Can anyone suggest good fictional novels that talks about mental illness?
Can anyone suggest good fictional novels that talks about mental illness? ?? I need some lighthearted books with a good message
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All the bright places by Jeniffer Niven
Either Furiously Happy or Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Larson. She will lift your spirits!
I’ve heard that Turtles all the Way Down by John Green is good. The character has OCD I think.
I’ve never read anything about OCD before , this book will be interesting, will start it after I finish the one I’m reading now??
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
OOH, just read your post properly- these books are hardly uplifting!
Will add them to my list ?I’ve heard a lot about the first one and I’m curious to read Virginia Woolf’s work
@Hend Mrs Dalloway and Orlando are the only two of Woolfs work that I’ve ever enjoyed.
Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31434883-eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine
Omg I read it in August and it’s honestly one of my all time favorite novels ?❤❤ seeing your comment suggesting it made me so happy
Good call. I loved it..
I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Girl Interrupted. I Know this Much is True.
Running with Scissors ✂️
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Though not specifically about mental illness, I always read The Humans by Matt Haig as an allegory of depression. He also has two wonderful non-fiction books called Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet that are personal and moving and uplifting and I can’t recommend them enough.
A Beautiful Mind
Willow by Julia Hoban – cutting
I’m reading Furiously Happy at the moment, and enjoying it a lot.
Loved that one
Entangled by Cat Clarke. I also second Jenny Larson’s Furiously Happy.