8 must-read mental health books like A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

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A Room Called Earth

By: Madeleine Ryan

3.69

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a …

"Dancing in the rain doesn’t “make sense"

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"Everything comes alive when I'm technically by myself."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"I just like having something edible to look forward to."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"It's strange to think that we're all here because someone wasn't killed at some point."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

If you liked the mental health plot in A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat, #2)

By: Francesca Lia Block

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even though she … read more

Similar categories in Francesca Lia Block's Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat, #2) book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • fiction

2. You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

By: Alida Nugent

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The author of Don't Worry It Gets Worsetakes on the F-word Alida Nugent's first book, Don't Worry … read more

Similar categories in Alida Nugent's You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

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3. Funny Ethnics

By: Shirley Le

3.58

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoo… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Le's Funny Ethnics book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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4. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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5. A Room Called Earth

By: Madeleine Ryan

3.69

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a … read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • disability
"Dancing in the rain doesn’t “make sense"

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"Everything comes alive when I'm technically by myself."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"I just like having something edible to look forward to."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

"It's strange to think that we're all here because someone wasn't killed at some point."

-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

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6. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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7. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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8. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • disability
  • mental health
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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9. Dark Woods, Deep Water

By: Jelena Dunato

3.83

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

In the depths of a remote forest, an enchanted castle preys on unwary travellers. The servants of t… read more

Similar categories in Jelena Dunato's Dark Woods, Deep Water book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • adult
  • fiction
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10. little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Watson's little scratch book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of An Old Man's Game (Amos Parisman Mystery, #1) by Andy Weinberger

11. An Old Man's Game (Amos Parisman Mystery, #1)

By: Andy Weinberger

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

"Andy Weinberger has done something extraordinary with his first he’s written a truly great detect… read more

Similar categories in Andy Weinberger's An Old Man's Game (Amos Parisman Mystery, #1) book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • fiction
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12. The Poet

By: Louisa Reid

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her former professor--and she's losing … read more

Similar categories in Louisa Reid's The Poet book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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13. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald

14. Everything Feels Like the End of the World

By: Else Fitzgerald

3.72

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring p… read more

Similar categories in Else Fitzgerald's Everything Feels Like the End of the World book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • australia
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15. We Were Young

By: Niamh Campbell

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the lef… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Campbell's We Were Young book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

16. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

By: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

3.77

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys." In Nosta… read more

Similar categories in Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • adult
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17. Gender Theory

By: Madeline Docherty

4.27

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Docherty's Gender Theory book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Everyone I Know is Dying by Emily Slapper

18. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

Similar categories in Emily Slapper's Everyone I Know is Dying book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Fragile Creatures: A Memoir by Khin Myint

19. Fragile Creatures: A Memoir

By: Khin Myint

3.55

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful debut from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremityKhin's sister Theda ha… read more

Similar categories in Khin Myint's Fragile Creatures: A Memoir book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

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20. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

Similar categories in Evie Wyld's The Echoes book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Tear

By: Erica McKeen

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A reclamation of female rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman. Frances is quiet and rec… read more

Similar categories in Erica McKeen's Tear book and Madeleine Ryan's A Room Called Earth

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction

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Francesca Lia Block

3.54

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Shirley Le

3.58

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Madeleine Ryan

3.69

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Melissa Broder

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Samantha Harvey

3.73

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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