Books About Mental Health

Participating in Winter Books & Bites Bingo? Try these books about mental health.

Updated December 17, 2025
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Unshrunk : a story of psychiatric treatment resistance
Delano, Laura
Ebook
One of NPR's 2025 "Books We Love" "Delano's story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully." --Casey Schwartz,...
Notes to John
Didion, Joan
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years....
The tell : a memoir
Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman)
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An astonishing memoir that explores how far we will go to protect ourselves, and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share our stories "The Tell...
A clean mess : a memoir of sobriety after a lifetime of being numb
Jenkins, Tiffany (Motivational speaker)
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The bestselling author of High Achiever chronicles life after addiction-the raw, the dark, and the hilarious-from setting out with nothing but a backpack to discovering her marriage was built on a shakier foundation than she'd ever imagined to...
T-shirt swim club : stories from being fat in a world of thin people
Karmel, Ian
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from his sister, Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and why it's so hard to talk about something so visible. "As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful."--Roxane Gay, author of...
But what will people say? : navigating mental health, identity, love, and family between cultures
Kohli, Sahaj Kaur
Ebook
A Harvard Public Health Best Public Health Book of 2024 "This wonderful book is a compass, a blueprint, a mirror, and a friend. Kohli gives language to what many of us feel but can't yet articulate."--Erika L. Sánchez, New York Times bestselling author of I am Not...

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