Mental Health Awareness Month | A Reading List

by Sarah Hashimoto
Apr 30, 2025 | Filed in Reviews+

Mental Health Awareness Month highlights the importance of mental wellness and promotes advocacy, sharing, compassion, and the dismantling of stereotypes surrounding a wide range of mental health conditions. The following books include contemporary romance, literary fiction, poetry, memoirs, and more, all speaking 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 surrounding a wide range of mental health conditions. The following books include contemporary romance, literary fiction, poetry, memoirs, and more, all speaking to the importance of continued dialogue surrounding mental health. These titles, and those selected from previous years, are available as a downloadable spreadsheet.

Fiction

Blake, Olivie. Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story. Bramble. Oct. 2023. ISBN 9781250888181. 288p. pbk. $18.99 CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Elliott, Alicia. And Then She Fell. Dutton. Sep. 2023. ISBN 9780593473085. 368p. $28. INDIGENOUS Lerner, Betsy. Shred Sisters. Grove. Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780802163707. 272p. $28. HISTORICAL

Rushdi, Sanya. Hospital. Seagull Books. Jun 2023. ISBN 9781803091723. 132p. tr. from Bengali by Arunava Sinha. $21. LITERARY

Wilmot, A.G.A. Withered. ECW. Apr. 2024. ISBN 9781770417038. 344p. pbk. $18.95. HORROR

Nonfiction

Flynn, Nick. Low: Poems. Graywolf. Nov. 2023. ISBN 9781644452592. 112p. pbk. $17. POETRY

Melle, Thomas. The World at My Back. Biblioasis. May 2023. ISBN 9781771964517. 320p. pbk. $16.95. tr. from German by Luise von Flotow. MEMOIR

Parker, Morgan. You Get What You Pay For: Essays. One World. Mar. 2024. ISBN 9780525511441. 224p. $28. ESSAYS

Patrick, Bethanne. Life B: Overcoming Double Depression. Counterpoint. May 2023. ISBN 9781640091290. 208p. $26. MEMOIR

Thorogood, Zoe. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth. Image Comics. Nov. 2022. ISBN 9781534323865. 192p. pbk. $12.99. GRAPHIC NOVEL MEMOIR

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