Mental Health Awareness Month highlights the importance of mental wellness and promotes advocacy, sharing, compassion, and the dismantling of stereotypes. Mental health conditions are wide-ranging and include PTSD, OCD, generalized anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation, and more. The following books—literary fiction, romance, memoirs, and essays—were written by authors who have personal experience living with mental health challenges and speak to the importance of continued dialogue surrounding mental health.
Mental Health Awareness Month highlights the importance of mental wellness and promotes advocacy, sharing, compassion, and the dismantling of stereotypes. Mental health conditions are wide-ranging and include PTSD, OCD, generalized anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation, and more. The following books—literary fiction, romance, memoirs, and essays—were written by authors who have personal experience living with mental health challenges and speak to the importance of continued dialogue surrounding mental health. These titles, and those selected from previous years, are available as a downloadable spreadsheet.
Austin, Emily. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Washington Square. Jun. 2022. 256p. ISBN 9781982167363. FICTION/LITERARY
Chan, Jessamine. The School for Good Mothers. S. & S. Jan. 2022. 336p. ISBN 9781982156121. FICTION/LITERARY
Dong, Maria. Liar, Dreamer, Thief. Grand Central. Jan. 2023. 336p. ISBN 9781538723562. FICTION/PSYCHOLOGICAL
Escoria, Juliet. Juliet the Maniac. Melville House. Apr. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781685891275. FICTION/COMING OF AGE
Haig, Matt. The Midnight Library. Viking. Sept. 2020. 304p. ISBN 9780525559474. FICTION/WOMEN
Hibbert, Talia. Get a Life, Chloe Brown. Avon. Nov. 2019. 384p. ISBN 9780062941206. FICTION/ROMANCE/CONTEMPORARY
Jimenez, Abby. Yours Truly. Forever. Apr. 2023. 416p. ISBN 9781538704394. FICTION/ROMANCE/CONTEMPORARY
Ozlu. Cold Nights of Childhood. Transit. May. 2023. 160p. ISBN 9781945492693. FICTION/LITERARY
Simpson, Mona. Commitment. Knopf. Mar. 2023. 416p. ISBN 9780593319277. FICTION/FAMILY LIFE/SIBLINGS
Solomon, Rachel Lynn. Weather Girl. Berkley. Jan. 2022. 352p. ISBN 9780593200148. FICTION/ROMANCE/WORKPLACE
Bennett, Andrea. Like a Boy but Not a Boy. Arsenal Pulp. Oct. 2020. 272p. ISBN 9781551528212. SOCIAL SCIENCE/LGBTQ+ STUDIES/TRANSGENDER STUDIES
Cook, Courtney. The Way She Feels. Tin House. Jun. 2021. 250p. ISBN 9781951142599. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS
Danquah, Nana-Ama. Willow Weep for Me. Norton. Oct. 2023. 304p. ISBN 9781324050612. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEDICAL (INCL. PATIENTS)
Henick, Mark. So-Called Normal. HarperCollins. Jan. 2021. 304p. ISBN 9781443455039. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS
Hiller, Alice. bird of winter. Pavilion Poetry. Apr. 2019. 86p. ISBN 9781800348691. POETRY
Ikpi, Bassey. I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying. Harper Perennial. Aug. 2019. 272p. ISBN 9780062698346. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS
Lawson, Jenny. Broken (in the best possible way). Holt. Apr. 2021. 304p. ISBN 9781250077035. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS
Mehler Paperny, Anna. Hello I Want To Die Please Fix Me. The Experiment. Mar. 2020. 352p. ISBN 9781615194926. PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/DEPRESSION
Tung, Debbie. Everything Is OK. Andrews McMeel. Sept. 2022. 208p. ISBN 9781524863272. HUMOR/FORM/COMIC STRIPS & CARTOONS
Wang, Esme Weijun. The Collected Schizophrenias. Graywolf. Feb. 2019. 224p. ISBN 9781555978273. LITERARY COLLECTIONS/ESSAYS
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