Read 20 Mental Health Books in 2025

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10 participants (76 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Grow your awareness of mental health issues for yourself and others this year! This challenge can include nonfiction books about any type of mental health issue or how other types of issues impact mental health (e.g. neurodiversity, physical disability or outside circumstances and life events); or fiction books that deal with these topics. 

The books can be as long or as short or as as academic or lighthearted in their approach as you like, as long as it expands/helps your mental health knowledge and engages you in the topic. The idea of this challenge is to feel free to personalise the books to your specific needs/interests within the broader topic of mental health :)

Challenge Books

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Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Heidi #1-2

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

294 pages • 1880 • 426 editions

fiction childrens classics hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin

Attachment in Psychotherapy

David J. Wallin

15h 25m • 2007 • 5 editions

nonfiction psychology informative slow-paced
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone #1

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

415 pages • 2019 • 83 editions

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zaki

Hope for Cynics

Jamil Zaki

7h 52m • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction psychology hopeful informative medium-paced
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter A. Levine

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body

Peter A. Levine

106 pages • 1999 • 8 editions

nonfiction health psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

10h 13m • 2016 • 26 editions

nonfiction philosophy self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

Richard V. Reeves

6h 55m • 2022 • 11 editions

nonfiction economics gender politics psychology self help sociology medium-paced
Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice by

Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice

407 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction psychology religion informative inspiring slow-paced
The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom: Building Resilience with Compassionate Teaching by Patricia A. Jennings

The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom: Building Resilience with Compassionate Teaching

Patricia A. Jennings

224 pages • 2018 • 3 editions

nonfiction education informative medium-paced
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick

8h 51m • 1993 • 10 editions

nonfiction health psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced