Books like Heart Berries
12 books with a reading profile close to Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
In this memoir, William Styron documents his descent into a paralyzing clinical depression that began during a trip to Paris in 1985.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
by Olivia Laing
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
After moving to New York City and experiencing a period of intense isolation, Olivia Laing investigates the social and psychological mechanics of loneliness through the lens of twentieth-century American art.
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Lucy Grealy describes her childhood diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma and the subsequent removal of much of her jawbone.
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Le Consentement
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
In this memoir, Vanessa Springora details her relationship as a thirteen-year-old girl with the celebrated writer Gabriel Matzneff, who was then fifty.
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Girl, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Susanna Kaysen recounts her eighteen-month stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, after a suicide attempt and a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 1967.
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Kay Redfield Jamison provides a clinical and personal account of living with manic-depressive illness while maintaining a career as a professor of psychiatry.
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Alison Bechdel reconstructs her childhood lived inside a meticulously restored Victorian mansion that doubled as the family-run funeral home.
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The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Published in 1995, Mary Karr’s memoir recreates her volatile childhood in the 1960s within a gritty East Texas oil town.
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9
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Alison Bechdel follows her previous memoir about her father with this investigation into her relationship with her mother, Helen.
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10
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Joan Didion documents the first twelve moon cycles following the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne.
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How to Say Babylon
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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In the Dream House
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
In this memoir, Carmen Maria Machado documents her experience in a psychologically and physically abusive same-sex relationship.
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