Currently up in the Dana Library for the summer, this exhibit and display offers books from our collections on mental health-related topics. Choose from a variety of novels, memoirs, and non-fiction titles that tackle important themes around mental health, well-being, anxiety, depression, mental illness, disorders, and more.

Summer is the perfect time for lighter reading while you take a break from curriculum work and textbooks. So, stop by the library today!

See the full list of selected books below. Learn more about each by searching them in CatQuest.

Fiction:  

• Daruis the Great is not okay, by Adib Khorram 
• The diagnosis 
• On rotation, by Shirlene Obuobi 
• The book of unknown Americans, by Cristina Henriquez 
• Everything here is beautiful, by Mira Lee 
• The surprise power of a good dumpling, by Wai Chim 
• Imagine me gone, by Adam Haslett 

Non-fiction  

• Happiness, by Time Lomas  
• Notes on a nervous planet, by Matt Haig  
• In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction, by Gabor Mate 
• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a toxic Culture, by Gabor Mate 
• The war of kindness: building empathy in a fractured world, by Jamil Zaki 
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, by Anna Lembke 
• My age of anxiety: fear, hope dread, and the search for peace of mind, by Scott Stossel  
• Black fatigue: how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit, by Mary-Frances Winters  
• Together: the healing power of human connection in a sometimes lonely world, by Vivek Hallegere Murthy 
• Nobody’s normal: how culture create the stigma of mental illness, by Roy Richard Grinker 
• Unwinding Anxiety: new science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind, by Judson Brewer 
• Suicidal: why we kill ourselves, by Jesse Bering 
• No one cares about crazy people: the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America, by Ron Powers 
• It didn’t start with you: how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle, by Mark Wolynn 
• The highly sensitive person: how to thrive when the world overwhelms you, by Elaine Aron 
• How to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence, by Michael Pollan 
• What happened to you?: Conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing, by Bruce D. Perry 
• The creative act: a way of being, by Rick Rubin 
• The body keeps score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, by Bessel A. Van der Kolk 
• Anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, Jonathan Haidt  
• The XX brain: the groundbreaking science empowering women to maximize cognitive health and prevent Alzheimer’s disease, by Lisa Mosconi 
• The highly sensitive person, by Elaine Aron 
• Atomic habits, by James Clear 
• First we make the beast beautiful, by Sarah Wilson 
• Like a boy by not a boy, Andrea Bennett 
• Waiting for an echo, Chirstine Montross 
• The well-gardened mind, by Sue Stuart-Smith 

Memoirs/ Biographies:

• Heavy, by Kiese Laymon 
• A mind spread out on the ground, Alicia Elliott 
• Hello I want to die, by Anna Mehler Paperny 
• On edge, by Andrea Petersen 
• The education of corporal John Musgrave, by John Musgrave 
• What my bones know, Stephanie Foo 
• Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed, by Lori Gottlieb
• Hidden Valley Road inside the mind of an American family, by Robert Kolker
• Gorilla and the bird: a memoir of madness and a mother’s love, by Zack McDermott 
• Little Panic, by Amanda Stern  

Graphic Novel:  

• Flung out of space: inspired by the indecent adventures of Patricia Highsmith, by Grace Ellis 
• Invisible wounds, by Jess Ruliffson 
• Rx: a graphic memoir, by Rachel Lindsay 
• Thin Slices of anxiety: observations and advice to ease a worried mind, by Catherine Lepage 
• Sensory: life on the spectrum: an autistic anthology 
• Trauma is really strange, by Steve Haines 
• Rock steady: brilliant advice from my bipolar life, Ellen Forney 
• Two heads: a graphic exploration of how our brains work with other brains, Uta Frith 
• Everything is ok, by Debbie Tung 
• Psychiatric tales: eleven graphic stories about mental illness 
• Eat, and love yourself, Sweeney Boo 
• Swallow me whole, by Nate Powell 
• Sunny side up, by Jennifer L. Holm 
• The thud, by Mikael Ross 
• The golden hour, by Niki Smith 
• The unwanted: stories of the Syrian refugees, by Don Brown