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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as madness)
avg rating 4.06 — 392,709 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,332,416 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as madness)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,724 ratings — published 1962
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as madness)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,066 ratings — published 1961
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as madness)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,490 ratings — published 1966
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,743 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 329,570 ratings — published 1962
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as madness)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,746 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 294,674 ratings — published 1993
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 440,621 ratings — published 1959
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,610 ratings — published 1990
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,706 ratings — published 1960
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as madness)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,213 ratings — published 1964
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,376 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,321 ratings — published 1996
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as madness)
avg rating 3.65 — 471,524 ratings — published 2007
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,096,946 ratings — published 1601
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,690 ratings — published 1991
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as madness)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,422 ratings — published 2007
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 3.91 — 245,125 ratings — published 1605
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as madness)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,784,590 ratings — published 1977
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,431,223 ratings — published 1847
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.44 — 379,248 ratings — published 2019
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,206 ratings — published 2019
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,366 ratings — published 1955
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,173,081 ratings — published 1866
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,092 ratings — published 1605
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,061,700 ratings — published 1623
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 3.38 — 190,980 ratings — published 1898
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as madness)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,722 ratings — published 2002
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as madness)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,935 ratings — published 1899
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.23 — 133,637 ratings — published 1843
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,303 ratings — published 1887
Faces in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,852 ratings — published 1961
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 592,110 ratings — published 1985
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,735 ratings — published 1994
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as madness)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,344 ratings — published 2000
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.58 — 631,864 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.16 — 266,048 ratings — published 1864
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.95 — 814 ratings — published 2015
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,031,596 ratings — published 1818
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 116,301 ratings — published 1984
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535,952 ratings — published 1969
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,855 ratings — published 1961
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,006 ratings — published 2008
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.99 — 91,571 ratings — published 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as madness)
avg rating 3.83 — 708,106 ratings — published 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,028,378 ratings — published 1890
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.57 — 165 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as madness)
avg rating 4.19 — 603,009 ratings — published 2020
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
― The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
― The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
