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An unflinching, intensely personal descent into adolescent despair and the agonizing, courageous climb back to normalcy. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Burn Journals.
- harrowing
- vulnerable
- devastating
- intimate
- 01
Burned
Ellen Hopkins
A raw, rapid-fire exploration of faith, family, and finding your own voice when everything you've been taught feels like a cage.
- 02
Reviving Ophelia
Mary Pipher
A compassionate and urgent exploration of the psychological front lines of girlhood in a toxic culture.
- 03
Tweak
Nic Sheff
A raw, unflinching descent into the chaos of addiction that grips you by the throat and refuses to let go until a final, fragile glimmer of hope.
- 04
Wasted
Marya Hornbacher · 1998
A visceral, unflinching descent into the claustrophobic grip of an eating disorder and the brutal fight to survive it.
- 05
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff · 2008
An unflinching, heart-wrenching descent into the chaos of a loved one's addiction and the agonizing limits of parental rescue.
- 06
A list of things that didn't kill me
Jason Schmidt
A darkly witty and brutally honest memoir about surviving a chaotic, secretive childhood and searching for a moral compass in the wreckage.
- 07
Prozac nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 1994
A torrential, unapologetic plunge into the messy, chaotic reality of coming of age under the crushing weight of clinical depression.
- 08
Jay's Journal
Beatrice Sparks
A sensational, diary-format descent into teenage alienation, occult obsession, and inevitable tragedy.
- 09
A million little pieces
James Frey
A visceral, breathless descent into the hell of addiction and the agonizing, bloody crawl back to life.
- 10
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.
- 11
The chronology of water
Lidia Yuknavitch
A raw, untraditional plunge into grief, fluid sexuality, and the fierce current of survival.
- 12
Suicide notes
Michael Thomas Ford · 2008
A darkly funny, diary-style exploration of healing that strips away a teenager's sarcastic defenses to reveal the tender, hurting kid underneath.
