2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Mad Studies


Mad Studies Books

Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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Slingshot by Cyrée Jarelle JohnsonWATCHNIGHT by Cyrée Jarelle JohnsonQDA by Raymond LuczakThe Deaf Poets Society, Issue 3 by Ava C. CipriThe Deaf Poets Society, Issue 1 by Ava C. Cipri
crip poetics
70 books — 1 voter
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangLittle Panic by Amanda SternInferior by Angela Saini
Women & the Politics of Pain (College of Wooster)
3 books — 2 voters

Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...All the Weight of Our Dreams by Lydia X.Z. BrownHow to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by LaMarr Jurelle BruceBorderlands / La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaZami by Audre Lorde
Critical Mad Studies and Mad/Crip of Colour Critique
26 books — 6 voters