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Some kind of happiness by Claire Legrand
When life gets to be too much, we all have our ways of escaping. For Finley Hart, it's Everwood — a fictional forest kingdom she made up and writes about in her notebooks. As reality and fantasy blend together, Finley realizes that to save the magic of her kingdom, she will also have to save herself. Claire Legrand's magical novel is the perfect blend of fantasy and reality, with a look into depression readers young and old will appreciate. |
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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Neal Shusterman's 2015 National Book Award-winning book is an amazing portrayal of mental health. Caden Bosch thinks he's on a ship bound for Challenger Deep, the southernmost part of the Marianas Trench. But really, he is dealing with schizophrenia, and as his fantasy takes over, his parents are forced to have him committed to a mental institution. A deep and real story, Neal Shusterman shows a deep understanding of not just mental illness but the teenage experience in Challenger Deep. |
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Mosquitoland by David Arnold
In Mosquitoland, David Arnold explores the many ways mental health and mental illness impact those around us. Mary Iris Malone is not OK, and she knows that. Her dad is remarried, her mom is nowhere to be found, and Mim feels like her life is falling apart. Her mother has been living with depression her entire life, and Mosquitoland is Mim's journey to find her way back to her mother, but also to understand her. |
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Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Sophia Kinsella is a hilarious writer and manages to make even social anxiety kind of funny with Finding Audrey. Audrey refuses to leave the house, and she wears big black sunglasses all the time. She panics at the sound of the doorbell ringing, and won't speak out loud to strangers. It seems like things will never get better... then Audrey meets Linus, who is able to help Audrey connect to the outside world one small step at a time. A lighter take on the mental illness experience, Finding Audrey is both hilarious and real. |
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More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
In More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera shines a light on not only the ways teenagers struggle with mental health but how they experience and often struggle with their sexuality. After his father commits suicide, Aaron Soto makes an attempt of his own. When he fails, he is determined to be happier. Or at the very least, more happy than not. He goes so far as to undergo the Lateo procedure to forget the death of his father. But memories begin emerging that show Aaron that he is grappling with more than just grief. |
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Turtles all the way down by John Gree
Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Turtles All the Way Down is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with anxiety. |
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Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Korrham
Darius has never really fit in at home, and he’s sure things are going to be the same when he visits his grandparents in Iran. His clinical depression doesn’t exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Adib Khorram’s brilliant debut is for anyone who’s ever felt not good enough—then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay. |
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Hold Still by Nina LaCour
When Caitlin decides to go through the journal of her best friend Ingrid, who recently committed suicide, she’ll find out that you can’t always see what the people closest to you are feeling. |
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How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox
Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface--normal okay regular fine. She has her friends, her mom, the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything--not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And not about seeing her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. But after what happens on the beach, the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Her dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe--maybe maybe maybe--there's a third way Biz just can't see yet. Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love, grief, and inter-generational mental illness, exploring the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honoring those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea. A book that tackles mental health, depression, sexual identity, and anxiety with beauty and empathy. |
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miles Halter’s whole life has been on big non-event until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed up., Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. Looking for Alaska, is the award-winning debut that brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living and loving. Poignant, funny and heartbreaking, this novel will stay with you forever. |
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