Do You Know How Crazy You Sound Right Now?

Books written from the POV of characters in or imminently bound for psychiatric institutions.

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created by Piranesi

last updated June, 2026

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

The Monroe Girls

The Monroe Girls

Antoine Volodine

The Hospital

The Hospital

Ahmed Bouanani

What Kingdom

What Kingdom

Fine GrÄbÞl

Pale Fire

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

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fedelegge

I guess Diary of a madman by Gogol would be too much on the nose for this? Or maybe it fits 😆 It is a short story too

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PiranesiOP

Sounds appropriate to me! I’ll add it to my tbr

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ayzrules

ooooooo such a cool list theme!

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Riel.Belle

Don’t know if it fits, but Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, is a Victorian set novel. Where one character is born and raised in an asylum, and another is wrongfully committed to an asylum. Don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for, but it was a very good book.

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PiranesiOP

this does feel right — i’ll have to check it out

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