8 Top mental health books like Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

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Impulse (Impulse, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three li…

If you liked the mental health plot in Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Suicide Notes

By: Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does th… read more

Similar categories in Michael Thomas Ford's Suicide Notes book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I didn't ask to be saved"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"you either are or aren't"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy."

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

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2. Lucy in the Sky

By: Anonymous

4.04

Format: 202 pages,

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.The a… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Lucy in the Sky book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

By: Nic Sheff

3.34

Format: 320 pages,

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more

Similar categories in Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • mental health
Cover of Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

4. Impulse (Impulse, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three li… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1) book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)

By: Dave Pelzer

3.59

Format: 370 pages,

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]  This book chronicles the unforgettable ac… read more

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6. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass by Niki Burnham, Ellen Hopkins, Cinda Williams Chima, Megan Kelley Hall, Gail Giles, Micol Ostow, Susan Hart Lindquist, Terri  Clark, Mary Bryan

7. Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

By: Niki Burnham , Ellen Hopkins , Cinda Williams Chima , Megan Kelley Hall , Gail Giles , Micol Ostow , Susan Hart Lindquist , Terri Clark , Mary Bryan

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and… read more

Similar categories in Niki Burnham's Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • contemporary

8. By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

By: Julie Anne Peters , None

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determin… read more

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9. ttyl (Internet Girls, #1)

By: Lauren Myracle

3.45

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

On the first day of tenth grade, best friends Maddie (mad maddie), Angela (SnowAngel), and Zoe (zoe… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Myracle's ttyl (Internet Girls, #1) book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

10. Cut

By: Patricia McCormick

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to fe… read more

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11. It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

4.08

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means gettin… read more

Similar categories in Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

12. Willow

By: Julia Hoban

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Seven months ago on a rainy March night, Willow's parents drank too much wine at dinner and asked h… read more

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13. 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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14. Peeps (Peeps, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Last year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that… read more

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15. Scars

By: Cheryl Rainfield

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Kendra, fifteen, hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexua… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Rainfield's Scars book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But of course it couldn't last. Nothing good ever does."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"It was easier to ask for forgiveness than it was to get permission."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

16. Jay's Journal

By: Beatrice Sparks

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambi… read more

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17. Letting Ana Go

By: Anonymous

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction… read more

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18. Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more

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19. Wintergirls

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, L… read more

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20. Thirteen Reasons Why

By: Jay Asher

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is … read more

Similar categories in Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I’m sorry."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"Everything...affects everything"

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"A lot of you cared, just not enough."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

Cover of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

21. Speak

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak book and Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

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Lucy in the Sky

Anonymous

4.04

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Impulse (Impulse, #1)

Ellen Hopkins

3.92

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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Ellen Hopkins

4.16

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Meg Cabot

3.85

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Natasha Friend

3.70

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Natasha Friend

3.81

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