Mental Illness Fiction

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.

One sip of courage can pierce through the haze of a mother's unraveling mind. The anniversary of Olivia’s daddy’s death happens to land on the same day the world remembers John Lennon. While TV stations replay Beatles songs, in 1984, Landon, Georgia, Olivia’s mama gets swept back into her own memories—and her behavior grows harder for Olivia to explain away. A chance comment on a talk show flips a switch in Olivia’s mind: Mama might not just be quirky—she might actually be sick. Suddenly, sixteen-year-old Olivia is thrown into an adult world, searching for answers and strength ...

What would you do if your dead sister sent you postcards? I've struggled to get my life back on track after a lifetime of despair, addiction, and loss. I finally have it all. A bustling business, a home, my health, and time with my beloved daughter Sophie. But that tenuous balance is tipped when my twin Jane's postcard arrives in the mail. My family thinks she's dead. They want to put it all behind them. But how can I agree when the evidence is right in front of me? When my nagging little sister provokes my rebellious teenager to run away, I am forced to confront the past I've wanted to ...

Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost): he drums in the All-Star Jazz Band, has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn’t know he’s alive), frequently finds himself sitting across from his school counselor (who bribes him with candy), and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven’s world is turned upside down as he is forced to deal with his brother’s illness, his parents’ attempts to keep the family in one piece, the band, overdue homework, girls, and of course, Dangerous Pie.

New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD, and more. Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn’t much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the “mental illness” label - damaging and devastating on its own - can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need. Brain specialist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel Amen aims to change all that.

Letters From The Looney Bin: The Collection (Books 1 & 2) From the #1 Amazon Bestselling Series Behind the sealed walls of the abandoned Emerson Rose Asylum, madness was never cured—only contained. Until the letters were found. This Collection Edition unites Letters From The Looney Bin—the #1 Amazon psychological fiction sensation—and its hauntingly human sequel, Dear Santa: Letters From The Looney Bin. Together, they expose the confessions, fractured faith, and forgotten humanity of those who vanished without a trace. Discovered inside a decaying mattress during the asylum’s ...

The fascinating, shocking, and ultimately quite hopeful story of one teen’s downward spiral into mental illness by the bestselling author of Tweak andson of David Sheff (author of Beautiful Boy, the memoir adapted into a movie of the same name starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet)...

An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.

When 12-year-old Maddie's older brother vanishes from his college campus, her carefully ordered world falls apart. Nothing will fill the void of her beloved oldest sibling. Meanwhile, Maddie's older sister reacts by staying out late, and her parents are always distracted by the search for Strum. Drowning in grief and confusion, the family's musical household falls silent. Though Maddie is the youngest, she knows Strum better than anyone. He used to confide in her, sharing his fears about the climate crisis and their planet's future.

In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, the immunotherapy her doctors had prescribed worked quickly. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity.

“A suspenseful roller-coaster ride.”—Karin Slaughter “Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense.”—Harlan Coben He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide. On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an...

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

After years of betrayal, silence, and pain, Zaya Stone finally walks away from the man she once thought she’d spend forever with. Her marriage to Jhovan had become a battlefield…filled with manipulation, deceit, and emotional scars too deep to ignore. Signing those divorce papers wasn’t just freedom…it was resurrection. Now, with her children and her dignity intact, Zaya is determined to rebuild her life on her terms. She moves through the world with a new fire, rediscovering her worth, her beauty, and her voice. But when she meets Officer Koda Williams, a quiet, grounded man with ...

They called her mad. But she might be the only one still telling the truth. Inside a cold mental institution where silence is enforced and truth is dismissed, Emily begins to recover memories no one wants her to remember. Labeled unstable, her voice is ignored and her story quietly erased. But buried beneath the diagnosis is something far more dangerous than madness: the possibility that she is right. Told through the mind of an unreliable narrator, Emily: The Girl They Unwrote explores what happens when identity fractures, memory fades, and a woman fights to reclaim her story from those ...

The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death. “A fearless, riveting account of a young woman in the grip of a deadly illness.” —The New York Times Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to...

In her early 20s, investigative journalist Anna Mehler Paperny had already landed her dream job. On the surface, her life was great. Nevertheless, she spiraled out, attempted suicide (the first of more attempts to follow), and landed in the ICU and then in a psych ward before setting out to tackle her recovery. In Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me, Mehler Paperny turns her journalist's eye on her own experience and others' - in the ward; as an outpatient; facing family, friends, and coworkers; finding the right meds; trying to stay insured and employed.

From beloved actor Steve Martin, the bestselling author of Shopgirl, comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love and life in the most unexpected place. "As compassionate as it is funny." —Kirkus Reviews Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a...

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and...

In 15th century England, there are two cousins, both the daughters of dukes, both widowed young, both the mother of sons called Henry. Both are named Margaret Beaufort. One Margaret’s son will be a future King. The other one’s son will be an infamous rebel. The ‘other Margaret Beaufort’ is the daughter of Edmund, Duke of Somerset. Proud and temperamental, Edmund’s bitterest enemy is Richard, Duke of York. Rumours swirl about Edmund—Is he to blame for losing many English territories in France? Is he the true father of Queen Margaret’s baby son, Edward of Westminster? Tensions ...

When Maisie gets into a terrible accident, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant - but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself anymore? She was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student...a normal girl. Now all that has changed. As Maisie discovers how much her looks did - and didn't - shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity and figure out what "lucky" really means.