The 8 books on this stack
Tap “Want to read” on the ones that catch your eye. No account needed, we'll keep them for you.
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Susanna Kaysen 1994
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · sad, and in no hurry
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
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Jasper DeWitt 2020
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · told in letters, diaries or messages
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum, miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and…
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Torcuato Luca de Tena 1983 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · a place nobody can leave
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
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Sebastian Barry 2008
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure.
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Patrick McGrath 1998
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · a place nobody can leave
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane.
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Ken Kesey 2005
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · fierce and defiant
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Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat…
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Dennis Lehane 2003
Why it's on the stack
You read it holding your breath · a twist at the end that changes everything
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a…
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Alex Michaelides 2018
Why it's on the stack
It won't tell you everything at once · a twist at the end that changes everything
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most…