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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Really Good, Actually
Heisey, Monica.
Paper Book
"Hilarious, heart-warming, wise." -- Paula Hawkins A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman's messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey Maggie is fine. She's...
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
The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The Humans The societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep,...
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...
The silver linings playbook
Quick, Matthew 1973-
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....
This close to happy : a reckoning with depression
Merkin, Daphne
Audiobook
A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute...
Brain on fire : my month of madness
Cahalan, Susannah.
Paper Book
A gripping memoir and medical suspense story about a young New York Post reporter's struggle with a rare and terrifying disease, opening a new window into the fascinating world of brain science. One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a...
I liked my life
Fabiaschi, Abby.
Paper Book
"An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character." --Lisa See,New York Times andUSA Today bestselling author ofSnow Flower and The Secret Fan "I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and...
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....
This close to okay : a novel
Cross-Smith, Leesa 1978-
Paper Book
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller."​ On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way...
Pathological : the true story of six misdiagnoses
Fay, Sarah
Paper Book
AN APPLE BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH "Masterfully written, distinctively researched, deeply humane . . . Genius."--ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead "A major contribution . . . A necessary book."--JOHANN HARI, author of Lost Connections "This book is a triumph of the spirit and...
A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
Riley, Alex (Science writer)
Paper Book
A fascinating, "rich, and generous" (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir. Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range...

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