Reading for Mental Health

A list of current titles to support your mental health.

Mental Health Week is a national celebration in October each year, which centres around World Mental Health Day on 10 October.

Updated September 18, 2025
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
The absent moon : a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression
Schwarcz, Luiz
Paper Book
"A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one." --The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz's brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence--the long echo of...
Why has nobody told me this before?
Smith, Julie
Paper Book
Over 1 million copies sold worldwide! International Bestseller "Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need."--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.