Fiction
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon - autism
*Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese - Asperger's syndrome
-Review by The Story Girl
* Life is But a Dream by Brian James - Schizophrenia (Review)
*Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese - Asperger's syndrome
-Review by The Story Girl
* Life is But a Dream by Brian James - Schizophrenia (Review)
Nonfiction
*The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee - brain cancer and metastases
- Review by The Story Girl
* Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey - various mental illnesses
- Review by The Story Girl
* Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey - various mental illnesses
- Review by The Story Girl
Memoir
*Darkness Visible by William Styron - depression
-Review by The Story Girl
* January First by Michael Schofield - schizophrenia (review)
* Living With Jonathan by Sheila Burton - autism (review)
*The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok - head trauma, schizophrenia
- Review by The Story Girl*An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison - bipolar disorder
Eva's List (Unsorted)
This list is compiled courtesy of Eva at The Striped Armchair and it inspired me to read more books about my major. My plan is not to necessarily read all of them, but to at least look at them and consider them for reading. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Asleep by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Phantoms in the Brain by VS Ramachandran
Another Day in the Frontal Love by Katrina Firlik
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Blindsided by Richard M. Cohen
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin and Margaret Scariano
Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes
Life in the Balance by Thomas Graboys
Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows by Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Making an Exit by Elinor Fuchs
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
The Siege by Clara Claiborne Park
Exiting Nirvana by Clara Claiborne Park
Louder than Words by Jenny McCarthy
The Case of the Frozen Addicts by J. William Langston and John Palfreman
Descartes' Error by Antonio Demasio
Making up the Mind by Chris Frith
Head Cases by Michael Paul Mason
Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks
Unstrange Minds by Roy Richard Grinker
A Brain Wider Than the Sky by Andrew Levy
The Forgetting by David Shenk
The Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney
Heartsongs by Mattie Stepane
The Whispering Wall by Patricia Carlson
Night Gardening by E.L. Schwann
The Crazed by Ha Jin
Summer Shift by Lynn Kiele Bonasia
The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Companion by Lorcan Roche
Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows
Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Lost: a novel by Alice Lictenstein
Remember Me by Laurie Hendrie
The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert
Saturday by Ian McEwan
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer
Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer 