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Below you will find fiction books that touch on mental health topics/feature characters struggling with mental health.

Darkness Visible by William Golding
Call Number: 823.914 G619D

Topic: Depression
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Call Number: 811.54 P718b2
It's Not You, Geography, It's Me by Kristy Chambers
ISBN: 9780702253034

Publication Date: 2014-09-24
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne. Greenberg
Call Number: 813.54 G798I

ISBN: 9780451211200

Publication Date: 2004-02-03
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse; Basil Creighton (Translator)
Call Number: 833.91 H587ST

ISBN: 9780312278670

Publication Date: 2002-12-06
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Call Number: 813.54 L218I

ISBN: 9780060391621

Publication Date: 1998-06-03
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
ISBN: 9780316769532

Publication Date: 1951-07-16
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Call Number: 813.6 B471v

ISBN: 9780525536291

Publication Date: 2020-06-02
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Call Number: 813.54 M883g

ISBN: 9780307594174

Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
ISBN: 9781594205712

Publication Date: 2014-06-26
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Call Number: 813.6 H263T

ISBN: 9781934137123

Publication Date: 2009-01-01

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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: J 813.6 R463L

ISBN: 9781481438254

Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Call Number: J 813.6 M133m

ISBN: 9781250780362

Publication Date: 2021-08-17
(Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen
Call Number: J 616.89 J54d

ISBN: 9781616207816

Publication Date: 2018-10-02

Below you will find non-fiction books written by authors who struggled with mental health and talk about their experiences.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Call Number: 616.85 V234b

ISBN: 9780670785933

Publication Date: 2014-09-25
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
Call Number: 616.89 S158c

ISBN: 9781401301385

Publication Date: 2007-08-14
Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky
Call Number: 811.54 B576p

ISBN: 9781451693201

Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Darkness Visible by William Styron
ISBN: 9780394588889

Publication Date: 1990-08-18

Depression
Suicidal Tendencies
Next to Nothing by Carrie Arnold; Timothy B. Walsh
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Full Lives by Lindsey Hall (Editor)
Call Number: 616.8526 H177F

ISBN: 9780936077260

Publication Date: 1993-09-03
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Call Number: 616.8527 S698N

ISBN: 9780684854670

Publication Date: 2002-04-02
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
ISBN: 9781328663047

Publication Date: 2019-04-02
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Call Number: 616.895 J32U

ISBN: 9780679443742

Publication Date: 1995-09-05
Madness by Marya Hornbacher
Call Number: 616.895 H814M

ISBN: 9780618754458

Publication Date: 2008-04-09
Darkness Visible by William Styron
Call Number: 616.8527 S938D

ISBN: 9780394588889

Publication Date: 1990-08-18
Nobody's Normal by Roy Richard Grinker
Call Number: 616.89 G867n

ISBN: 9780393531640

Publication Date: 2021-01-26

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