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

All books added
No Such Thing As Normal: What My Mental Illness Has Taught Me About Mental Wellness by Bryony Gordon

No Such Thing As Normal: What My Mental Illness Has Taught Me About Mental Wellness

Bryony Gordon

173 pages • 2021 • 6 editions

nonfiction health self help informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD

Allison Britz

368 pages • 2017 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful sad slow-paced
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker

400 pages • 2020 • 41 editions

nonfiction biography psychology science emotional informative sad medium-paced
Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood by Donna Williams, Cheryl Forrester, Carl Sutton

Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood

Donna Williams, Cheryl Forrester, Carl Sutton

280 pages • 2015 • 2 editions

nonfiction psychology challenging informative slow-paced
Cat's Cafe by Gwen Tarpley

Cat's Cafe #1

Cat's Cafe

Gwen Tarpley

168 pages • 2020 • 3 editions

fiction comics funny lighthearted fast-paced
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Francesc Miralles, Héctor García

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Francesc Miralles, Héctor García

195 pages • 2016 • 139 editions

nonfiction philosophy self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life by Marisa Peer

I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

Marisa Peer

134 pages • 2018 • 1 edition

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
One Cup at a Time by Gwen Tarpley

Cat's Cafe #2

One Cup at a Time

Gwen Tarpley

160 pages • 2022 • 2 editions

fiction comics funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World by Sharon Heller

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

Sharon Heller

370 pages • 2002 • 2 editions

nonfiction health psychology self help informative medium-paced
The Teen's Guide to PDA by Laura Kerbey

The Teen's Guide to PDA

Laura Kerbey

128 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction health middle grade psychology self help