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Sad girl books that are insanely well written but will make you question your sanity
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items Books featuring female characters with mental health struggles. If you relate to these struggles, you see yourself represented in fantastic literature. If you don’t, you learn about something you didn’t understand and that is hard to understand witho...
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Memoirs
One of the best books I’ve ever read and probably one of the most accurate and honest descriptions of severe depression I’ve ever seen in media
Prozac Nation: Wurtzel, Elizabeth
A classic. Watched the movie before I read the book. Book is better, DUH. Interesting to see the perspective and events that occurred during that time period. Love any memoir (or any nonfiction) that includes actual documents.
Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir: Kaysen, Susanna: 9780679746041
I just love Carrie Fisher!!!
Wishful Drinking: Fisher, Carrie
-TRIGGER WARNING SUICIDE-
Sometimes I go in blind on a book with a pretty cover, holy shit this book was incredible. Butler’s memoir of the story of his partner’s suicide. HEARTBREAKING. Very heavy in the first chapter but once you’re past the very ...
Molly by Blake Butler
First of all, so cool that she is the lead singer of Japanese Breakfast, they’re cool. Second of all, the complicated relationship between Michelle and her mother leading to her complicated manifestation of grief makes this an important read for anyo...
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Zauner, Michelle
Interesting perspective to see a professional in psychology and mental illness on the other side of it
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness|Paperback
Fiction
I didn’t love this book as much as I thought I would, but I do love Plath’s writing style and it was objectively very good
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Omg SO good so well written no notes
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
Something about this book was so comforting to read. The descriptiveness of every place and every day and just everything was so comforting idk. Also, an AMAZING depiction of someone with PTSD, as someone with PTSD
Speak - Anderson, Laurie Halse: Books
Yes, I know Charlie is not a sad GIRL, however he is quite sad enough, andddd, his sister was a big part of this book for me, and she in fact certainly was unstable. One of the best books I’ve ever read, hands down.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Chbosky, Stephen
Grabbed this one just from how cute the cover was (different cover than is on here), but it was lovely. Not the most amazing book, but a really nice peak into a young girl struggling with sh’s mind.
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer
Very depressed female protagonist who drowns her sorrows in alcohol. A classic. Love the octopus too lol
Sea Change|Paperback