6 must-read mental health books like Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country by Merryl Hammond

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Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country

By: Merryl Hammond

4.12

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live with bipolar disorder? Ever agonized about whether yo…

If you liked the mental health plot in Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country by Merryl Hammond , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill, Lisa McCubbin

1. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know."

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

"it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s surprise and amusement while opening gifts. I can still hear the music, the gu…"

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

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2. The Orphan's Tale

By: Pam Jenoff

5.00

Format: None pages,

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale int… read more

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3. The Gene: An Intimate History

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health

4. Manic: A Memoir

By: Terri Cheney

2.89

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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5. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health

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. Without a Trace (Rock Harbor #1)

By: Colleen Coble

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  When a plane carrying Bree Nicholls' hu… read more

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8. Less than Crazy: Living Fully with Bipolar II

By: Karla Dougherty , None

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bipolar II is a form of bipolar disorder in which a person, when in a manic cycle, is crippled by a… read more

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9. Bad Behavior

By: Mary Gaitskill

4.11

Format: None pages,

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10. The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin… read more

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11. If You Ask Me

By: Betty White

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everyth… read more

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12. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

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13. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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14. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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16. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

By: B.J. Fogg

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
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17. The Pisces

By: Melissa Broder

3.30

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more

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"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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18. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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19. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

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20. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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21. The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Mouth to Mouth

By: Antoine Wilson

3.67

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more

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"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

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23. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail

By: Nicole Antoinette

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nicole … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Antoinette's How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail book and Merryl Hammond's Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

By: Jillian Horton

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
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26. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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27. When Katie Met Cassidy

By: Camille Perri

3.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women … read more

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"Do you like girls? Is. That. A. Thing. You. Do?"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"in such a setting a female body in a tuxedo- a tuxedo without a plunging neckline or cropped bottoms paired with stiletto heels, but a proper men’s tux- confused the hell out of people"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-…"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

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28. Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

By: Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

When Pinny started work as a psychotherapist, little did she imagine the shocking stories her clien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
"...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

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29. No Rules: A Memoir

By: Sharon Dukett

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this coming-of-age memoir, Sharon takes you with her on a nail-biting adventure through the earl… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Dukett's No Rules: A Memoir book and Merryl Hammond's Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"For most of us, the line between the destinations in our lives is seldom a straight one."

-Sharon Dukett, No Rules: A Memoir

Cover of Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country by Merryl Hammond

30. Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country

By: Merryl Hammond

4.12

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live with bipolar disorder? Ever agonized about whether yo… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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31. An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness (The Impossible Series Book 1)

By: Rachael Siddoway

4.30

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning memoir An Impossible Life tells the powerful true account of one woman's descent into… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health

18 Best nonfiction books like Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country by Merryl Hammond

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.22

Manic: A Memoir

Terri Cheney

2.89

Transform Your Habits

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

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9 Top nonfiction books like Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Transform Your Habits

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller , None

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

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