Books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chief Bromden, a huge Native American patient who pretends to be deaf and mute, watches Randle McMurphy, a charismatic new arrival, take on the ward's tyrannical Nurse Ratched.
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Girl, Interrupted
Kaysen's memoir of the two years she spent at eighteen in McLean Hospital for a borderline diagnosis, told in chips of narrative cut in and out of the case file.
The Devil in Silver
Pepper, a big, hot-tempered moving man, is committed to New Hyde, a psychiatric hospital in Queens, for a seventy-two hour hold after a scuffle with police, and learns that something with a bull's head walks the ward at night.
Love Medicine
The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man with bipolar disorder channels all his manic energy into one goal: reuniting with his ex-wife, fuelled by football and unearned optimism.
Play It as It Lays
Maria Wyeth, a fading actress in late-1960s Los Angeles, drives the freeways all day to keep from thinking about her marriage, her institutionalised daughter and what she cannot make herself feel.
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange widens There There across 150 years, from a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre through an Indian boarding school to the Oakland family still reeling from the powwow shooting.
The Mars Room
Romy Hall, a former stripper at San Francisco's Mars Room club, begins two life sentences at a women's prison in California's Central Valley, and the novel shows the people and system around her.
Faces in the Water
Istina Mavet, a young woman committed to mental hospitals in New Zealand, records the wards, the treatments and the women around her.
The Bell Jar
A young woman's descent into depression in 1950s New York, told with razor wit and suffocating clarity.
Wonder Boys
Over one chaotic weekend, a stalled middle-aged novelist and writing teacher tries to manage a troubled student, a dead dog, a pregnant mistress, and the 2,600-page novel he cannot finish.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
The World According to Garp
T. S. Garp, the son of a famous feminist nurse who conceived him on her own terms, grows up at a New England boarding school, becomes a novelist and spends his life trying to protect his family from a violent world.