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
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 * GQ * Elle * Good Morning America...
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...
The silver linings playbook
Quick, Matthew 1973-
Paper Book
Why did NPR's popular librarian Nancy Pearl pickThe Silver Linings Playbook as one of summer's best reads for 2009? "Aawww shucks!" Pearl said. "I know that's hardly a usual way to begin a book review, but it was my immediate response to finishing Matthew Quick's heartwarming...
This close to happy : a reckoning with depression
Merkin, Daphne
Paper Book
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 understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has...
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...
Back from the brink : true stories and practical help for overcoming depression and bipolar disorder
Cowan, Graeme.
Ebook
On July 24th, 2004, author Graeme Cowan took pen to paper and said goodbye to his family. "I just can't be a burden any longer," he wrote. After four failed suicide attempts, and a five-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated, Cowan set...
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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