Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental health care crisis in the …
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1. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
By: Ron Powers
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more
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- history
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- science
"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
2. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
By: Elizabeth Ford
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a re… read more
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- health
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- mental health
- nonfiction
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3. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
4. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
By: Mark Lukach
4.29
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and … read more
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- mental illness
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5. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jes… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
6. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , None
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately inv… read more
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7. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
By: Dean Spade
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Wait--what's wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming peopl… read more
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9. Obsessed: : A Memoir of My Life with OCD
By: None
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings read… read more
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10. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
11. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By: Dave Cullen
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
12. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
13. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- mental illness
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
14. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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- history
- health
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- science
15. Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
By: Thomas Insel MD
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care syst… read more
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- health
- medicine
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
16. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- history
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- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
17. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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- health
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- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
19. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party
By: Tulsi Gabbard
4.43
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and in… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
20. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more
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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
21. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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- history
- health
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
22. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
By: Tanya Frank
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more
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- mental illness
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
24. Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
By: Stephanie McNeal
3.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multib… read more
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25. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
By: Roy Richard Grinker
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more
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- history
- health
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- mental health
- mental illness
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". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
26. Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental health care crisis in the … read more
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- mental health
- mental illness
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- social justice
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27. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
28. Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
By: John Woodrow Cox
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Based on the acclaimed series—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—an intimate account of the devastat… read more
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- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- social justice
29. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Chris McGreal
4.15
Format: 336 pages, ebook
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more
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- health
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- medicine
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- science
30. Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration
By: Christine Montross
4.46
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- social justice
31. Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
By: Cara McGoogan
4.51
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
The shocking story of how corporate greed and political corruption turned a miracle cure for hemoph… read more
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- nonfiction
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