Can Anyone Tell Me Of Some Good Books Set In Mental Asylums?
I’ve just finished reading Shutter Island (which I highly recommend as it’s the only book I’ve ever bothered to go back and read a second time) but it’s left me feeling hungry for something similar.
Not bothered about what date it is set in but would prefer it to be fictional.
Here are some books which might help you!TRy it out!
1.Asylum – Patrick McGrath
2.When Nietzsche Wept – Irvin D. Yalom
3.The Blackstone Chronicles – John Saul
4.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
5.Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
6.I Never Promised You a Rose Garden-by Hannah Green
7.Lisa, Bright and Dark- by John Neufeld
Lisa Shilling is a 16-year-old who is suffering from a mental breakdown. She walks hunched over, she yells at her friends to “just stop it” when they were innocently dancing at a party; she whispers her answer in the teacher’s ear instead of speaking before the class. Her verbalizations become increasingly bizarre and her behavior more erratic and unstable. She tells her parents and 12-year-old sister that she is going crazy, but they brush her concerns aside. In one memorable blunder on her parents’ part, they send her to a nursing home in Florida during winter break with the idea of sweeping her bizarre behavior under the rug without “the neighbors finding out.”
I hope these might have helped you!!!!!!!
All the best!
Instead of looking for another book with similar subject matter (since this one was so good), I’d recommend you try another book by the same author. Dennis Lehane is hard to beat, and he’s written several books. Have you read Mystic River? It’s excellent too.http://www.dennislehanebooks.com/
okay well this book isn’t set in an insane asylum, but the characters in it need to be.
it’s called Double Identity
by:Margaret Peterson Haddix
it’s a really short book i read it in a couple days.
but it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time.
hope you read it.
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho is really good and they’re making a film!
Girl interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Its a true story but it is v v good.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest or Girl Interrupted. I know they are films but the books are so much better!
The Bell Jar
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest