BOOK RIOT’S 2021 READ HARDER CHALLENGE - hosted by bookriot

Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

430 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

Johann Hari

322 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction psychology self help hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
A Guide To Living With & Training A Fearful Dog by Debbie Jacobs

A Guide To Living With & Training A Fearful Dog

Debbie Jacobs

65 pages • 2010

nonfiction education informative slow-paced
Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

Walking with Ghosts

Gabriel Byrne

6 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Kay Redfield Jamison

240 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective fast-paced
Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

Darius The Great Is Not Okay

Darius The Great #1

Adib Khorram

316 pages • digital • 2018

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

White Smoke

Tiffany D. Jackson

8 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction horror thriller young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Back, After the Break by Osher Günsberg

Back, After the Break

Osher Günsberg

288 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction biography memoir emotional fast-paced
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

274 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays memoir science hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness by Brian Burrell, Allan H. Ropper

How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Brian Burrell, Allan H. Ropper

256 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced