Mental Health Bookclub discussion

Hello, my fellow readers!

I'm hoping you can help suggest the next group read.
I'm on the hunt for books that will absolutely wreck us, but in that beautiful, cathartic way that only a truly powerful story can.

I'm searching for your best recommendations for books that are heartwrenching, haunting, or psychologically thrilling. Specifically, I’m looking for stories that have mental health representation. I want to read about characters grappling with grief, trauma, depression, or the complexities of the human mind in a way that feels profound and real.

My one main rule for this is: please, no happy books! I'm looking for stories that don't pull their punches. Endings that are poignant, bittersweet, or even tragic are exactly what I'm searching for. I want a book that will make me think, feel deeply, and stick with me long after I've turned the final page.

Ready for a good cry and a great story.🖤

NB: happy reads go here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This is the ASIN of a short story I wrote: B0DPXKKJZT.
Give the sample a read, I hope it will thrill you.
The end of it I could say is bittersweet, it is life, real, so bitter or sweet, as you are seeing it in that moment.
The title is The Wave by Lost Surfer.
I don't know if you have ever been in the mental health conditions, this short story represents it.

Any Kathleen Glasgow book honestly, *especially* Girl in Pieces :)

I would be honoured if you would consider reading Not the Perfect Victim. It was just published September 2025.

In Case of Emergency, Break Childhood. A Gen X story of childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and addiction. Tons of crying and tons of laughing. 🥲😂

I loved “I know this much is true” by Wally Lamb.

1. The silent patient by Alex Michaelides about a psychotherapist who becomes obsessed with a patient.

2. "Flowers for Algernon" is a science fiction story by Daniel Keyes, first published in 1959, about a mentally disabled man named Charlie Gordon who undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence.