There needs to be an open discussion about mental health. And what better way to stand up to the stigma than to read fiction books that portray the topic perfectly. Readers appreciate to have characters that we can connect with and see as real people. So for Mental Awareness Month, here is a list of books that portray mental illness more realistically:
All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Every Last Word – Tamara Ireland Stone
It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini
Looking for Alaska – John Green
White Oleander – Janet Fitch
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Rest of Us Just Live Here – Patrick Ness
A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera
The Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D Salinger
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Challenger Deep – Neal Shusterman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Finding Audrey – Sophie Kinsella
Dancing on Broken Glass – Ka Hancock
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The Grownup – Gillian Flynn
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Discover more from cup of tea with that book, please
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