
25
Notes from an Exhibition
by Patrick Gale
1,036 members
43 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
26
The Four-Gated City
by Doris Lessing
731 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
27
Waiting for Bojangles
by Olivier Bourdeaut
335 members
18 reviews
3.8
Member
RuMuse
28
Crazy
by Han Nolan
268 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
RuMuse
29
Essential Maps for the Lost
by Deb Caletti
120 members
4 reviews
3.2
Member
RuMuse
30
Caring Is Creepy
by David Zimmerman
82 members
15 reviews
3.2
Member
RuMuse
31
Just Call Me Superhero
by Alina Bronsky
72 members
3 reviews
3.2
Member
RuMuse
32
Funerals for Horses
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
41 members
3 reviews
4
Member
RuMuse
33
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
68,165 members
1,018 reviews
4.2
34
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
12,764 members
290 reviews
½ 3.5
35
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
8,480 members
331 reviews
3.9
36
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,846 members
219 reviews
½ 3.7
37
Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
15,428 members
321 reviews
½ 3.5