Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual
By: Terri Cheney
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Terri Cheney ripped the covers off her secret battle with bipolar disorder in her New York Times be…
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1. Madness: A Bipolar Life
By: Marya Hornbacher
4.03
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights W… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- self help
"Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
2. 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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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- 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
3. Jailbird
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more
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4. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
By: John Elder Robison
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more
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- biography
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5. Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
By: Geoffrey Canada
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Recreating his childhood world in the South Bronx and examining current crime legislation, the auth… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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7. The Outside Boy
By: Jeanine Cummins
5.00
Format: 208 pages,
Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family… read more
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8. The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
By: D. Watkins
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBest Seller! Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Hav… read more
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9. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
By: Ellen Forney
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more
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10. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
By: Mark Vonnegut
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegu… read more
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11. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- self help
- biography
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- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. 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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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- memoir
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- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. 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
- audiobook
15. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
By: James Renner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
17. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
18. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
19. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
21. Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
By: Marc Brackett
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permissio… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
22. 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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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. 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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- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
24. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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25. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
By: Tiffany Jenkins
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 f… read more
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- psychology
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…"-Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
26. Rx
By: Rachel Lindsay
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity. I… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance."-Rachel Lindsay, Rx
27. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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28. The Parakeet
By: Espé
4.35
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has what his father and grandparents c… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
By: Andy Dunn
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder th… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. To Love and Let Go
By: Rachel Brathen
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Rachel beautifully illustrates that loving fiercely and grieving deeply are often two halves of th… read more
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31. Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual
By: Terri Cheney
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Terri Cheney ripped the covers off her secret battle with bipolar disorder in her New York Times be… read more
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