Mental Health Books
Books addressing mental health portray conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction with care and specificity. These stories normalize conversations about psychological struggle and often depict the messy, nonlinear process of seeking help, coping, and working toward recovery.
51 books
Young Adult
All the Bright Places
Young Adult
Before I Fall
Non-Fiction
Complex PTSD
Contemporary Fiction
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Young Adult
Fangirl
Crime
Franny and Zooey
Freshwater
Memoir
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Young Adult
Girl in Pieces
Girl, Interrupted
Memoir
Heavy
Contemporary Fiction
Hello Beautiful
Comedy
Honey Girl
Young Adult
How to Make Friends with the Dark
Memoir
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Infinite Jest
Comedy
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Non-Fiction
Lessons for Survival
Literary Fiction
Martyr!
Young Adult
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Literary Fiction
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Contemporary Fiction
Normal People
Literary Fiction
Norwegian Wood
Literary Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pretend I'm Dead
Literary Fiction
Queenie
Self-Help
Radical Acceptance
Self-Compassion
Non-Fiction
The Anxious Generation
Literary Fiction
The Bell Jar
Non-Fiction
The Body Keeps the Score
Literary Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
Mystery
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Literary Fiction
The Heart Principle
The Last Days
Self-Help
The Light We Carry
Contemporary Fiction
The Midnight Library
Non-Fiction
The Myth of Normal
Fantasy
The Need
Non-Fiction
The New Me
Contemporary Fiction
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Thriller
The Push
Literary Fiction
Transcendent Kingdom
Trauma and Recovery
Young Adult
Turtles All the Way Down
Veronika Decides to Die
Non-Fiction
Waking the Tiger
Non-Fiction
What Happened to You?
Philosophy
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Young Adult
Wintergirls
Historical Fiction