Ten Books to Read for Mental Health Awareness Month

                                      

It's pretty embarrassing that I'm posting this at the end of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month but better late than never, right?

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

(semi-autobiographical, classic, depression)

2. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

(memoir, nonfiction, depression)

3. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kraysen

(memoir, nonfiction, borderline personality disorder)

4. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

(memoir, bipolar disorder)

5. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb 

(fiction, schizophrenia)

6. Still Alice by Lisa Genova

(fiction, early-onset Alzheimer's disease)

7. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

(young adult, bipolar disorder)

8. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

(young adult, fiction)

9. Unbearable Lightness by Portia De Rossi

(memoir, anorexia)

10. Blackout by Sarah Hepola 

(memoir, alcoholism)