5 must-read mental health books like The Pulling by Adele Dumont

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The Pulling

By: Adele Dumont

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When I’ve been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the ai…

If you liked the mental health plot in The Pulling by Adele Dumont , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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2. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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4. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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5. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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6. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

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7. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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8. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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9. Whenever You're Ready

By: Trish Bolton

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn betwe… read more

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"Lizzie understood too well the focus on the task. The bottom to be washed, the bed to be changed, human attentions lost to overwork and time management. What must it be like to work in such a place t…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

"It always felt strange that life outside went on, thought Lizzie, after saying goodbye to her mother, there was so much sorrow within those four walls, she wondered how it could possibly be contained…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

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10. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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11. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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12. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

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13. 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

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"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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14. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

Similar categories in Anne Buist's The Glass House book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • psychology
  • mental health
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15. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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16. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie  Wood

17. Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

By: Stephanie Wood

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry an… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wood's Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
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18. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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19. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

Similar categories in Sanya Rushdi's Hospital book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • psychology
  • mental health
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20. Thunderhead

By: Miranda Darling

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more

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21. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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22. Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life

By: Annie Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From psychotherapist and TikTok personality Dr. Annie Zimmerman comes a toolkit to transform yourse… read more

Similar categories in Annie Zimmerman's Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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23. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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24. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

Similar categories in Ariane Beeston's Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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25. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

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26. The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

4.49

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.'Lucia Osborne-… read more

Similar categories in Lucia Osborne-Crowley's The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
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27. 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

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28. The Pulling

By: Adele Dumont

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When I’ve been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the ai… read more

Similar categories in Adele Dumont's The Pulling book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda 'Froomes' Price's All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. Sassafras

By: Rebecca Huntley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When you know that you need help but conventional means have failed you, what is left is the unexpe… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Huntley's Sassafras book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • memoir
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31. How to Knit a Human: A memoir

By: Anna Jacobson

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it. I w… read more

Similar categories in Anna Jacobson's How to Knit a Human: A memoir book and Adele Dumont's The Pulling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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