526 books
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383 voters
Depression Books
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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as depression)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,230,859 ratings — published 1963
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as depression)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,270 ratings — published 2007
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as depression)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,797 ratings — published 2000
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as depression)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,480,255 ratings — published 2020
Reasons to Stay Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as depression)
avg rating 4.06 — 112,438 ratings — published 2015
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as depression)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,803 ratings — published 1999
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as depression)
avg rating 4.07 — 262,369 ratings — published 2006
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as depression)
avg rating 3.99 — 31,654 ratings — published 1990
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as depression)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,323 ratings — published 1999
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as depression)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,167 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as depression)
avg rating 3.60 — 569,046 ratings — published 2018
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as depression)
avg rating 4.26 — 41,600 ratings — published 2018
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as depression)
avg rating 4.17 — 216,248 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as depression)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,646 ratings — published 1951
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as depression)
avg rating 4.28 — 935,935 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as depression)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,432,278 ratings — published 2017
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as depression)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,781 ratings — published 2015
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as depression)
avg rating 3.64 — 63,992 ratings — published 1994
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as depression)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,105 ratings — published 2007
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as depression)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,067 ratings — published 2018
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as depression)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,918 ratings — published 2015
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as depression)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,880,241 ratings — published 2018
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as depression)
avg rating 3.95 — 279,886 ratings — published 1993
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as depression)
avg rating 3.94 — 257,091 ratings — published 1948
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depression)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,072 ratings — published 1995
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as depression)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,184 ratings — published 1980
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as depression)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,173 ratings — published 2009
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as depression)
avg rating 3.99 — 733,516 ratings — published 1987
The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depression)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,706 ratings — published 2015
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as depression)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,066,043 ratings — published 2024
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depression)
avg rating 3.78 — 415,712 ratings — published 1993
Saving Francesca (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depression)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,376 ratings — published 2003
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depression)
avg rating 3.87 — 48,754 ratings — published 2013
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depression)
avg rating 3.93 — 270,086 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depression)
avg rating 4.07 — 361,656 ratings — published 1892
Veronika Decides to Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depression)
avg rating 3.74 — 243,395 ratings — published 1998
I Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as depression)
avg rating 3.73 — 68,575 ratings — published 2015
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as depression)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,750 ratings — published 2010
Cut (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depression)
avg rating 3.76 — 60,279 ratings — published 2000
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as depression)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,130 ratings — published 2009
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as depression)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,964 ratings — published 1999
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depression)
avg rating 3.21 — 100,840 ratings — published 2018
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depression)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,798 ratings — published 2005
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as depression)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,404 ratings — published 1939
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as depression)
avg rating 4.13 — 545,231 ratings — published 2023
Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depression)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,303 ratings — published 1997
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as depression)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,133,983 ratings — published 2006
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depression)
avg rating 4.25 — 82,652 ratings — published 2007
Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as depression)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,507 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as depression)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,741,712 ratings — published 2012
“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression












