5 must-read mental illness books like Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves by Jesse Bering

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Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

By: Jesse Bering

3.92

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a succ…

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1. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter… read more

Similar categories in Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide book and Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy "

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Parents also seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Disconcertingly, one of the highest-risk periods for suicide is when patients are actually recovering from depression."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Suicide, dangerously, has a contagious aspect; it has, as well, for the vulnerable, an indisputable appeal as the solution of last resort."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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2. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (A Magical Cats Mystery, #1)

By: Sofie Kelly

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two stra… read more

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3. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By: Steve Coll

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

By: Michael Harris

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris' take on existence is calm, unique… read more

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5. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

By: Thomas E. Ricks

3.72

Format: 224 pages,

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6. Kiss of Broken Glass

By: Madeleine Kuderick

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the next 72 hours, Kenna may lose everything--her friends, her freedom, and maybe even herself. … read more

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7. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

By: Melissa Mohr

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovere… read more

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8. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

By: Philip Carlo

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

There were times at home when Richard would have one of his outbursts and break things and then loc… read more

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9. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

Similar categories in Clancy Martin's How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind book and Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

By: Eleanor Herman

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roilin… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Last Messiah

By: Peter Wessel Zapffe

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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13. The Girls at 17 Swann Street

By: Yara Zgheib

3.97

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, … read more

Similar categories in Yara Zgheib's The Girls at 17 Swann Street book and Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

  • mental illness
  • mental health
  • audiobook
"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."

-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street

Cover of Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person by Anna Mehler Paperny

14. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

By: Anna Mehler Paperny

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."

-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"

-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

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15. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

By: Nick Pyenson

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

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16. Clean: The New Science of Skin

By: James Hamblin

3.91

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more

Similar categories in James Hamblin's Clean: The New Science of Skin book and Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

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17. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

By: Michael Ignatieff

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, a… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Whatever we think of Job and his God, we must begin any history of the idea of consolation here, for the story describes the human situation so clearly. Job's story tells us we are fated to endure so…"

-Michael Ignatieff, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

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18. Death in Glacier National Park: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent

By: Randi Minetor

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Glacier National Park’s death records date… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves by Jesse Bering

19. Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

By: Jesse Bering

3.92

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a succ… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves book and Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. Soho

By: Richard Scott

4.09

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.37

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