The Greatest Books of All Time on Depression

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
433 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 1970 American English
456 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
1354 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 American English
1393 The Business of Living Cesare Pavese 1952 Italian Italian
1427 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1930 British English
1574 Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1818 British English
1610 The Hours Michael Cunningham 1998 American English
1651 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 American English
1717 The Clown Heinrich Böll 1963 German German
1954 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Horace McCoy 1935 American English
2002 Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 American English
2197 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 1998 Brazilian Portuguese
2224 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
2340 Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware 2000 American English
2404 A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Peter Handke 1972 Austrian German
2590 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway 1989 British English
2601 Darkness Visible William Styron 1990 American English
2656 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1965 American English
2732 Seize The Day Saul Bellow 1956 American English
2869 The Information Martin Amis 1995 British English
2926 Unless Carol Shields 2002 Canadian English
3089 On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 1969 Swiss English
3172 Oblivion David Foster Wallace 2004 American English
3263 The Days Of Abandonment Elena Ferrante 2002 Italian Italian
3310 Growing Up Russell Baker 1982 American English
3376 Ordinary People Judith Guest 1976 American English
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3547 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 American English
3872 The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
4056 The Tunnel William H. Gass 1995 American English
4568 The Rules Of Attraction Bret Easton Ellis 1987 American English
5508 Now in November Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934 American English
6002 Waiting For Nothing And Other Writings Tom Kromer 1935 American English
6408 Bluets Maggie Nelson 2009 American English
6850 A Little Sun In Cold Water Francoise Sagan 1969 French French
7016 Original Bliss A. L. Kennedy 1997 British English
7215 The City Of The Dreadful Night James Thomson 1880 British English
7811 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
8169 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby 2005 British English
8201 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 2000 British English
8498 Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 2005 American English
9332 Showa 1926-1939 Shigeru Mizuki 2009 Japanese Japanese
9809 Skating To Antarctica Jenny Diski 1997 British English
9907 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
9998 Em And The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto 2012 Indian English
10011 Wonder Boys Michael Chabon 1995 American English
10080 Falling in Place Ann Beattie 1980 American English
10099 A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley 1968 American English
10166 The Pale King David Foster Wallace 2011 American English
10448 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American English
10737 Imagine Me Gone Adam Haslett 2016 American English
10952 The Magicians Lev Grossman 2009 American English
11050 Darius The Great Is Not Okay Adib Khorram 2018 Iranian-American English
11347 The Interestings Meg Wolitzer 2013 American English
11660 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11660 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
11660 Keynes Robert Skidelsky 1983 British English
11939 O'Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer 1973 American English
12324 The Journals Of John Cheever John Cheever 1991 American English
12324 Preston Falls David Gates 1998 American English
13211 Hyperbole And A Half Allie Brosh 2013 American English
13284 Swimming Home Deborah Levy 2011 British English
13941 The Noonday Demon Andrew Solomon 2001 American English
13986 The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 1950 American English
14159 The Great Crash, 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 Canadian English
14232 Journal Of A Solitude May Sarton 1973 American English
14983 Complete Stories Dorothy Parker 1995 American English
15851 The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai 1947 Japanese Japanese
15897 Anybody Can Do Anything Betty MacDonald 1950 American English
17114 Behind The Mask Tyson Fury 2019 British English
17114 The Effect Lucy Prebble 2012 British English
17114 And So It Goes Charles J. Shields 2011 American English
17114 This One Summer Mariko Tamaki 2014 Canadian English
17114 Negative Space B.R. Yeager 2020 American English
17114 About A Boy Nick Hornby 1998 British English
17114 Learned Optimism Martin E.P. Seligman 1990 American English
17114 Reasons To Stay Alive Matt Haig 2015 British English
17114 The Bedwetter Sarah Silverman 2010 American English
17114 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17114 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
17114 Good Reasons For Bad Feelings Randolph M. Nesse 2019 American English
17114 The Mood Cure Julia Ross 2002 Unknown English
17114 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17114 So Sad Today Melissa Broder 2016 American English
17114 Sing Backwards And Weep Mark Lanegan 2020 American English
17114 Hyperbole And A Half & Solutions And Other Problems By Allie Brosh 2 Books Collection Set Allie Brosh 2013 American English
16868 Il Male Oscuro Berto, Giuseppe 1964 Italian Italian