Mental Health Awareness Month | 10 Books To Add to the Collection and Share with Readers

by Sarah Hashimoto
Mar 21, 2023 | Filed in Reviews+

Mental Health Awareness Month highlights the importance of mental wellness and promotes advocacy, sharing, compassion, and the dismantling of stereotypes. 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.

Austin, Emily Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Washington Square Press 9781982167363 Chan, Jessamine The School for Good Mothers S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books 9781982156121 Escoria, Juliet Juliet the Maniac Melville House 9781612197593 Haig, Matt The Midnight Library Penguin Books 9780525559498 Hibbert, Talia Get a Life, Chloe Brown Avon 9780062941206 bennett, andrea Like a Boy but Not a Boy Arsenal Pulp Press 9781551528212 Ikpi, Bassey I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Harper Perennial 9780062698346 Mehler Paperny, Anna Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me The Experiment 9781615194926 Tung, Debbie Everything Is OK Andrews McMeel Publishing 9781524863272 Wang, Esme Weijun The Collected Schizophrenias Graywolf Press 9781555978273

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