What to Read After Mad, Bad and Sad
Readers who loved Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mad, Bad and Sad is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mad, Bad and Sad
The female malady
Women & madness
Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
Psychoanalysis
Doctoring the mind
Opening Skinner's Box
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters
Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
The two kinds of decay
Ten days in a mad-house
The suicidal mind
Crazy like us
Hystories
The Terror Dream
The loony-bin trip
For her own good
Unbearable weight
Disturbances of the mind
Mad in America
The Technology of Orgasm
Mrs Keppel and her daughter
Bedlam
The female eunuch
Living dolls