Mental Health Awareness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠🩺

Check out these books from our fiction, nonfiction, and health & fitness sections dealing with mental illness and mental health

Updated March 6, 2025
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Mental Health Awareness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠🩺

Check out these books from our fiction, nonfiction, and health & fitness sections dealing with mental illness and mental health

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Really Good, Actually
Heisey, Monica.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Every sentence of Monica Heisey's writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does." --Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love Recommended by Los Angeles Times * Washington Post *...
How not to fall apart : lessons learned on the road from self-harm to self-care
Van Eijk, Maggy
Paper Book
"She's [Maggy is] really funny . . . If I had a self-destructive young adult in my life . . . this is probably the book I'd get her." --The New York Times Book Review  "How Not to Fall Apart is the book that finally understands...
Notes on a nervous planet
Haig, Matt 1975-
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library. The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Don't miss Matt Haig's new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024 <...
Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
Lawson, Jenny 1973-
Paper Book
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what...
No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America
Powers, Ron
Paper Book
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia--now a documentary directed by Gail Freedman and...
The silver linings playbook
Quick, Matthew
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal....
Brain on fire : my month of madness
Cahalan, Susannah.
Paper Book
An anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the author. ...
What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing
Perry, Bruce Duncan 1955-
Paper Book
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand....
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