Each of the 20 participating libraries in the Mental Health Initiative will receive this complete set of books, which contains 66 titles / 78 books. In addition, three titles have been selected as featured reads and compliment the monthly themes for training sessions January – March 2020. Participating libraries will receive five copies of the titles, which are noted below. The featured title for April 2020 will be selected by the participating libraries, and may or may not be a title on this list.
Thank you to everyone who contributed title and subject suggestions. If you have suggestions for the Mental Health Initiative booklist for 2021 (pending funding), please contact us.
| January – Understanding Trauma: Library as Protective Factor  |
February – Trauma Stewardship
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March – Connecting to Community: Outreach & Partnerships |
| Title | Author |
| (don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health | Jensen, Kelly |
| The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul | Van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura |
| Are U Ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health | Morton, Kati |
| The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters | Parker, Priya |
| Bad Day | Roth, Ruby ; Roth, Ruby |
| Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief | Cacciatore, Joanne ; Rubin, Jeffrey |
| Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America’s Mental Health Crisis | Rosenberg, Kenneth Paul |
| Being Edie Is Hard Today | Brashares, Ben ; Bergeland, Elizabeth |
| The Big Angry Roar | Lambert, Jonny ; Lambert, Jonny |
| The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide, Third Edition: What You and Your Family Need to Know | Miklowitz, David J |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Van Der Kolk, Bessel |
| The Boy with the Butterfly Mind | Williamson, Victoria |
| Brain Health as You Age: A Practical Guide to Maintenance and Prevention | Simmons, Steven P, MD ; Mansbach, William E ; Lyons, Jodi L |
| The Brain Storm | Ragsdale, Linda ; Molina, Claudio |
| Brave Face: A Memoir | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
| Brave Molly: (empowering Books for Kids, Overcoming Fear Kids Books, Bravery Books for Kids) | Boynton-Hughes, Brooke |
| Calm with the Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle, Eric ; Carle, Eric |
| Challenger Deep | Shusterman, Neal ; Shusterman, Brendan |
| The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays | Wang, Esme Weijun |
| The Color of My Mind: Mental Health Narratives from People of Color | Vargas, Dior ; Lab, Dugud |
| Coral | Ella, Sara |
| Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness | Styron, William |
| Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression | Wong, Teresa |
| The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity | Harris, Nadine Burke |
| The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia | Sardy, Marin |
| The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Morris, David J |
| The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children (Revised) | Greene, Ross W |
| Fergal and the Bad Temper | Starling, Robert |
| The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality | Johnson, Kimberly Ann |
| Freedom from Family Dysfunction: A Guide to Healing Families Battling Addiction or Mental Illness | Perlmutter, Kenneth |
| The Goldfish Boy | Thompson, Lisa |
| The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness | Cahalan, Susannah |
| Hey, Kiddo (National Book Award Finalist) | Krosoczka, Jarrett J |
| How It Feels to Float | Fox, Helena |
| Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Original) | Brosh, Allie |
| I Will Be Fierce | Birdsong, Bea ; Chanani, Nidhi |
| It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand | Devine, Megan ; Nepo, Mark |
| Lighter Than My Shadow | Green, Katie ; Green, Katie |
| Little & Lion | Colbert, Brandy |
| Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life | Stern, Amanda |
| Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope | Hari, Johann |
| Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir | Forney, Ellen |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed | Gottlieb, Lori |
| The Memory of Light | Stork, Francisco X |
| The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care | Borges, Anna |
| My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope | Guerrero, Diane ; Moroz, Erica |
| My Heart and Other Black Holes | Warga, Jasmine |
| My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir | Lukach, Mark |
| The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Solomon, Andrew |
| Notes on a Nervous Planet | Haig, Matt |
| On a Scale of One to Ten | Scott, Ceylan |
| Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | Grimes, Nikki |
| Own Your Self: The Surprising Path Beyond Depression, Anxiety, and Fatigue to Reclaiming Your Authenticity, Vitality, and Freedom | Brogan, Kelly |
| The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact | Heath, Chip ; Heath, Dan |
| Ptsd | Singelin, Guillaume |
| Reasons to Stay Alive | Haig, Matt |
| The Secret Lies Within: An Inside Out Look at Overcoming Trauma and Finding Purpose in the Pain | Beiler, Anne ; Sutherland, Emily |
| Small Things | Tregonning, Mel |
| This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression | Kleiman, Karen R ; Raskin, Valerie Davis |
| Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror | Herman, Judith L |
| Under Pressure: The Science of Stress | Lloyd Kyi, Tanya ; Tremblay, Marie-Eve |
| An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness | Jamison, Kay Redfield |
| Where the Watermelons Grow | Baldwin, Cindy |
| Why is Dad So Mad? | Kastle, Seth |
| Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma | Stanley, Elizabeth A ; Van Der Kolk, Bessel |