Can anyone recall a book they have read that has an asylum in it?
Can anyone recall a book they have read that has an asylum in it?
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Can anyone recall a book they have read that has an asylum in it?
Shutter island
Beat me to it. ?
An awesome book
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Shiver-by Lisa Jackson. It’s not only in the asylum but the book is great.
I love Lisa Jackson
I haven’t ready many of her books yet, I bought a bunch at a book sale, but from the few i have read she is an incredible writer.
Tifani Hamil I get lost in her books. Before I know it I’m at the end 🙂
Yes! Her writing sucks you in to her world’s in the best ways!
Forgotten room by Lincoln Child
I love Lincoln Child
Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg. It’s a family memoir about Eloise Asylum in Detroit. We read it with my book club.
Final Girls
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
The alienist
Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
^^agreed, soo good!
Girl interrupted by susana kaysan. I haven’t read the book, but liked the movie.
YA fiction-“Lockdown”?
Ten days in a mad house by Nellie Bly
I was just about to ask for a Nelly Bly book. Is it fact or fiction?
@Chantelle she was a journalist and I think it was fact.
Oh, I know Ms. Bly. I wanted to be her, or the next her really. Still do. I was just wondering if it was more of a thesis, Op-ed, or enhanced (fictional) recount of her experience.
I don’t know but I remember when we were kids and we were eves dropping on the adults to get the family gossip, my Mom would call us Nellie Bly and send us outside.
Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Wow thank you all so much. Ive read a couple and really enjoyed them so am looking for more ?
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest – one of my favourite books ever, so good!
Kitchen House has one
The King of Hearts
Just finished one called…..Asylum. It is a series
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
House. Tree. Person. by Catriona McPherson
https://www.amazon.com/House-Tree-Person-Novel-Suspense/dp/0738752169/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521592265&sr=1-1&keywords=house.+tree.+person
Sorry, King of Hearts was a film.
And a very beautiful one.
Yes!
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
Loved that book!
Girl Interrupted and One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest.
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
The Address by Fiona Davis
The Secret Scripture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
I was just going to type That!
@Bonnie great minds think alike!
@CarolAnne ??
the treatment
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Shutter Island
Why has no one mentioned “The Bell Jar?” I’ve not read in it over ten years, but it some to me then.
Hahaha. Great minds!
Prozac Nation, The Bell Jar, and Girl Interrupted
Love Elizabeth Wurtzel!
@Nikhaylah Me too!!!!
Darn. You beat me with Girl, Interrupted.
Why havent you told me about her?
@Aaron – I’m sure I have! – have an essay collection on my shelf of hers called Bitch. Now more and again is brilliant too
Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly … a real life story by a newspaper reporter.
Alias Grace
NORTE
Girl, Interrupted
Veronica decides to die by Paulo Coelho (great book!) and I believe “I never promised you a rose garden” also
I never promised yiu a rose garden has been one of my all time favorites for probably 40 years. Also, Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl. Not sure of the author
Fellside by: Mike Carey
It’s an asylum/prison, but very similar atmosphere.
Z (about Zelda Fitzgerald)
Reading one right now. As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
The Bell Jar
A Madman’s Tale by Katzenbach…. a very good book!
“Norwegian Wood” by Murakami.
The blind by AF Brady
Sybil is one of my favorite books, it’s not in an institution but it has to do with there be multiple personalities and therapy
Song of a captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik
The Bell Jar
Veronika Decides to Die
Shutter Island, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
Outrun the dark
Steve Luxenberg’s
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
What she left behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Excellent and disturbing.
Veronika Decides to Die. Lol just saw that it was already mentioned several times.
What She Left Behind
Annie’s Ghosts
Asylum series
What She Left Behind – great book!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s amazing!
The Snake Pit
The madness of a seduced woman.
Brain on fire has a psychiatric hospital, if I recall.
Good book, true story.
Shutter island.???
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, and I also just finished The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Dracula by Brand Stoker.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Secret Scriptures by Sebastian Barry.
It’s Kind Of Funny Story
What she left behind. Great book!
Girl interrupted and shutter island
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell. Very moving.
