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A book with a mental illness, as part of the Extreme Reader Challenge

Whether you are participating in the Tacoma Library Extreme Reader Challenge or not, read a book with a mental illness.

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97 items

  • Trials of Passion

    Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness

    Appignanesi, Lisa,
    Non-Fiction
    BookNew York : Pegasus Crime, 2015. — 364.1523 AP49T 2014
  • Fiction
    BookPortland, Or. : Tin House Books, 2012. — F AUBRY-G
  • The Girl on the Velvet Swing

    Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

    Baatz, Simon,
    Non-FIction
    BookNew York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 364.1523 B112G 2018
  • He Wanted the Moon

    the Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him

    Baird, Mimi
    Non-FIction
    BookNew York : Crown Publishers, [2015] — 616.895 B163H 2015
  • Teen Fiction
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, [2017] — YF BOWMA-A
  • Patient H.M.

    a Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets

    Dittrich, Luke,
    Non-FIction
    BookNew York : Random House, [2016] — 616.85232 D639P 2016
  • Marbles

    Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me : a Graphic Memoir

    Forney, Ellen,
    Non-Fiction
    BookNew York : Gotham Books, 2012. — GN 616.895 FORNEY 2012
  • Damnation Island

    Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-century New York

    Horn, Stacy,
    Non-Fiction
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. — 362.210974 H7834D 2018
  • Agnes's Jacket

    a Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness

    Hornstein, Gail A., 1951-
    Non-FIction
    BookNew York : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009. — 616.89 H7849A 2009
  • A Curious Madness

    An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and An Unsolved Mystery From World War II

    Jaffe, Eric
    Non-Fiction
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2014. — 952.04092 J1804C 2014
  • Non-Fiction
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2009] — 811.54 K1486L 2009