Books with Mental Illness | Top 5 Wednesday [10]

Hey guys!

Welcome back to another Top 5 Wednesday! This fun weekly meme was created by Lainey over at GingerReadsLainey. If you want to join in the fun and be apart of the #T5W … you can find all the details at the GoodReads page.

This week’s topic is Top 5 Books with Mental Illness.

This week’s topic is going to be a hard one for me. I haven’t really read too many books with characters that have a mental illness. I’m not the biggest fan of contemporary, therefore my picks all come from books that I have read this year. So let’s just get into it then!

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5. The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

The main character’s brother commits suicide, so there is one instance of mental illness. And because of his death the main character becomes depressed and goes through her own internal struggles with life.

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4. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

I don’t want to give away too much because I don’t want to spoil the book, but let’s just say you find out at the end that one of the main characters Multiple Personality Disorder.

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3. The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson

Now I’m not 100% sure if this book has a mentally ill character, but a character self harms and another one attempts suicide.

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2. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

Two characters come together for a joint suicide pact. Both struggle with severe depression.

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1. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

The main character suffers from different types of mental illnesses which takes both him and her on a wild journey until the end.

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I hope you enjoyed my Top 5 Wednesday this week. So I know there are other great books out there that speak on mental illness and I am hoping I get to learn about them from other Top 5 Wednesdayers. Which books would you have chosen?

Until next time,