Books with main characters that slowly (or suddenly) spiral into madness.
created by itslara
last updated February, 2026
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Viviane Élisabeth Fauville
Julia Deck
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin
The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories
Nikolai Gogol
The Mustache
Emmanuel Carrère
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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