Madness


The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Bell Jar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Girl, Interrupted
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Fight Club
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WGunpowder Soup by Karl WigginsWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins
Weird Titles
154 books — 27 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Descent Into Madness Books
91 books — 56 voters

Cognitive Confusions by Ita MacCarthySynthetic Mania by H.G. WoodleyLife Writing and Schizophrenia by Mary Elene WoodFrom Under the Cloud; or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity by Anna AgnewThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Crazy Tan
107 books — 4 voters
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
189 books — 95 voters

Matt Haig
Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if ...more
Matt Haig, The Humans

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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