5 must-read self help books like An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness (The Impossible Series Book 1) by Rachael Siddoway

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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…

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1. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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

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2. All the Old Knives

By: Olen Steinhauer

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took over a hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went terri… read more

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3. 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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4. 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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5. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life

By: Melody Moezzi

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences … read more

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6. Ghost Boy

By: Megan Lloyd Davies , Martin Pistorius

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In Ja… read more

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7. Through Gates of Splendor

By: Elisabeth Elliot

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to e… read more

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8. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

By: Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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9. 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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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

By: John Boyne

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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12. The Lost English Girl

By: Julia Kelly

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal… read more

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  • audiobook
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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 health
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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

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14. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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15. The Women of the Copper Country

By: Mary Doria Russell

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was … read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Between Earth and Sky

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.34

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her p… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. I Was Told It Would Get Easier

By: Abbi Waxman

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom."

-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

"Beauty always fades, but it lasts so much longer if you lay a thick layer of intelligence and integrity underneath it."

-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

"Regret is one of those emotions that outpunches reality: Even if you 100 percent could not have done things differently, it still pops up and takes a jab."

-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

"Looking across the table at Alice, I realized a lack of eye contact was a constant for teenagers. It's not that they won't look at you, it's that they have many other things to look at and, to be hon…"

-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

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18. A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1)

By: Paige Dearth

4.47

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Rainey Paxton was born addicted to heroin. In the fragile first hours of Rainey’s life, hospital… read more

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"A little pinprick changed my whole life. That’s all it takes—it’s that quick."

-Paige Dearth, A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1)

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19. The Consequence of Anna

By: Kate Birkin

4.16

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more

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  • mental health
"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

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20. The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy

By: John M. Gottman

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And mos… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason

21. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

22. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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23. Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

By: Michael Caine

3.91

Format: 289 pages, Audiobook

Now in his 85th year, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a True Story (Samantha Mallon, #1) by C.L.  Heckman

24. Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a True Story (Samantha Mallon, #1)

By: C.L. Heckman

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

After years of torture, a mentally and physically abused daughter finally stands up to her abusers,… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist by Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

25. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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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26. The Bright Unknown

By: Elizabeth Byler Younts

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two young friends embark upon an epic journey across 1940s middle America in search of answers, a f… read more

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  • audiobook
"Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on …"

-Elizabeth Byler Younts, The Bright Unknown

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27. What the Man in the Moon Told Me: Living With Bipolar II A Memoir

By: Frank Stanton

4.40

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Frank Stanton was a man accustomed to dealing with dark depressions but his first experience with m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan

28. Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

By: Patrick Dylan

4.45

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyo… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country by Merryl Hammond

29. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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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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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science

17 Best audiobook books like An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness (The Impossible Series Book 1) by Rachael Siddoway

Transform Your Habits

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

John Boyne

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

4.07

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Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

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