The bell Jar – overall would say I liked it but found it very boring to read. I loved the prose and appreciated it *after* reading but it felt like a chore to get through
One flew over cuckoos nest – liked it
The yellow wallpaper – liked it
Do androids dream of electric sheep- didn’t like it, found it very boring
Dune- read some of it, didn’t like it
So yeah I think I’m interested in a book where the main character has some type of mental issue. I’m very open minded about the genre and plot!
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Ripe – Sarah Rose Etter
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Eileen or My Year of R&R – Otessa Moshfegh
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
sorrow and bliss by meg mason
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Catcher in the Rye
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Glitterland by Alexis Hall
Engleby – Sebastian Faulks
If non fiction is okay, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.
Flowers for Algernon
Try dune
Fragility of Light…. is very recent and I plowed through it. Helped me reframe my thoughts regarding mental illness. Highly recommend
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira Lee
It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Memory Watcher by Minka Kent
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
One for Sorrow by Sarah Denzil
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The stormlight archive series
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
If you are into epic fantasy, the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (first book is called Way of Kings) has many characters that deal with mental illnesses, such as depression, addiction, childhood trauma, and dissociative personality disorder. There’s also a novella in the series that focuses on a physically disabled character, if you are into that.
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner. Autism is not a disease, but the first POV is still unique, and the second and third POV can almost certainly be diagnosed with something undesirable.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shelter in Place by Alexander Maksik
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
[The Stranger – Albert Camus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12)
*Challenger Deep* by Neal Shusterman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18075234-challenger-deep
Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
[We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89724)
Many of Marian Keyes’s books feature characters dealing with things like mental health issues or addiction. They’re easy to read and funny in places, but also address serious issues.
Flowers for Algernon (a short story), by Daniel Keyes
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Gilman (novella)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg
Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
Endless Love, by Scott Spencer
Toffee, by Sarah Crossan
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova
The Woman in the Window, by.AJ Finn
Memento Mori, by Jonathan Nolan