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Books like The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

12 books with a reading profile close to The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Lori Gottlieb presents a dual narrative that follows her life as a psychotherapist and as a patient following a personal crisis.
2

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

by Susannah Cahalan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Susannah Cahalan, a young journalist at the New York Post, experienced a sudden descent into psychosis, seizures, and memory loss.
3

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

by Catherine Gildiner

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Catherine Gildiner recounts five singular cases from her twenty-five years as a clinical psychologist, focusing on patients who endured extreme childhood neglect and physical abuse.
4

Coming Clean

by Kimberly Rae Miller

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Kimberly Rae Miller grew up in a home dictated by her father’s chronic hoarding, a secret she concealed from classmates and friends for decades.
5

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

by Christie Tate

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Christie Tate arrives at Dr.
6

Love Warrior

by Glennon Doyle Melton, Glennon Doyle

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Glennon Doyle Melton documents the collapse and rebuilding of her personal life following her husband’s admission of chronic infidelity.
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I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED

by Jennette McCurdy

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Jennette McCurdy recounts her childhood as a professional actor, detailing the control her mother, Debbie, exerted over her career and anatomy.
8

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

by Baek Se-hee

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

This book documents a series of psychiatric consultations between the author and her therapist as she manages dysthymia, a state of persistent, low-grade depression.
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

by James R. Doty

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Part memoir and part scientific inquiry, this book begins with a twelve-year-old James Doty entering a magic shop in Lancaster, California.
10

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Henry Marsh provides a candid account of his decades spent as a consultant neurosurgeon, focusing on the high-stakes reality of intracranial procedures.
11

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson

Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible

Jenny Lawson uses her personal history with clinical depression, anxiety, and autoimmune disorders to detail a philosophy of radical joy.
12

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

by Allie Brosh

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Allie Brosh uses crude MS Paint illustrations and a distinctive narrative voice to catalogue her internal struggles and external mishaps.

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