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A hilarious, unfiltered, and deeply vulnerable dispatch from the psych ward that feels like a late-night conversation with your most sarcastic friend. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Get Well Soon.
- intimate
- quirky
- emotionally raw
- claustrophobic
- 01
Cut
Patricia McCormick
A quiet, piercing look inside a fractured mind slowly finding the courage to speak.
- 02
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini
A candid, surprisingly funny exploration of teenage depression and the unexpected moments of light found within a psychiatric hospital.
- 03
I never promised you a rose garden
Hannah Green
A harrowing but profoundly empathetic descent into the labyrinth of severe mental illness and the courageous climb back to reality.
- 04
The earth, my butt, and other big, round things
Carolyn Mackler
A funny, fiercely honest journey of a girl learning to stop shrinking and start taking up the space she deserves.
- 05
I never promised you a rose garden
Joanne Greenberg · 1964
A harrowing but deeply compassionate descent into the labyrinth of a fractured mind and the grueling, courageous climb back to reality.
- 06
Impulse
Ellen Hopkins
A raw, rapid-fire descent into the fractured minds of three teens fighting to survive their own darkest impulses.
- 07
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
Julie Anne Peters
A raw, unflinching look into the mind of a girl at the edge of her endurance, anchored by the fragile hope of unexpected human connection.
- 08
Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur · 2009
A quiet, deeply moving exploration of a young girl piecing her shattered world back together through letters and love.
- 09
Girl, interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
A razor-sharp, fragmented descent into the parallel universe of a 1960s psychiatric ward that questions the very nature of sanity.
- 10
Every last word
Tamara Ireland Stone
An intimate, poetry-infused exploration of the exhausting performance of normalcy and the quiet salvation of finding your people.
- 11
The best little girl in the world
Steven Levenkron
A claustrophobic and urgent psychological portrait of a teenager's desperate quest for control.
- 12
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
A raw, biting, and deeply internal journey through the suffocating weight of trauma and the hard-won triumph of finally finding the words to fight back.