Mary: Mrs A Lincoln
Asylum
Love in the Asylum–Lisa Carey
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath and Veronica decides to die by Paulo Coelho
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, of course.
I was just thinking “if no one says Cuckoo’s Nest I will be very upset!”
Just noticed at least two people beat me to it!
Psycho-Robert Bloch
Gracefully Insane by Alex Bea
Lee Smith “Guests on Earth”
The Forgotten Girls by Ariella Steele..gripping till the end.
Blue Asylum
The mad man and the creating of the oxford english dictionary
Shatter Me
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Shutter Island
girl, interrupted
Sandman (Graphic Novel- Vol 1 I think)
Fingersmith
Dracula
One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Yes one of my favs x
It’s kind of a funny story
The secret scripture by Sebastian Barry
I saw that movie recently and it made me so depressed and angry lol
I haven’t seen the movie but the circumstances of the book made me very angry too.
“The Devil in Silver” by Victor LaValle
Girl, Interrupted
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Blue Asylum
The Hospital, sorry can’t remember the author
One by Paulo Coello title is a girl’s name but can’t remember off hand. Read a long time ago
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Sacred Scriptures by Sebastian Barry
firstlife. it’s a series (everlife) by gena showalter. it’s a about a girl who was locked into and asylum by her parents because she wouldn’t sign with an everlife (she had 2 choices).
The Medea Complex
Mara Dyer trilogy
Shutter Island, Asylum series by Madeline Roux
the Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
Asylum by John Harwood.
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Following?
Veronica Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O´ Farrell.
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by Darby Penney
Dracula by Bram Stoker. It has scenes in a mental hospital.
Not an asylum, but institution. Poppet by Mo Hayder
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. I still haven’t completely recovered from reading it.
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
The Unquiet Grave- Sharyn McCrumb
It’s probably been mentioned but One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a classic.
Letters from the Looney Bin is a good collection of short stories set in Mental Institutions
Film – Girl, Interrupted
Insanity by Cameron Jace. I haven’t read it but I want to. It’s an Alice in Wonderland based book.
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
King of Hearts!!!
Shutter Island!!
following
Dracula
Veronica Decides to Die
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26797014-the-ballroom
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden has one and this is an excellent book
When New York’s 120-plus-year-old mental institution Willard State Hospital was closed down in 1995, New York Museum curator Craig Williams found a forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former inmates. This is a great read and very heart touching…and sad to read how people were treated because they were different or troubled.
Great book
I bought this on amazon for my kindle after seeing this post. What a interesting read also, very sad.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest
The Immortal Life of Henriette Lacks
See two I was going to put mentioned already. Would like to read the one Nellie Bly wrote in the early 1900’s when she went under cover in one.
It was very interesting, she got herself committed to an asylum in New York,and was systematically abused.???
Ten Days in A Mad House by Nellie Boy. She got herself admitted to an insane Institution to do expose’ for her newspaper.
@Judith unfortunately when they closed our Mental institution here in Indiana, all the poor subjects inside are now on our streets. When I was on the Police Department we could take a suspected mental person in under what was called a 10-96, and they were evaluated and held for 96 hours. Now it’s bedlam.??
Sad the mentally I’ll deserve better.
@Judith You are ? % right, we used to hate to use force to subdue them, but a lot of time they didn’t respond to stimuli, such as c?
S spray or Tasers.
What She Left Behind
I loved this one!!!
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is set in an asylum.
Mortal Arts by Anna Lee Huber, a Lady Darby Mystery and The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace
Asylum
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29236380
I LOVED this book!!!!
F
Would it be fair if we don’t like a book too either say nothing it sat a reason why we didn’t like it, instead of giving a grade???
@Michael no sorry F means I’m following the link
Zelda
The seamstress
Because of this thread, I just bought a paperback copy of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden for 25¢ at library book store. I had not realized it was about mental illness. Thanks.
Great book- it was required reading when I was in nursing school in the 1960s
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Following for the great recs!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is set in an asylum in 1950s America, if that helps?
Wow so many suggestions. Thank you ?
I agree my amazon wish list is full again xxx
Blue Asylum
Try Guests On Earth by Lee Smith