Books like Walking naked by Alyssa Brugman

A coming‑of‑age epistolary novel that follows introverted teen Charlie through his freshman year in a 1990s Pittsburgh suburb as he navigates high school, friendship and the challenges of adolescence.

When Clay Jenkins discovers 13 tapes left by his classmate Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, he must confront the 13 reasons that drove her to end her life—one of which is him.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Turtles All the Way Down follows sixteen‑year‑old Aza Leonard, who battles obsessive‑compulsive disorder while searching for her missing friend and confronting the pressure to fit in at high school.

Two teens on the brink of heartbreak and despair find an unlikely friendship that turns their worlds upside‑down, teaching them that hope can bloom even beside the darkest thoughts.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

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it's a debut young-adult novel by Jasmine Warga

A high‑school girl suspects her best friend’s death was murder and digs for truth amid secrets, friendship bonds, and teenage betrayal.

Sixteen‑year‑old Vicky Cruz awakens in Lakeview Hospital’s mental ward after a suicide attempt and must navigate recovery while forming unexpected bonds with patients and staff.

When a Facebook classmate's cruel comments drive 15‑year‑old Lara to a suicide attempt, the ripple effect forces her sister, former best friend, and classmates to confront the painful truths of bullying, social media, and family bonds.

A touching YA story of grief and renewal as Caitlin confronts her best friend’s suicide, finds new love, and discovers that true friendship endures beyond loss.

A New York City teen’s struggle with depression is told with irreverent humor, charting his day‑to‑day life and his time in a psychiatric hospital.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

A high-school senior's attempt to help a friend facing weight loss and self-perception issues.

After the death of his best friend, Sharkey spends a summer on an abandoned beach resort island, where his dad is caretaker, as he tries to cope with grief and unanswered questions.

After her mother’s death, adolescent Gaia Moore seeks refuge with Mrs. Moss while her father remains on a mysterious mission. Facing grief, budding romance, and a reappear­ing uncle, she uncovers a spy‑laden adventure.

When a boy fascinated by fashion becomes a target at school, his world shifts after meeting an athletic classmate and a ghost named Jessica who, unaware of her death, brings unexpected friendship and adventure.

London 1976, Lili Garcia fights love and fame as she plays bass in a punk band, while her new guitarist William Bonney from Northern Ireland challenges her to find what she truly wants amid danger and secrets.

A young gay teenager in North Carolina navigates love, family opposition and a painful secret, revealing the costs of truth and the power of friendship.