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The 20 Greatest Memoirs of Mental Illness

The Bell Jar is way more intense than Running With Scissors. This is a stupid list.

weareallmental:

crossing out the ones I’ve read.

  1. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  2. Hurry Down Sunshine by Micheal Greenberg
  3. Blue Genes by Christopher Lukas
  4. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  5. Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
  6. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
  7. Just Checking by Emily Colas
  8. Darkness Visible by William Styron
  9. Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell
  10. Unholy Ghost edited by Nell Casey
  11. The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller with Amanda Bennett
  12. Musical Chairs by Jen Knox
  13. Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
  14. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
  15. Electroboy by Andy Behrman
  16. Sickened by Julie Gregory
  17. When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase
  18. A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
  19. Lucky by Alice Sebold
  20. Stalking Irish Madness by Patrick Tracey

I can’t believe how many of these I have yet to read!!!!

(Source: mollyinrecovery, via fuckyeahreading)

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    The Bell Jar is way more intense than Running With Scissors. This is a stupid list.
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    power, people. Seriously.
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    ones I’ve read....looks like i need to get busy. half.com, here i come. seriously though,...
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