May is Mental Health Awareness Month in North America, and the KWL team has put together this list of eighteen books – nine non-fiction, nine fiction, a mix of backlist favourites and new releases! These titles feature the authors themselves and/or their main characters alike being frank in their writing about lived experiences regarding mental health and wellness. Start a new TBR pile with one or more of these titles this month, or grab a copy of each and begin reading today.
Non-fiction and Memoir
- I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
- I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi
- Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- Speak by Tunde Oyeneyin
- Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
- Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
Fiction
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- Dad Jokes & Pine Cones by C.J. Banks
- Suture by Nic Brewer
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
- Heartbreak Symphony by Laekan Zea Kemp
- Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
- The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope by Sam Maggs
- Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stinzi
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
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