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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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Janina Fisher

14h 40m • 2016 • 9 editions

nonfiction psychology self help challenging informative slow-paced
Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

Why Does He Do That?

Lundy Bancroft

13h 32m • 2002 • 23 editions

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nonfiction feminism psychology challenging informative medium-paced
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

10h 3m • 2022 • 25 editions

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
My kobiety z ADHD. Atypowe. Neuroróżnorodne. Wspaniałe. by Aleksandra Pflumio

My kobiety z ADHD. Atypowe. Neuroróżnorodne. Wspaniałe.

Aleksandra Pflumio

224 pages • 2024 • 1 edition

nonfiction education psychology self help
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Kay Redfield Jamison

240 pages • 1995 • 31 editions

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective fast-paced
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

50 pages • 1887 • 100 editions

nonfiction history memoir psychology dark informative sad fast-paced
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There by Tara Schuster

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

Tara Schuster

11h 43m • 2020 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir self help funny inspiring medium-paced
Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Girlhood

Melissa Febos

8h 13m • 2021 • 13 editions

nonfiction essays feminism gender memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

Mel Robbins

10h 38m • 2024 • 23 editions

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

386 pages • 2017 • 147 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional funny hopeful medium-paced