f You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations for stories about mental illness.
If you like stories about mental illness, you might like…
Books
Recommended by Kari @ A Good Addiction:
- Compulsion by Heidi Ayarbe: OCD. In a really raw way.
- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi: Okay so not really mental illness in the typical sense, but Juliette is in an asylum at the start. Locked away.
- Hold Still by Nina LaCour: Suicide. And being left behind.
- Crash Into Me by Albert Borris: Four teens with a suicide pact on a road trip.
- Clean by Amy Reed: Not mental illness so much as addiction, but they are in rehab. So it counts in my mind. And its a darn good book.
- Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves: Schizophrenia! And some other craziness.
- Break by Hannah Moskowitz: A boy who breaks his own bones. Yeah.
- Dirty Little Secrets by C. J. Omololu: Hoarding!
Recommended by April @ Good Books and Good Wine:
- Without Tess by Marcella Pixely: Basically Lizzie’s older sister Tess commits suicide because she can’t live in a fantasy world, so she doesn’t want to live at all. That’s not a spoiler either, it’s right in the summary.
Recommended by Capillya @ That Cover Girl:
- Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork: My favorite mental illness book.
Recommended by Annette @ Annette’s Book Spot:
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini: It’s a movie too.
- Dirty Little Secrets by C. J. Omololu: About hoarding.
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey: I know it’s a popular movie, but the book was very good.
- Sybil: The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities
by Flora Rheta Schreiber: Also a movie.
- Inside Out by Terry Trueman
- I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
- Wild Roses by Deb Caletti
- I Will Save You by Matt de la Pena
- Cut by Patricia McCormick: A must read for teens, if you haven’t already read it!
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson: A bit of a stretch, but I think this one can be categorizes as mental illness.
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane: This one’s more of a mystery, but takes place in a mental asylum. Once again, also a movie.
Recommended by Gina @ The Bucket List:
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: This is a classic that hits readers’ heart every time with its true depiction of depression.
Recommended by Twan @ Artie Is My Muse:
Fiction
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Scars by Cheryl Rainfeld
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America by E.R. Frank
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Perfect by Natasha Friend
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Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
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Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
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By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
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Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
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Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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Cut by Patricia McCormick
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You Know Where to Find Me by Rachel Cohn
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White Oleander by Janet Fitch
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
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Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo
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She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
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The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
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Willow by Julia Hoban
Memoir
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I Don’t Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy by Emily Fox Gordon
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent
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Find Me by Rosie O’Donnell
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
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You Remind Me of You by Eireann Corrigan
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Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Non-Fiction
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Columbine by Dave Cullen
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Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
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A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain by Marilee Strong
Movies
Recommended by April @ Good Books and Good Wine:
- Shutter Island: Takes place in a Mental Asylum – scary stuff, yo.
Recommended by Gina @ The Bucket List:
- A Beautiful Mind: A professor begins decrypting passwords and such for the government, only to realize they were never real in the first place. Based on a true story.
- Rain Man: After the father passes, a man discovers he has an Autistic brother. He steals him from his guardians and takes him on a road trip of a lifetime.
Recommended by Twan @ Artie Is My Muse:
TV Shows
Recommended by Twan @ Artie Is My Muse:
What are your favorite books, movies, tv shows, or music featuring mental illness? Please share your own recommendations in the comments!
